Los Angeles School Police Officer John Taylor, who was under investigation for using excessive force against students and adults during a September incident in Pacific Palisades, has been reassigned to ‘a computer-training job,’ according to Lieutenant Tim Anderson, the department’s public information officer. Taylor was reassigned from patrolling public schools here ‘over a month ago,’ Anderson told the Palisadian-Post. The Pacific Palisades Community Council passed a resolution in late October calling on School Police Chief Lawrence Mannion to consider reassigning Officer John Taylor based upon parent and community concerns. This week, the department would not say if the decision to reassign the officer was the direct result of that resolution. Anderson said that the chief ‘received the letter [from the council] and took it under advisement.’ He also said that the department has a new computer system, and many officers are expected to learn that system. ‘I am glad that he has been temporarily reassigned,’ said Janet Turner, the Community Council member who wrote the original resolution. ‘I hope [our] letter was one more element that was used in coming to this decision.’ The Board of the Los Angeles Unified School District also examined the Chief’s earlier decision not to reassign the officer in two closed-session meetings. The details of those meetings are not available to the public. The School Police provide security for more than 1,000 schools and administrative offices within LAUSD, which has oversight over the department. In previous interviews with the Post, Lt. Anderson said the Chief chose not to reassign the officer based upon the ‘totality of circumstances.’ The internal investigation examining Taylor’s actions is expected to be complete in mid-January, according the department. It began after a violent confrontation between the officer and local students and adults on September 19 outside the CVS loading dock. Two teenagers were arrested for disobedience to a police officer and using ‘offensive words most likely to cause an immediate and violent reaction.’ Those two teenagers as well as several other student and adult bystanders were sprayed with pepper spray. The department’s internal investigators contacted about 40 witnesses, Anderson said. Taylor’s previous record of excessive force was also a cause of concern among community members, who requested that he be reassigned pending the outcome of the department’s internal investigation. A superior officer blocked the officer’s promotion in 2002 based upon ‘a series of excessive-force incidents.’ Taylor has been the subject of three previous internal investigations for excessive-force complaints. It is unknown whether he has been found responsible or disciplined by any previous investigation. The Post’s requests for the disciplinary record of the officer were rejected by LAUSD. A former high-ranking official within the L.A. School Police Department said that the City Attorney’s office complained to the department that Taylor’s police reports lacked the ‘elements of a crime’ necessary to bring charges against alleged perpetrators and have cited subjects ‘without cause and with exaggerated circumstances.’ The officer currently faces two lawsuits charging him with an excessive use of force while he was a school policeman at Hamilton High School and Crenshaw High School. One of those lawsuits was dismissed and is currently on appeal. The family of a Paul Revere Middle School student is expected to file a lawsuit against the officer based upon the September 19 incident. According to district records, LAUSD has spent more than $152,000 in legal expenses for the two existing lawsuits in which Taylor is a defendant. The School Police could not say exactly when the officer was reassigned from patrolling public schools in Pacific Palisades. The Post tried to reach the department’s spokesperson for the past three weeks to ascertain the status of the officer’s assignment, but was not given an interview until this week. When the internal investigation is completed, the Chief will decide to discipline or not discipline the officer based upon the investigation’s findings. Reporting by Staff Writer Max Taves. To contact, e-mail: reporter@palipost.com

Councilman Bill Rosendahl represents what might be L.A.’s most ecologically paradoxical district. At its southern edge in areas like Playa del Rey and Westchester, loud jets at LAX compete for airspace with herons at Ballona Creek. Large and congested streets like Lincoln and Venice Boulevard cut through dense populations in Venice, Marina del Rey and Palms. And at the district’s northern border, suburbia meets the expansive Santa Monica Mountains and Santa Monica Bay in Pacific Palisades. Enter Deborah Weinstein, Rosendahl’s new environmental deputy. Perhaps as a testament to the district’s environmental complexity, Rosendahl has chosen as his deputy a 34-year-old who has spent the past decade navigating national and international environmental politics in Washington, D.C. Although city council members have dozens of staff members, only a handful have full-time environmental deputies. Weinstein began working for Rosendahl last May after six years of work at the Department of the Interior, which manages nearly 20 percent of all U.S. land, including its environmental resources. From its policy office, she helped design environmental policies with long time frames and global implications. She analyzed the environmental impact of international trade agreements with Central America, Singapore and Australia. And she studied other countries’ enforcement of environmental laws. Although she appreciated the scope of her work at the department, the slow pace of change and the politicization of science motivated her to look for a job outside Washington. ‘My job was to present neutral policies to protect our trusts’ resources,’ Weinstein said in an interview with the Palisadian-Post in the district’s Westside office. ‘But it was incredibly frustrating to present those policies and often have them overlooked because of a political bent.’ The department’s culture during the Bush Administration meant not openly discussing major issues like climate change and often meant working to undo popular environmental protections. ‘We [civil servants] were tasked with coming up with recommendations to modify the Endangered Species Act, mostly via regulations because it’s up to Congress to do legislatively,’ she said. ‘The direction we were given was pretty clear from the political appointees.’ Raised in Southern California, Weinstein developed an appreciation of the environment hiking and camping in its mountains and swimming on its beaches. But it wasn’t until college at UC Santa Barbara that she decided to dedicate her career to the environment. ‘When I was growing up, I always thought the environment would be there,’ she said. ‘But in college, I started to realize there were real threats against the environment.’ Weinstein worked as an intern at the White House Council on Environmental Quality during the Clinton Administration. From there, she worked for an environmental law firm in D.C. and then received a master’s degree in public policy with a focus on environmental policy at UCLA. After graduating with her master’s, Weinstein won the competitive Presidential Management Fellowship, which prepares 500 future managers of government by placing them in jobs with the federal government. She began her fellowship in 2000 during the transition from the Clinton to the Bush presidency at the Department of the Interior, where she worked until May 2006. Not surprisingly, Weinstein brings the big-picture view that she cultivated at the department to Councilman Rosendahl’s district. ‘I feel lucky because Bill [Rosendahl] has empowered me to go to him with the biggest environmental issues and challenges,’ she said. In the absence of a federal approach to curb global warming, she imagines crafting a local solution to greenhouse emissions. Weinstein wants L.A.-based climate change policy to start with ‘greener’ city-owned buildings. ‘I don’t think many people realize how many emissions come from the building sector,’ she said. ‘Green buildings and sustainable designs are a great way of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions.’ To that end, Weinstein has advocated redesigning LAX and city office buildings with energy-efficiency at their core. Rosendahl has recently sponsored a motion requiring the airport’s commissioners to come up with a 10-year plan to make LAX ‘the greenest airport in the world.’ In addition to her focus on climate change, Weinstein is actively focused on ways to clean up Santa Monica Bay. She staffs the councilman on the Santa Monica Bay Restoration Commission, an independent state organization that crafts solutions to the long-term health of the bay. She is overseeing the city’s development and implementation of storm-water diversion in areas like Santa Monica Canyon and Temescal Canyon. And she wants to ‘strengthen the teeth’ of the city to prevent urban runoff from entering Santa Monica Bay. Weinstein and Rosendahl have proposed ways to decrease septic-tank leakage in areas like Mandeville Canyon. And Weinstein is working on ways to preserve the district’s naturally-flowing streams, which can help to reduce harmful urban runoff better than concrete storm drains. A new cycle of state funding for parks begins early this year, and Weinstein wants to direct those funds toward increasing open space by building more parks within the district. She would like to create greenways along Ballona Creek in Playa del Rey by acquiring land along the creek. And she would like to hear input about capital improvements in the Palisades. ‘We live in such an urban city, and we’re park poor,’ Weinstein said. ‘Hopefully, in the future, we’ll have more and more open space. I think it allows people to escape their hectic, busy lives.’ Weinstein divides her time between working at City Hall and Rosendahl’s Westchester and West L.A. offices. She encourages constituents to help shape the district’s environmental agenda. ‘I would love to hear ideas from the community,’ she said. ‘Everything is on the table to make our district more sustainable.’ Reporting by Staff Writer Max Taves. To contact, e-mail: reporter@palipost.com

Understanding exactly what Palisadian Kathleen Milnes does for a living seems complex until she provides an anology. “I’m like Sacagawea,’ she says, laughing. ‘I speak all the languages: government, education and industry.” Like Sacagawea, who successfully guided Lewis and Clark through the unmapped western United States with her knowledge of the terrain, customs and language, Milnes helps her clients understand employment trends in the film industry through her company, the Entertainment Economy Institute. Milnes came to her business in a roundabout way. As a student at the University of Maryland, she received a degree in American studies. “I didn’t want to major in any one thing; I wanted a degree in everything,” she says. ‘This major was a way of looking at different pieces of information and connecting them.” Her first job was in the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. When her boss joined the Secret Service as general counsel, he asked her to move into that area, which she did. Shortly after that she met her future husband, Larry Gutterridge, an attorney working in the White House. They married and moved to California in 1981 and to the Palisades in 1985, where their daughter Stephanie was born two years later. In the early 1990s, Milnes was active