Category Archives: General
New Homeless Tax Goes into Effect Today, Up from 9.5 to 9.75%
(Editor’s note: This appeared in the Westside Current today and is reprinted with permission.) By JAMIE PAIGE A new quarter-cent sales tax to fund homelessness programs in Los Angeles County takes effect Tuesday — raising the county’s base sales tax...
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What Is It? #55
(After the Palisades Fire on January 7, one of the first questions one of CTN’s out-of-state readers asked was “What happened to the man with that interesting collection? Did it survive?” The reader was referring to Palisades resident Howard Yonet,...
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Rec Center Minors All-Stars Win City Championship
For some March Madness is all about college basketball. But Palisades players turned it into March Madness in Los Angeles. They won back-to-back titles for the City’s Recreation Center’s West Region Championship. When most of the Palisades burned on January...
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Viewpoint: Define the Toxins so They Can Be Tested
“Communities are rebuilding after L.A. fires despite lack of soil testing for toxic substances” was the headline in a March 27 L.A. Times Story. The first two paragraphs made it clear that there are possible toxins after the January Fires...
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Stile Antico, an Innovative Vocal Ensemble, to Perform
Stile Antico, one of Britian’s premiere vocal ensembles, will perform in a concert for St. Matthew’s Music Guild at 8 p.m., Friday, April 4. Due to January’s devastating fires in Pacific Palisades, this concert will take place at St. Augustine...
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County Dollars at Work: Apartment Pool Closed on Haverford
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (DPH) closed the swimming pool located at an apartment complex at 850 Haverford Avenue in Pacific Palisades, on March 11, because the pool was green. This pool was near the center of Pacific Palisades, where all...
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PaliHi Band Will Perform at the Hollywood Bowl
By CHAZ PLAGER After a life-changing disaster, you tend to focus on the big stuff first. Where am I going to go to school? What about my house? What about my friend’s house? Only after all of those worries have...
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Opting-In, Opting-Out Deadline Extended to April 15
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has extended the Opt-in, Opt-out, Right of Entry deadline to April 15. In a March 28 press release from L.A. County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath, she wrote “Thank you to FEMA, California Governor’s Office of Emergency...
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City Caught with Pants Down: No Accounting for Homeless Spending
(Editor’s note: This March 28 story “LAHSA’s 18-Year Record of Audit Failures on Homeless Spending Laid Bare in Federal Court,” first appeared in the Westside Current and is printed with permission.) By JAMIE PAIGE A federal judge sharply criticized the...
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Help PaliHi and Its Students by Bidding on Online Auction
The devastating January 7 Palisades Fire damaged the Palisades Charter High School and displaced 3,000 students from across more than 100 Los Angeles zip codes. Now everyone can help the school community by participating in online auction to raise funds....
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