Monthly Archives: January 2024

Diseases Can Be Traced to Sugar Consumption

Mitochondrial damage is a major contributor to ischemic heart disease and stroke; chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias; trachea, bronchus, and lung cancers, and type 2 diabetes. What causes the damage to the mitochondria, which is responsible...

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Posted in Education, Environmental, Health | 2 Comments

Criminals Caught by West L.A. Burglary Detectives

In a Zoom townhall meeting on January 3, Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Detectives announced significant progress, making 12 arrests and that “seven South American burglary suspects had been arrested.” This meeting followed one held on December 21, in which...

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Individuals Leaving California, and Now, Sweet Lady Jane Closes Seven Stores

U-Haul, a self-moving company, has noted that for the fourth year in a row, California showed the largest net loss of one-way movers. The company compiled data from more than 2.5 million one-way rentals in the United States and Canada....

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Posted in businesses/stores, Community | Leave a comment

Dog Park Implementation Creeps Along

(Editor’s note: Palisades dog lovers have asked for a dog park for decades–CTN will chronicle this story until some sort of resolution happens in 2024: either the park moves forward or it’s decided the project is dead. At the rate...

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Posted in Animals/Pets, City, Community | 3 Comments

MARTHA HUNTER – Best of the Best

This editor can think of at least five individuals or groups that should have been honored by the town/community council but have not. Either they have been overlooked or people were unaware of the contributions made. These people should still...

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Posted in Arts, Community | 4 Comments

Ongoing Sagas Continue in 2024 – DOG PARK

One of the top headlines in February 2004 was “Dog Fight over the Dog Park.”  It was one of several articles that ran that year as residents fought over a proposed dog park site. There was overwhelming support for a...

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Councilmember Park Hosts PCH Meeting

When movie producer Michel Shane (Catch Me if You Can and I, Robert), did his 58-minute documentary 21 Miles in Malibu, he noted that in 2016, there were 617 traffic collisions along Pacific Coast Highway between McClure Tunnel and the northernmost...

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Posted in Accidents/Fires, City Councilmember Traci Park | Leave a comment

VIEWPOINT-Caltrans Lacks Safety Measures on PCH

(Editor’s note: Michel Shane, the producer of the documentary “21 Miles on Malibu,” sent CTN an email on December 25, 2023. Last night, another person was killed on PCH; I wrote this as an opinion piece. The man killed was...

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Storms Provide High Surf/Rainfall

  Pacific Palisades rainfall season starts on July 1 and runs through June 30. The annual average in Pacific Palisades is 13.78 inches of rain. The area is well on its way to making its average after the December 22...

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Kalberg/Young to Assume Co-President Role for Homeless Task Force

Whenever this editor sees a homeless individual in the Village or along Temescal Canyon Park, a photo is taken and instantly sent to the Pacific Palisades Task Force on Homelessness (PPTFH). When this homeless woman (pictured) was walking down to...

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Posted in Community, Homelessness | 1 Comment