Together for good
Dear ER:
We all keep saying that CenterCal is only in it for the money, that they don’t care about the residents of Redondo and are only looking out for themselves. That often happens with developers, but if that were true in this case, why would CenterCal be spending so much money to sponsor the community events that we all cherish?
I constantly see CenterCal supporting events like the Redondo Beach Summer Concert Series and Redondo Beach Lobster Festival and donating to local charities such as the Redondo Cancer Support Foundation and Redondo Educational Foundation.
CenterCal wants The Waterfront Project to succeed because they want Redondo to succeed. They see potential in our city, and have a vision with the means to turn it into a reality. The Waterfront Project is truly about family and community, two qualities that are essential to the city’s residents.
Now it’s our turn to band together as a community and stand behind The Waterfront Project.
Chris Voisey
Redondo Beach
Not so good
Dear ER:
The corner of Pacific Coast Highway and Palos Verdes Boulevard – the site of the former Bristol Farms and the Palos Verdes Inn — is no thing of beauty. A reasonable proposal for its development would be welcome. However, Legado Companies has proposed a three- and four-story, mixed-use development consisting of 180 apartments, 37,600 square feet of commercial space, renovation of the Palos Verdes Inn, inadequate underground parking, and minimal above-ground parking. Legado’s proposal requires receiving a “density bonus” from the city as well as a waiver of development standards for the height. CalTrans estimates the increase in traffic at over 2,600 cars/day at this already congested intersection.
Joyce Neu
Redondo Beach,
Good to meet you
Dear ER:
Campaigning Redondo Beach Council District 3 was a unique and rewarding experience. I want to thank those that voted for me, my wonderful volunteers, and everyone that contributed to my campaign financially and through emotional support. The walking of the district allowed me to meet wonderful people with great life stories that I will never forget. Additionally, new friendships were made. Also, I want to thank my opponents for taking their time to campaign for the opportunity to serve the City of Redondo Beach. I encourage voters to go to the polls again in May to cast their votes in the District 4 runoff election. I wish Candace Nafissi and Christian Horvath the best in each of their campaigns.
Sandy Marchese
Redondo Beach
Pivotal vote
Dear ER:
Thank you to the Redondo voters who supported me in the District 3 City Council race. I am honored and humbled that you trust me to work toward making Redondo Beach the best it can be. Since none of the 5 candidates received more than 50 percent of the votes, I will be in a runoff election with Christian Horvath, on May 12.
The residents of District 3 have a pivotal decision to make. The policies that the next representative of this district brings to the Council will be the swing vote on key decisions regarding development in our beloved City. Two Council Members and the Mayor represent pro overdevelopment residents who supported Measure B, who also support CenterCal’s plan. Council Members Brand and Sammarco actively opposed Measure B, favoring a revitalization of King Harbor of reasonable size. The District 3 Council Member will either swing Council support in favor of overdevelopment and more traffic, or align with Brand and Sammarco, who better understand that we want the Harbor revitalized without a power plant, and without ruining our quality of life to get there.
Just as I have done when I listened to your concerns when we as a community opposed measure B, I will honor your concerns regarding traffic, over development and density. I would like to invite you to “Connect with Candace” on March 22 from 9-11am at Starbucks on 190th and Anza. For more information check out my website at CandaceForCouncil.com.
Candace Allen Nafissi
Redondo Beach
What would Socrates say
Dear ER
iPads were stolen from a Manhattan Beach middle school (“59 iPads stolen from Pacific Elementary, E.R. January 29, 2015). High School students in El Segundo are required to purchase insurance for their iPads. Since the time of Socrates, it has been apparent that the only thing required to study is a flat surface. There is no reason to provide kids with expensive electronics to study. Let’s remember that entitlements permeate society all the way to the upper class (or upper middle class, as they refer to themselves in Manhattan Beach).
Don Wahl
El Segundo
No flensing here
Dear ER:
Being the leader of nothing, nor wishing to ever make such an egotistic and bizarre claim, I thought I might respond to spiritual and community “leader” Rev. Nyback’s letter to the editor (“Back together again,” ER March 12, 2015). As I perused her missive, I wondered why it read as apologetics in the aftermath of a positive position on oil drilling…disguised, as would be expected, as Humanist emotional charity. Nyback says she deplores sarcasm as it, in its root, infers violence. Obviously she does not appreciate the Latin/ Greek marriage of the Avestanian ‘thwares’ and ‘twerk’ (“to cut”) to ‘sarx’ and ‘sarkos’ (“piece of meat”) and thence to ‘sarkazein’: “to strip off flesh” and simultaneously “to speak bitterly, sneer,” a nice piece of flensing irony. I needn’t explain that religios are almost completely bereft of any sense of humor. Considering the influence of their incredibly dark and horripilatingly violent science-fiction liturgies (the Bible, the Torah, the Mahabharata, the Tanakh, the Magisterium, the kabbalah, the QuRan, etc.), this is understandable.
I wonder, then, what Nyback thought of the Christos attacking moneychangers in the temple. Seems measurably a good deal more violent than sarcasm to me (and I applaud Him for it). And if we go beyond the Nicean travesties now accepted as canon, back to when Christians weren’t Constantinians, as every single one of them now is, we find the mythical Jesus had a pretty, eloquently sarcastic tongue when needed. Oh, and Flavius Josephus, who lived back then, wrote of no fewer than 19 Jesus Christ figures (the term is a rhetorical redundancy: Jesus/Yashua = savior + christ = savior, thus ‘savior savior’). Biblical scholars estimate there were dozens more back when prophets were as common as the moneychangers we now see occupying churches, TV, and Congress.
Historically, temples and churches have been conservative business inventions, with a few liberal in situ heretics here and there (the Berrigans, Gilad Atzmon, Shlomo Sand…) and remain so, despite the rather astoundingly obvious fact that Jesus was an anarchist, certainly no less than a profound socialist.
Why then does Leader Nyback’s letter read as what simultaneously infuriates Republicans as they sardonically adopt it as PsyOp: compromising relativistic chatter to achieve a small take-back in the face of crushing defeat (here, of the initiative)? What, I wonder, was the motive mindset?
Mark S. Tucker
Manhattan Beach
