Category Archives: Palisades Fire

Viewpoint: Name Names and Do it Now!! We Need a Grocery Store

The one thing this editor learned after the Palisades Fire is that everyone wants to lead the recovery through their own Palisades nonprofit: each proclaims to have superior knowledge on how to proceed. Last week, a group of people came...

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Ornest Paintings Gifted to Fire Survivors

Maury Ornest was a Beverly Hills High School baseball player who was selected by the Oakland A’s in the 15th round of the 1977 draft. Instead of going directly into the professional ball, he first attended UC Santa Barbara. His...

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BID Discusses Trees, Trash Pickup, Grocery Stores

The Palisades Business Improvement District held its quarterly meeting on March 4 to discuss tree planting and trash. Established in 2016, an assessment is placed on commercial property owners in the main Pacific Palisades business district. Over the past nine years,...

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LETTER: Insurance Versus FEMA

Thank you for all the great information you shared with the community. I have some information that would also be useful for the community. We applied for FEMA help back in January or February 2025 and they responded to us...

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Running for Insurance Commissioner, Merritt Farren Knows the Game

In the last election, most Los Angeles folks were more concerned about voting for mayor than California Insurance Commissioner. After the 2025 Palisades Fire, Palisadians know that ignoring that race was a mistake. Some residents had no insurance, many had...

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Quiones Is On Her Way Out

Just like rats on a sinking ship, LADWP General Manager Janisse Quiones has joined L.A. Mayor Karen Bass’ Communications Director Zach Seidl and former Fire Chief Christine Crowley from hopping off – or being pushed from the boat. Quiones was...

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Governor Newsom Attends Private Meeting in Palisades

California Governor Gavin Newsom was invited by concerned citizens from Ronald Reagan American Legion Post 283 and the Palisades Long-Term Recovery Group to a private meeting in Pacific Palisades on March 3. At the meeting at the Legion Hall, the...

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Palisadians Travel with Mayor, Councilmember to Sacramento to Discuss Insurance

A delegation of 11 Palisades residents traveled with L.A. Mayor Karen Bass and Councilmember Traci Park to Sacramento on February 9 to advocate for Palisades Fire Survivors. The delegation represented 1) single-family homeowners who lost their homes, 2) underinsured households,...

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Councilmember Park to Host AECOM: Summary from Mayor’s AECOM Meeting

There will be a virtual townhall meeting to discuss the AECOM report with Councilmember Traci Park from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Monday, March 2 click here L.A. Mayor Karen Bass hired AECOM, after the Hagerty consulting firm was hired,...

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Viewpoint: City Cannot Save Us: Call to the Pacific Palisades Community Council

By HANK WRIGHT In February, the City of Los Angeles published three reports from AECOM, the engineering firm it paid $5 million to assess what Pacific Palisades needs to recover and rebuild safely. The reports arrived three months late. They...

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