News

  • Need-to-Know News: Cannabis Under-Regulated; Water Pooling on PCH
    CANNABIS REGULATION: Shortly before L.A. Controller Ron Galperin left office, he released a report “Improving Cannabis Regulation in L.A.”(Visit: https://lacontroller.org/audits-and-reports/review-of-the-citys-cannabis-regulation-efforts/) He
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  • Mayor Bass Accompanies Councilwoman Park to Venice
    Mayor Karen Bass and Councilwoman Traci Park were in Venice to visit the encampments that surround the A Bridge Home (ABH) site, at Sunset and Pacific Avenue. ABH was designed to give the homeless a safe place to sleep, while waiting for permanent
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  • “The Pale Blue Eye” Provides Thoughtful Evening
    Offering an intriguing story, Scott Cooper’s The Pale Blue Eye, staring Christian Bale, opened with a limited theatrical release on December 23, including at the Bay Theater in Pacific Palisades. It will start streaming on Netflix on January 6.
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  • Need-to-Know News: Prop. 13, ULA and Ignoring State Constitution
    HOWARD JARVIS TAXPAYERS ASSOCIATION: Susan Shelley from the Howard Jarvis Taxpayer Association spoke to the Palisades Optimist Club in December. To see how much you’d be paying in property taxes if Prop. 13 had never passed, visit the Guessing Game
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  • Library Offers Storytime, Intro to VR and Adult Painting
    The Palisades Library at 861 Alma Real has resumed full-time programming and there are opportunities on January 4, 7, 10 and 14, for toddlers, teens and adults. (310) 459-2754. BABY AND TODDLER STORYTIME, JANUARY 4 The next Baby
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  • True Drought or Bad Water Management?
    CTN has been keeping track of Pacific Palisades’ rain fall (with help from the late Ted Mackie) since 1942. Over the years rainfall has been relatively constant. The average rainfall in Pacific Palisades is 13.78 inches of rain, which has been
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  • Local Suicide, Death: Grief Is for the Living
    A man was found dead along the beach by Lifeguard Tower 12, yesterday, January 2. According to Palisades Senior Lead Officer Brian Espin, it “was an apparent suicide. An older male committed suicide using a firearm.”  The family was being notified.
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  • Forget 2022. CTN Looks to 2023.
    A journalist friend suggested that instead of looking back at 2022, CTN look to the future. This editor thought it was a brilliant suggestion and dragged out her crystal ball, dusted it off, put on her blue-light blocking glasses and peered into
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  • Soderbergh’s Parking Plan Was Adopted by City
    It is a joy to walk through the George Wolfberg Park at Potrero. Ever since it opened on December 10, it has rapidly become a place to meet other residents for a gentle passage in the Canyon – an area that had been closed to the general public for
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  • Ringing in the New Year Brings Challenges
    Living in New York City and working at the Manhattan Theater Club in 1979, I received news just before Christmas that my brother was going to be married in Nebraska on January 6. I was making minimum wage; living on the edge. I had no insurance, no
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