News

  • Reader Questions Mayor Karen Bass’ Statement

    In her state of the city address from City Hall on April 15, Mayor Karen Bass spoke about homelessness. She called on businesses, wealthy individuals and charitable
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  • Food Vendor Sets up by Library, Blocks Sidewalk

    A new street vendor selling tacos set up on the sidewalk in front of the Palisades Library. That sidewalk is highly utilized and as one resident wrote: “My wife and I had to
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  • Los Angeles: A Modern-Day Bedlam, a Madhouse

    Most people know the definition of the word bedlam; a scene of confusion, panic and hysteria. The word is derived from an old English slang term for St. Mary Bethlehem
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  • Final Concert of the Season Will Be Held April 24

    Don’t miss Chamber Music Palisades’ last concert of the season. Phenomenal music and talent will be on display at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, April 24, at St. Matthew’s Parish at
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  • Santa Monica Residents Demand End To Needle Distribution Program in Public Parks

    (Editor’s note: This story first appeared in the Westside Current on April 17 and is reprinted with permission.) By SANDRA CLARK Residents of Santa Monica rallied at Reed
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  • Two Women Beaten and Raped in Venice

    A woman was walking along the Venice Canal area, in the 2700 block of Strongs Drive on April 6, around 10:30 p.m., when a man walked up behind her, knocked her unconscious
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  • It Is “Earth Week” in Pacific Palisades

    Despite the light showers, there was still a nice turnout for the Earth Day Celebration hosted by Resilient Palisades, adjacent to the Village Green on April 14. Participants
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  • No Accountability for Homeless Spending: $24 Billion Gone

    (Editor’s note: Part 1 ran on Sunday night in Circling the News click here. This is part 2, It is reprinted by permission from CityWatch, click here where it originally
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  • Butterfly Garden Opens, Thanks to the Morrisseys

    A ribbon cutting was held on April 5 for the opening of a butterfly garden in Simon Meadow, located at the corner of Temescal Canyon Road and Sunset Boulevard. Cindy Simon,
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  • One Dog’s Life Saved: More Need Help

    Westside Current Editor Jamie Page visited the South-Central Animal shelter on April 5 and was brought to tears with the overcrowding and the filth. “I have never seen
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