Local Business Served with ADA Complaint by Chronic Lawsuit Filer

Posted on January 26, 2022 by Sue Pascoe

At least one local business, adjacent to Caruso’s Palisades Village, was served with papers in December that claimed the business did not abide by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Brian Whitaker, a quadriplegic, maintains that at least one local…

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Regarding Community Censorship

Posted on January 26, 2022 by Sue Pascoe

The U.S. Bill of Rights   The response was immediate after we posted “VIEWPOINT: The Problem with Community Forums” last night, in which Circling the News argued for a social media site where all sorts of different viewpoints could be…

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VIEWPOINT: The Problem with Community Forums

Posted on January 25, 2022 by Sue Pascoe

Local community forums are handy – especially in locating and finding lost dogs and alerting neighbors that a road may be closed. These forums have a problem, however, when more complicated issues are involved, such as politics and science. These…

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Park Advisory Board Addresses Tennis Lights, Parking Lot Paving and Baseball

Posted on January 25, 2022 by Sue Pascoe

The Palisades Park Advisory Board’s quarterly meeting on January 19 addressed tennis lights, Potrero Park, repaving of the parking lot and 5-pitch baseball. Elijah (Asia) Cooper, the Rec Center acting director, noted that about 40 percent of the landscaping in…

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Five Political Leaders to Address Democratic Club This Sunday

Posted on January 25, 2022 by Sue Pascoe

  The Pacific Palisades Democratic Club will hold its 2022 annual meeting, via Zoom, from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, January 30. Five Democratic office holders will speak and answer questions from the audience. The scheduled speakers are State Senator Ben Allen,…

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Legal Fight Over DWP Billing: Officials Arrested

Posted on January 24, 2022 by Sue Pascoe

(Editor’s note: This is the second part of the story “LADWP Water Rates to Rise: City Has Legal Bills to Pay.” Yesterday CTN examined how the City is dependent on DWP for part of its annual budget. ) In 2013,…

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Astronomer John Mulchaey Talks Telescopes/Aliens at Optimist Club Meeting

Posted on January 24, 2022 by Sue Pascoe

John Mulchaey, director of the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, was the guest speaker for the January 18 Pacific Palisades Optimist Club virtual meeting. One of the first questions that Optimists wanted to know:  Did he believe in UFOs? “I don’t…

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LADWP Water Rates to Rise: City Has Legal Bills to Pay

Posted on January 23, 2022 by Sue Pascoe

(Editor’s note: this is the first of a two-part story about the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and why customer rates are so high.) The biggest question is not whether your water bill is going to raise, it…

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Local Historian Randy Young Donates $11,000 to Rustic Canyon Recreation Center

Posted on January 23, 2022 by Sue Pascoe

At the January 20 meeting, the L.A. Department of Recreation and Parks acknowledged Randy Young, a life-long Pacific Palisades resident and esteemed historian, for his $11,000 donation to Rustic Canyon Recreation Center. “Thank you to Mr. Young for his donation,”…

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Alan Eisenstock’s Playlist: Here’s the Cost

Posted on January 23, 2022 by Sue Pascoe

(Editor’s note: Palisadian Alan Eisenstock’s 19th book “Redeeming Justice” co-written with Jarrett Adams was named the Best Book of September by Amazon. “A consuming tale of a broken legal system, its trail of ruin and the fortitude needed to overcome…

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