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Author Archives: Sue Pascoe
Facts Don’t Support Theory of Lachman Arsonist
The ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) started an investigation into the January 2025 Palisades Fire. Nine months later they concluded it was a holdover fire from the January 1 Lachman Fire and then arrested Jonathan Rinderknecht, 29, … Continue reading
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A Way to Help Mobile Home Owners Impacted by Fire
(Editor’s note: This letter was sent to Senator Ben Allen and to this editor. It raises an important question about allowing those who lived in mobile homes a chance to survive, to find a new home, by a one-time tax … Continue reading
Posted in Palisades Fire, Real Estate
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Criminals Traveling Local Streets Looking for Empty Homes
A Pacific Palisades resident in Lower Marquez wrote “around 5 p.m. these individuals (see photo) attempted to break into my house in Lower Marquez. The alarm was triggered and the police were called, but they got away.” The people in … Continue reading
Posted in Crime/Police
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Optimistic Report of Problem-Plagued MacArthur Park – But Tomorrow the Lake Is Being Searched for Bodies
Today, in the Los Angeles Times, columnist Gustavo Arellano spent an hour with Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez in MacArthur Park. Even though he wrote that there were people lying on sidewalks and overflowing trashcans, he proclaimed the park a Rorschach test … Continue reading
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Welcome PaliHi Students Back to Temescal Campus
If you have moved back to Pacific Palisades, please help line Temescal Canyon Road as Palisades High School return to the campus on Tuesday, January 27. School starts at 8:30 a.m. and people are asked to come earlier to welcome … Continue reading
Posted in Palisades Fire, Schools
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Oasis Palisades & Yin Yang Dermatology Offer Services
Like many businesses, whose buildings were destroyed in the 2025 Palisades Fire, Oasis Palisades & Yin Yang Dermatology have had to pivot to a new location: 530 Wilshire Boulevard, #3101, Santa Monica, 90401. Oasis Co-owner Stephanie Kanin has held a … Continue reading
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If You Can’t Repair a Bike Path, Can You Build a Subway through Sepulveda?
Supervisor Lindsey P. Horvath and the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) Board approved a heavy rail transit underground that will connect the San Fernando Valley with the Westside of Los Angeles. It will supposedly serve 120,000 transit riders … Continue reading
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Palisades Fire Was Not an Accident: Needs Federal Investigation
Somedays I wake up and I’m sad. After the January 2025 Palisades Fire, I have more sad days than I did before the fire. Today was a sad day. Last night, January 22, at the Pacific Palisades Community Council Meeting … Continue reading
Posted in Palisades Fire
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Palisadians Nominated for Oscars
By: BERNICE FOX Anyone nominated for an Oscar more than once probably will tell you that it never gets old, no matter how many times they receive the honor. Oscar nominations were announced Thursday morning. And the two high-profile Palisadians … Continue reading
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PR Firm Brought in to Clean Up Fire Mess
L.A. Times reporters Alene Tchekmedyian and Paul Pringle discovered that the Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation paid Lede, a high-level celebrity public relations firm to reshape the messaging of the Palisades Fire. What image would they need to reshape? Ask … Continue reading
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