Category Archives: City
The 405 Freeway Can Be Brutal: Transit Proposed through Sepulveda
According to the Los Angeles Business Journal, “the 10-mile stretch of the 405 Freeway between the 10 and 101 freeways often sees more than 300,000 cars per day. And according to a 2019 study commissioned by the Los Angeles County...
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Op-Ed: Insurers Need to Step Up for LA Wildfire Survivors
(This Op-Ed first appeared in the L.A. Daily News on August 17 and is reprinted with permission from the Mayor’s office.) By: LA MAYOR KAREN BASS and L.A. COUNTY SUPERVISOR CHAIR KATHRYN BARGER It’s been seven months since the most...
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Questions to Mayor Bass and Supervisor Lindsey Horvath at Y Event
Today, a press conference was held at Simon Meadow to announce a new YMCA facility in the meadow and a rebuilt structure on Via de la Paz, that was destroyed by the fire. After photographs were taken for the almost...
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LETTER: Unacceptable. No Power and Another Fire
(A reader sent this letter to Councilmember Traci Park and has given permission for CTN to reprint it.) As you may be aware, the Palisades, plus Santa Monica Canyon and Rustic Canyon suffered ANOTHER power outage last night. Our power...
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Homeless Bureaucracy not Helping People off the Streets
(Editor’s note: this article first appeared in CityWatch on August 11 and is reprinted with permission.) By TIM CAMPBELL Most of my regular readers know I have great respect for Union Rescue Mission (URC), and the work it does on...
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AECOM Gives Brief Presentation at Community Council Meeting
AECOM, a global infrastructure consulting firm, was hired by L.A. Mayor Karen Bass on June 6, to lead the town’s recovery after the Palisades Fire. The exact value of the contract hasn’t been publicly disclosed, but an April 2025 Request...
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L.A. Shelters Are at a Breaking Point. City Council Just Defunded the Fix
(Editor’s note: This Article first appeared in the Westside Current on August 7, 2025, and is reprinted with permission.) City Council’s silent vote strips funding from key spay and neuter providers—putting overcrowded shelters and at-risk animals in deeper crisis. At...
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Governor Issues an Executive Order Re: SB 9
Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order that will give local government the discretion to limit SB 9 development in very high fire hazard severity zones within the rebuilding areas, including the Palisades, Eaton, Hurst, Lidia, Woodley and Hughes Fires....
Fear and Rumors about SB 9
Senate Bill 9 tries to take away single family housing under the oft-repeated mantra among some government officials that more housing is needed. They ignore the fact that California has lost population, resulting in the loss of a U.S. Representative...
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Viewpoint: The Numbers Are in for the Homeless Count—And So Is the Spin
By TIM CAMPBELL The Los Angeles Housing Services Authority (LAHSA) released the 2025 Point In Time (PIT) Count numbers, on July14. According to the count, homelessness dropped four percent countywide and a little more than three percent in LA’s City limits....
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