Category Archives: General

Pacific Palisades Senior Lead Officer Michael Moore reported the following crimes from May 1 through May 10. BURGLARY: May 1 to 5, noon to 3 p.m., in the 500 block of Almar. The suspect entered victim’s home through an unlocked...

When your child gets ready to leave the house, it is unsettling. Deep down you know its time for them to move on, to start their own lives, but somehow no matter how old they get, they will forever be...

By LAUREL BUSBY Special to Circling the News What’s it like to be a writer in the age of coronavirus? For acclaimed historical novelist Lisa See, it has meant canceling or postponing most of a book tour for her new...

Councilman Mike Bonin is to be applauded for trying to help poor people or just those who are crammed into apartments with no yards. In an April 13 letter to Seleta Reynolds, general manager of the Los Angeles Department of...

“The Los Angeles Unified School District received a $250,000 grant from television writer and producer Chuck Lorre to support its Grab & Go food centers that are providing meals to families during the Covid-19 pandemic,” according to an April 28...

It’s time to open up the beaches and parks. Although it may come as a surprise to governmental officials when they urge people to stay at home and play in their own yards, many families don’t have yards. It may...

Palisadian Max Steinberg, 14, has developed a website (“Supply Chain”) that links medical professionals with people who are distributing personal protective equipment during the Covid-19 pandemic to doctors and nurses on the front lines. Steinberg, who was home-schooled and is...

The April 23 Pacific Palisades Community Council newsletter noted that the Highlands Eldercare Project Lawsuit had been denied by a Superior Court judge.  “The petition for writ of mandate brought by the Pacific Palisades Residents Association, challenging decisions of the City and Coastal...

In July 2016, I wrote a story for my previous publication, headlined “City Bans Wood Dumping on Temescal.” It noted, “The tipping point for resident Reza Pazirandeh came when a mattress, a broken dresser and large tree branches were left...

A March 21 L.A. Times story (“Why Is the Coronavirus So Much More Deadly for Men Than for Women?”) stated: “While preliminary, early accounts have suggested that boys and men are more likely to become seriously ill than are girls...