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Category Archives: News
Beutner, Former School Supertindent, Businessman and Civic Leader Enters Mayor’s Race
(Editor’s note: This story appeared October 13 in the Westside Current and is reprinted with permission.) By JON REGARDIE By many counts, 2025 qualifies as the worst, most dispiriting year in the history of Los Angeles. Consider: The January wildfires\ decimated … Continue reading
Trailer Bills Are a Way to Avoid Public Scrutiny
It came as a surprise to Pacific Palisades residents that they were not entitled to hearings concerning the replacement of Gladstone’s with a new proposed restaurant and parking lot change at Sunset and Pacific Coast Highway. They were told that … Continue reading
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LETTER-LAFD After-Action Report Incomplete
Having skimmed through the LAFD 70 page after action report it is clear we need an independent report with exact times and participants. We know LAFD’s response was neither rapid nor ongoing with the bulk of the ground crews pulled … Continue reading
Posted in News, Palisades Fire
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Mental Institution Will Open … with an Ocean View
Palisades resident and Santa Monica commercial business owner, John Alle wrote to CTN about the mental health facility that is slated to open in Santa Monica at 413 and 425 Ocean Avenue and has ocean views. “Forty-seven units are … Continue reading
Posted in L.A. County Supervisors, News, Parks
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State Insurance Commissioner Lara Under Investigation
Ricardo Lara is under investigation by the California Fair Political Practices Commission for taking trips on tax payer dollars. A KGO-TV investigation showed that he had expensive receipts from at least a dozen trips including paying for significant security … Continue reading
Posted in Accidents/Fires, News
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Palisades and Altadena Residents Warned about Possible Voting Issues
Displaced residents of Pacific Palisades and Altadena need to check on their voter status to vote in the November 4 special election on redistricting (Proposition 50), the 2026 midterms, the Los Angeles mayoral race and the California gubernatorial election. Los … Continue reading
City Officials Not Working in Residents/Homeless Best Interests
The effectiveness of the money spent on the homeless by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) was questioned by the L.A. Alliance in 2020. A settlement agreement was reached in 2022 and the city promised to provide an additional … Continue reading
Posted in City, Homelessness, News
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SB 79 Waiting for the Governor’s Signature. Call Him
San Francisco Democratic Senator Scott Wiener wrote on X around 4 p.m. “SB 79 — our bill allowing more housing near public transportation — just received final approval by the Senate & IS ON ITS WAY TO THE GOVERNOR!” Senate … Continue reading
Posted in City, Community, News
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Metro Proposes a Subway or Aerial through Sepulveda: Residents Asked to Select by Aug. 30
It seems the one fact that people in Los Angeles and surrounding areas can agree on is that traffic through the Sepulveda pass can be excruciating, especially during rush hour. It takes afternoon peak period commuters on average 48 minutes … Continue reading
Posted in Environmental, News
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The Effects of Proposed Trade Tariffs in Japan
(Editor’s note: Writer Chaz Plager grew up in Pacific Palisades and lost his family home during the fire. He taught himself Japanese during Covid and is fluent. This August he is in Japan on assignment and will start his sophomore … Continue reading
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