Category Archives: General

The Woolsey Fire Was the Warning, but Failure to Act on Lessons Learned Made Palisades Pay the Price

(Editor’s note: this story first appeared in the Westside Current on April 17 and is reprinted with permission.) By JAMIE PAIGE Woolsey Fire (2018): A Catastrophe Exposes Systemic Gaps When the Woolsey Fire ignited on November 8, 2018, it quickly...

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Bass Has Problems Issuing Executive Order

L.A. Mayor Karen Bass is like Lucy in the Charlie Brown cartoon strip. In her hand she holds the football (building permit waivers) and every time someone from the Palisades or someone associated with construction goes to the City, she...

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Palisades Residents To Meet for Celebration

There is a saying “if you’re rich you live in Beverly Hills. If you’re famous you live in Malibu. If you’re lucky, you live Pacific Palisades.” Well, we were lucky up until January 7, when the City decided the neighborhood...

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Pacific Coast Highway to Open by the End of May

California Governor Gavin Newsom announced on April 12 that Pacific Coast Highway which has been closed since the January 7 Palisades Fire will reopen by the end of May. CalTrans representative Eric Manjivan said that only one lane in each...

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Rick Caruso Address Rebuilding and Undergrounding Wires

“Palisades is going to come back,” said Rick Caruso, who was featured on the 1Pali webcast on Monday night, April14, that attracted nearly 1,000 virtual attendees. Caruso emphasized that the Palisades has to bring back places for families to gather....

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Rats and Other Vermin Call Palisades Home

Corners of the Pacific Palisades commercial areas are littered with trash. Main and side streets of the town have become a site of advertising for contractors. Jeff Ridgway, who manages an apartment building on Haverford, and has lived in the...

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Looting in the Ashes. Who Is Guarding?

By KARI WEAVER I was just up in the Palisades with my 17-year-old son, visiting our property in the Alphabet Streets. I was shocked to find that several things had been disturbed since my last visit on April 7. It...

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The Fire Crisis: Talking to Your Kids

Psychotherapist Robert Cohen answered some of the difficult questions that parents are asking about how to help their children through the aftermath of the Palisades Fire. The devastation turned a community upside down, forcing nearly 28,000 people to evacuate, the...

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Project Homekey Sites Aren’t Helping Homeless

(Editor’s note: This story “At L.A.’s Homeless Housing Sites, 911 Calls Reflect a Crisis Within a Crisis” first appeared in Westside Current on April 11. It is reprinted with permission. Even as more money is targeted for the homeless, this...

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Corpus Christi Finds a Semi-Permanent Space

(Editor’s note: A long-time parishioner sent an update for Corpus Christi Church. Many will remember that the church burned on January 8, a day after the initial fire raced through the Palisades, leaving the congregation without a church and parish.)...

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