Monthly Archives: January 2021

Historic Aldersgate Retreat Center on Haverford Is Up for Sale 

The Aldersgate Retreat Center, a Los Angeles Historic Cultural Monument, is up for sale. Located on Haverford Avenue, between the Woman’s Club and Pierson Playhouse, the three-story, 8,260-sq.-ft. building has been a retreat center for decades. It is currently being subleased by...

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Reliability of Covid-19 Tests Is Questioned; Curative Test May be Providing False Negatives

In November, Circling the News sent several queries to the L.A. County Department of Public Health about the reliability of the Covid tests being given. Elon Musk had tweeted that he had taken four tests, two of which were negative,...

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Home Invasion on Monument Street

Fran Morris Rosman, Executive Director of The Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation, had an unpleasant surprise on Christmas afternoon. Her husband was away, when “Three young men in hoodies broke into my house.  They slashed a screen door, ran in, and...

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Covid-19 Report: ICU, Vaccinations and New Cases

(Editor’s note: A resident and Circling the News reader Neven Karlovac researched the following piece. He said, “I write these things mostly to understand myself and then to share with friends and I’m happy to share with your readers.”)  ICU...

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Design Review Board to Meet January 13; Will Review Renovation Plans for Buildings in Santa Monica Canyon

The Pacific Palisades Design Review Board will meet virtually at 6:30 p.m. on January 13. On the agenda is a review of the plans to renovate 107 W. Channel Rd. (a duplex with retail space on the first level) and...

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Pacific Palisades Voting Results in the November Election

The final election results in California were finally certified on November 30. Circling the News reached out to Mike Sanchez, media and communications for the L.A. County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, to learn how Pacific Palisades residents voted. Sanchez responded on December...

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Readers Comment on Councilman Bonin and Mayor Garcetti as We Head into 2021

(Editor’s note: At year’s end, I wanted to be fair to Mayor Eric Garcetti and Councilman Mike Bonin because many of my political-related postings in 2020 were not always complimentary about them. I put out a plea to readers to...

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Viewpoint: Myths Presented in Economic Research

(Editor’s note: A reader sent the following article that was printed on December 30 in the Economic Institute for Economic Research “The Year in Which Comforting Myths Were Ravaged,” and asked for my comments. I’m sharing the piece, because I...

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Alan Eisenstock’s Playlist: Georgia

Editor’s note: When Palisadian Alan Eisenstock is not researching and writing one of his nonfiction books (18 thus far!), he pursues what he calls “a crazy labor of love side project” that he started in mid-March: sending a weekly Covid-themed...

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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of 2020 

I remember thinking on New Year’s Eve 2019 that I was so done with the year and could hardly wait for 2020 to get started. Now a year older (and hopefully wiser), I will appreciate whatever the coming year brings....

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