News

  • Homelessness Crisis in LA and SF: Numbers Games Hide Policy Failures

    (Editor’s note: The following column ran in CityWatch on June 3 and is reprinted with permission. On key takeaway: Putting all the L.A. homeless in housing by utilizing
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  • Beating and Pulling a Patron off a Bus – Crime?

      There were four fights among large groups of teens on the streets of Pacific Palisades on Wednesday, June 5. CTN received a video of a fight that started in the Big
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  • Kids Out of Control on Palisades Streets

      Circling the News has received photos and videos of high school students fighting. The photo above is  of three girls fighting in front of Gelson’s on Via de la
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  • Homelessness and the Failure of Mainstream Media

    (Editor’s note: This article first appeared in CityWatch on May 23 and is reprinted with permission.) By TIM CAMPBELL The Constitution’s framers included a free press in the
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  • “Happy Days” For Parade Theme Winner

    By LAURA ABRUSCATO A family project to come up with themes for the Palisades Fourth of July Parade has paid off for longtime Palisadians Dean Grinsfelder and Vicky Collison.
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  • Neal and Johnson’s Murderer Convicted of First-Degree

    (Editor’s note: This story first appeared in the Westside Current on June 5 and is reprinted with permission.) After a full day of deliberations, a 15-member jury reached a
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  • What Is It! #28

    This handmade hardwood, heavy container with flat bottom was made in England, where I bought it. Or possibly made in India where the wood came from. I’ve owned it for a
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  • Pot Shots #16

      (Editor’s note: A reader, who is a fan of Ashleigh Brilliant (creator of Pot-Shots), has worked out an agreement with CTN that gives this newsletter the permission to
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  • Theatre Palisades’ “Musical Comedy Murders” Delightful Evening

      By LIBBY MOTIKA Circling the News Contributor All the elements are present: Ten strangers invited to spend the weekend at a wealthy dowager’s country estate rumored to
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  • The Annual Youth Writing Contest Underway

      Annually, since the early 1990s the Friends of the Palisades Library have held a summer writing contest for youth. Now that schools are coming to a close, this might
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