Category Archives: City
Garbage Pick-Up Tomorrow to Be Delayed Because of Strike
City employees who are represented by SEIU local 721, including sanitation workers, traffic officers and engineers, have authorized a one-day strike on Tuesday, August 8. For Pacific Palisades residents that means garbage day on Tuesday will be delayed by a...
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Behind the Post: The LA Times Propagandizes on Behalf of Bonin’s Favorite Developer
(Editor’s note: The story first ran on the Westside Current on August 7 and is reprinted with permission.) By ANGELA MCGREGOR The L.A. Times ran a July 30 editorial (“Are L.A. leaders trying to sabotage homeless housing in Venice?”) that suggests...
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Call City Officials, Urge Them to Fix Temescal Road
The Bureau of Street Services acknowledged that a trench needs to be dug and a pipe installed under the segment of the roadway that keeps buckling up on lower Temescal Canyon Road. Bureau of Street Services Senior Advisor Dan Halden...
DWP Allows Watering Three Times a Week
Thanks to heavy rainfall last year, Los Angeles residents may now water three times a week, according to a Los Angeles Department of Water and Power July 31 press release. DWP customers have been limited to two-days-a-week outdoor watering restrictions...
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Residents Need to Contact Officials about Temescal Canyon Road
It might be helpful if Pacific Palisades residents weigh in with the Bureau of Street Services and with Councilman Traci Park’s office about a fix for Temescal Canyon Road (contacts at the end of the story) before Palisades High...
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Temescal Canyon Moat Suggestion Appears Sound
Circling the News has jokingly said that the City might need a moat to fix Temescal Canyon Road, which has been under construction/resurfacing since November 2022. The City has now identified there is water under the street, but to...
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Week One: Reporting from Tokyo
(Editor’s note: Chaz Plager, who will be a senior at Palisades High School and started writing for Circling the News last year, is in Japan. Before he left for a month, he agreed to send a weekly report that I...
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Cocaine Use, Enlarged Heart Factors in Keenan Anderson Death: Family Files $100 Million Lawsuit
The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner released its findings in the death of Keenan Darnell Anderson, 31, on June 2. The report (“Cause and Manner of Death Determined for Keenan Darnell Anderson”) listed the cause of death “as effects of...
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Wildlife District Ordinance District, First Proposed in 2014, Goes to PLUM
Circling the News received several emails from people warning about the proposed L.A. City Wildlife District Ordinance and the need to warn the community. One wrote “The Wildlife Ordinance is 100 time worse than Measure ULA. It will decimate property...
Pacific Fire Stopped on Thursday: Councilwoman Park Will Host Safety Fair Saturday
PACIFIC FIRE: A fire, dubbed the Pacific Fire, broke out at around 1:15 p.m. on June 8, near the intersection of Topanga Canyon Boulevard and Pacific Coast Highway. PCH was shut down in both directions at Topanga, as several L.A....