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Category Archives: Viewpoint
Viewpoint: Home for the Holidays. Not This Year.
My kids called them “crack bars,” because the cookies were so addictive you couldn’t stop eating them – a pecan pie bar on a cookie crust. Every December at our home in Pacific Palisades, I’d make eight different kinds of … Continue reading
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Viewpoint: L.A. Government Is Paying an Outside Law Firm
(Editor’s note: This opinion piece first appeared in the L.A. Daily News (“LA’s Governing Disaster: Legal Payouts, Nepotism and Incompetence” on November 25 and is reprinted with the author’s permission”) By SUSAN SHELLEY Los Angeles is a mess. It’s not … Continue reading
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Viewpoint: Residents “Crying Uncle”
This editor is joining residents in “crying uncle.” For those too young to understand the phrase, it originated around the 1900’s among American school children as a way to surrender in a physical fight, meaning “give up” and was still … Continue reading
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VIEWPOINT: You’re Lucky to Be Alive
My husband cooked the turkey … Continue reading
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Viewpoint: Los Angeles Not Ready for World Cup/Olympics
If one was going to be on television, one might buy a new outfit or at least make sure the dress/suit one is going to wear is clean and pressed. One would probably make sure they had a haircut/or hair … Continue reading
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Residents Attend “Oedipus the King, MAMA!”
(Editor’s note: The Getty Villa offered free tickets to Palisades residents who had been impacted by the fires to its annual Villa Outdoor Classical Theater production. Tahitian Terrace resident Krishna Thangavelu went and came back with this report about “Oedipus … Continue reading
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Viewpoint: Are There Housing Shortages in Los Angeles?
One can’t listen to a radio or television program or pick up a newspaper without the dire warnings that California is facing a severe housing shortage. People such as your editor repeated this mantra, without thinking. Who would lie about … Continue reading
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Shut Up! Opposing Viewpoints Not Wanted
By TIM CAMPBELL In early July, a member of the Venice Neighborhood Council notified me I was invited to speak at its upcoming meeting about recent developments in LA’s homelessness environment. About a week later, I was informed I’d been … Continue reading
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Op-Ed: Insurers Need to Step Up for LA Wildfire Survivors
(This Op-Ed first appeared in the L.A. Daily News on August 17 and is reprinted with permission from the Mayor’s office.) By: LA MAYOR KAREN BASS and L.A. COUNTY SUPERVISOR CHAIR KATHRYN BARGER It’s been seven months since the most … Continue reading
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Executive Order on Homelessness Asks for Accountability
(Editor’s note: This article was first published in CityWatch on July 28, 2025 and is reprinted with permission.) BY TIM CAMPBELL A lot has happened in the homelessness arena in the past few days. Two of those events are particularly … Continue reading
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