Category Archives: General

Pacific Palisades resident Susie Forte Gilman filed a lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles on April 6 for its proposed intention to house homeless people in the Palisades Recreation Center during the coronavirus outbreak. In the 13-page complaint, filed in...

By RABBI STEVEN CARR REUBEN, PH.D. Special to Circling the News This year’s Passover celebration will be unlike any we have ever experienced in our lives. As the virus continues to spread across the world and all of us continue...

On April 5, the Pacific Palisades Community Council executive committee sent a letter to Mayor Eric Garcetti, Councilmember Mike Bonin and L.A. County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl opposing the proposed homeless shelter at the Palisades Recreation Center. The letter states that...

Longtime Pacific Palisades resident Joe Halper, an L.A. Recreation and Parks board commissioner, sent the following message to Circling the News. “I suggest you alert your constituency of the opportunity to share their concerns and suggestions on the [Palisades] Recreation Center...

 (Editor’s note: Many Pacific Palisades residents know Laurel Busby from her frequent stories while working for the Palisadian-Post under editor Bill Bruns, and in recent years for the Palisades News and Circling the News. We join Laurel in mourning the...

When Palisadian Nina Madok spoke to several local business owners who are struggling during the coronavirus shutdown, and then read about Toppings Yogurt and its dire financial situation on Via de la Paz, she asked herself, “What can I do to...

(Editor’s note: Given the surge of coronavirus cases in New York, I emailed my friends who live there and asked how they were doing. They responded yesterday, March 31.)  “I took my wife to the hospital a while back, she...

(Editor’s note: After posting letters titled “Resident Asks City Not to House Homeless in Rec Centers” and “Update: Local Organizations Challenge City’s Plan to House Homeless at the Palisades Recreation Center,” Circling the News received 10 angry comments. Most accused...

(Editor’s note: I received the following email around 6:30 p.m., Friday, March 27. I have contacted the store to see if they can provide more information about the employee and how they may have interacted with community members—once I receive...

Story and photos: By LIBBY MOTIKA Circling the News Contributor “No place to run, no place to hide,” so the song goes. In real time, our task is to use our imaginations to stimulate our minds and soothe our nerves...