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Category Archives: Viewpoint
What Does Los Angeles Get for Its $1 Billion?
(Editor’s note: After listening to Nythia Raman, L.A. Mayor Karen Bass and Adam Miller speak at the Palisades Democratic Mayoral Forum on Sunday about the need for more affordable housing to help the homeless, Tim Campbells March 30 post on...
Posted in Homelessness, Viewpoint
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Viewpoint – Voting for L.A. Mayor – Choose Facts Not Feelings
A common reason that survivors stay in abusive relationships is that it can be difficult for someone to admit that they’ve been or are being abused. They may feel that they’ve done something wrong, that they deserve the abuse....
Posted in City, Viewpoint
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Letter: Ahmad Chapman for LAHSA
Hi Sue, Last week I sent a message through Circling the News’ website, and I’m following up here. We are respectfully requesting that you retract your story titled “This Can’t Go On . . .LAHSA Misses Federal Audit Deadline.” The story is...
Posted in Viewpoint
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Viewpoint: This Can’t Go On . . .LAHSA Misses Federal Audit Deadline
By HANK WRIGHT This is a city that has learned to look past certain things. The tents. The riverbeds. The on-ramps at dusk. You drive past them on the 101 and you think: someone is handling this. Someone, somewhere in...
Posted in Homelessness, Viewpoint
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That Was Then . . . . Moving Forward
Immediately after the fire, residents sought to hold onto what they had. For many Palisadians it was nothing – except community. Resident and Amalfi Founder Anthony Marguleas hosted and paid for a gathering in a Santa Monica park a few...
Posted in Viewpoint
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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...
Posted in Palisades Fire, Viewpoint
15 Comments
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...
Posted in Palisades Fire, Viewpoint
2 Comments
VIEWPOINT: Lies, Misdirection and Coverup Can Go to Trial
(Editor’s note: CTN reported yesterday in “Malibu Joins the Palisades Fire Lawsuit Party” that attorney Roger Behle of Foley, Bezek, Behle & Curtis, said “The judge has issued her final ruling denying the motions to dismiss, filed by the State...
Posted in General, Viewpoint
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Viewpoint: Campbell on Auditing, City Transparency and Homeless Industrial Complex
By TIM CAMPBELL AUDITING: What is the “philosophy” of auditing? To maintain my professional certifications, I have to take at least 20 hours of continuing education every year. Over the years, I’ve learned interview techniques, fraud recognition, how to use graphics to make...
Posted in Viewpoint
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Greet Your Kids Like You’re a Dog
BY JIMMY DUNNE As a young dad, I was forever hunting for that magic manual with all the answers on “how to raise a kid.” Never found that book. My parents never found it either. As a dad, sometimes you look back...