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Politics & Government

The Top 5: Affordable Housing, Trees Down and an Icon Dies

It's been a wet week, with a hot-tempered school board meeting and an affordable housing project marking one more step toward happening.

Good news: It looks like this week we'll get a chance to dry out after recent storms. Here are our top five stories from the week.

The weather was a big story this week, though that news was also good (unless one of the several fallen trees in the city was in your yard). most of the power outages, serious flooding and property damage that other communities in our area faced.

Monday night, another step towards some affordable housing in Culver City was taken by the .

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Tempers got more than a little warm at the , as board members and teachers clashed in anticipation of a difficult budget.

Maybe the school board ought to take a lesson from Patch columnist Jesica Bourneman Davis, who and how she made it into something better in her column yesterday.

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Finally, one of the big national stories this week was the passing of screen icon . And lest we forget, Mom Chat columnist Deborah Setele reminds us today that in Culver City.

Until next week...

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