Category Archives: Letters

(Editor’s note: Palisades resident Larry Newman wrote to Councilmember Traci Park’s office [below] on March 31. CTN forwarded the letter to the Mayor Karen Bass’ office.  Her press secretary Paige Sterling responded this afternoon, April 1. “A Bureau of Street...

(Editor’s note: The following letters was sent to Lee Zeldin, Head of the Environmental Protection Agency and President Donald Trump’s choice to examine the Palisades Fire Rebuild. The letter was cc’d to Circling the News. It is printed with permission.)...

All Palisadians should have access to all government officials.  Lee Zeldin has been getting a biased message from various individuals of some PPCC and Palisades “Recovery Group” members who dislike Trump more than they loathe Karen Bass and speak up for the...

By HANK WRIGHT Running for office and holding office are opposites. Exact opposites. Council member, mayor, county supervisor, assembly member, state senator, governor. It does not matter which. One is speeches and doors and selling. Asking. The other is solving....

  I’m tired of feeling like a victim. First the fires and losing our home and all our possessions to Karen Bass for ignoring our community and allowing the devastation to happen: To having to relive the trauma and identifying...

(Editor’s note: I received this letter from Murray Levy, who responded to this editor’s query about the NORC Survey, sponsored by the Pacific Palisades Community Council. Levy, a Castellammare resident was a member of the PPCC for several years.) I...

By JOSEPH SOMERVILLE The big question. Why is everything moving so slow? Is it me, or does everyone feel it? Do you feel it? Am I right or am I wrong? Things seem to be moving at a snail’s pace....

(Editor’s note: This letter is reprinted with permission. Pamela Hayer of Keetan, the children’s clothing boutique in the Palisades reached out to CTN.) I’ve always enjoyed reading Circling the News—and after the fires, your updates became an invaluable resource. It’s...