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Author Archives: Sue Pascoe
Los Angeles Collected $700 Million From the ‘Mansion Tax’ to Combat Homelessness. Most of It Is Still in the Bank
(Editor’s note: This story first appeared in the Westside Current on June 26 and is reprinted with permission.) By JAMIE PAIGE Two years after Los Angeles began collecting a tax on multimillion-dollar property sales, nearly all the money meant to...
Posted in City
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FIREAID: The Profitable Game of NonProfits
In order to apply for grant from FireAid, one needs to be a nonprofit and to be able to supply that nonprofit number on the application. FireAid does not give directly to individuals, but on its website it notes, “Together,...
Posted in FireAid
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Police Stop-in Center Opens on Sunset in the Palisades
The late Kurt Toppel , a former Citizen of the Year has to be smiling. With wife Haldis, they had advocated for a LAPD stop-in center for the community, possibly at the new gym for decades. During the Public Safety...
Posted in General
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All Rebuilding Targets the Victims of the Palisades/Eaton Fires
Fire Victims are being blamed for the fires that destroyed more than 16,000 structures and killed 25. City and State officials maintain that the Palisades/Eaton Fires were once in a life-time event because of climate change, and once the victims...
Posted in Palisades Fire
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DWP: Finding Truth in the Reporting
There is a saying that if one says something often enough people begin to believe it is true. DWP, in press releases about the torn cover, writes that the Santa Ynez Reservoir has been empty since 2024 and that the...
Posted in City, Palisades Fire
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764 Radcliffe Rebuild: Keeping Up with the Pascoes
(Editor’s note: I promised to keep readers updated about our experience in rebuilding after the Palisades Fire and if construction is being expedited.) The 1939 home we had bought in 1993, and took possession of after the Northridge Earthquake,...
Posted in City, Palisades Fire
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70% of Palisades Residents Answering Fire Survey Under Insured
Seven in 10 Pacific Palisades residents who answered the city’s post-wildfire survey say they did not have enough insurance — or any at all — when January’s wind-fueled blaze leveled their neighborhood, Los Angeles officials told an Ad Hoc Committee...
Posted in Palisades Fire
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No Tour Buses in Pacific Palisades
Paige Sterling, Mayor Karen Bass’ Deputy Director for Recovery Communications alerted CTN that on June 25, Councilwoman Park introduced a motion that Mayor Bass strongly supports that would restrict tour bus operations in the area impacted by the Palisades Fire under Los...
Posted in City, City Councilmember Park, Palisades Fire
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Fire Conflagrations Repeated, Los Angeles Destruction Continues
(EDITOR’S NOTE: The Fire Department warned that a Palisades and Eaton Fires could happen more than 60 years ago. This story was taken from the Los Angeles Fire Department Historical Archive. To read the entire report, click here.. Most interesting...
Posted in Accidents/Fires
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Seeking PalisadesStories about the Fire
BY HENRY KAMER Our town, the beloved Palisades, was forever changed by the devastation experienced during the Palisades Fire that raged from January 7th onwards. Almost everything that defined the Palisades was destroyed, and the people that made the...