in the campaign to convert Palisades public schools into charter schools. Milnes worked for the California Film Commission before moving to the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. Later she took a job with the Los Angeles Film Office, where she was senior vice president in economic development. Two years ago, when the film office decided to focus solely on permits, Milnes, decided that the time was right to found her nonprofit business. Her clients include the California Department of Education, California Community Colleges and companies that provide training for entertainment companies. She uses her accumulated knowledge in government, education and the film industry to identify job trends in entertainment not only for workers currently employed in the field, but also for high school and college students who are thinking of entering the industry. Explaining the multidimensional nature of the entertainment industry to students, Milnes talks about new trends as well as current job opportunities, such as becoming a ventilator–the person who creates hair ‘appliances’ like goatees and mustaches. Since traditional jobs like tape operators and film processing lab technicians are disappearing because television has gone digital, a new category of employment has emerged: imaging technicians (DIT) and image capture engineers (ICE). High-definition filming is also an expanding trend for television, which means that people have to learn to operate a different kind of camera. In addition, sets that have paint chips or scratches, which aren’t picked up by a camera using tape, are noticeable with high-definition cameras, which means that the sets have to be repaired more often; this opens up more jobs. Milnes also focuses on the jobs in the film industry that are applicable in different industries. In 2005, she documented 55 industries that use multimedia artists and animators who use computers to make images move, including architecture, science (aerospace), litigation support (recreating accidents) and medicine. Her 12-year analysis of the 400,000 workers in the entertainment industry in California showed that more than 50 percent earned the majority of their income from non-entertainment sources (e.g., a set constructor might also work in residential construction). This reportwas important because it explored the concept of cross-working: using a similar sets of skills in both entertainment and non-entertainment jobs, which may expand employment opportunities. Another area of interest to Milnes is the interactive entertainment industry, in which the games have become so sophisticated that they begin to resemble films. She cites Electronic Arts, located in Playa Vista, which has developed ‘Medal of Honor,’ a game about World War II. “They made an effort to get it right,’ Milnes says. ‘The uniform, medals, everything about the game is accurate.” In addition to games, the interactive industry manufactures products for varied uses like customer service training, education and simulated training (including for the military). Using the information that she gathers, Milnes provides research that not only predicts future jobs in the entertainment industry, but also tracks how many people are employed in a particular industry. “The government doesn’t have a record,” she says. Milnes’ company, which is based in the Palisades, works closely with schools to partner with the film community, locate internships for students and enhance curriculum. She recently was one of the people chosen to develop career technology education (CTE) standards for classes in art, media and entertainment at the high school level. CTE is an updated type of vocational education. Many teenagers resist typical academic subjects like calculus and physics, asking, “Why do I need to know this?” For those kids CTE classes might be a better educational choice. As Milnes points out, “Students learn applied physics when they analyze a person falling off a chair and how it relates to film. They learn color theory when they paint a flat surface and then see it transferred to the screen. “Calculus is used in 3D animation, and students learn budgeting when they have to figure out how many feet of film they need,” she says. At one point in her life, Milnes worked for a lobbyist for the motion picture industry, but hated her job. Her husband encouraged her to quit and find something else. She thought about the work areas that gave her the most joy and pleasure and realized it was the management of the creative aspects in the entertainment industry, especially arts and music. This introspection resulted in her current company.

Katie O’Laughlin, the owner of Village Books, has decided to plunge ahead and sign a three-year lease for her popular store on Swarthmore. “I signed the new lease and sent it off on December 22,” O’Laughlin said in an interview Tuesday. “I’m anxious as to what the future holds, but I still love doing this and I’m going to give it my best shot.” O’Laughlin’s determination to preserve an endangered species–the independent bookstore–was welcomed news to local book lovers, who speculated all through 2006 whether she would be able to afford signing a new lease on her 1,000-sq.ft. space. “I can’t imagine life in the Palisades without Village Books,” said local resident Kenny Turan, the L.A. Times film critic. “It’s such a blessing to have this kind of sophisticated and friendly store right in the heart of the Village.” Despite the store’s cramped space, he said, “they have become real experts at getting books quickly if they don’t have it on the shelf.” O’Laughlin had just finished adding up her sales figures for 2006 on Tuesday and said, “This year was a little better than 2004, but down from 2005. Our biggest competition is still the Internet, more so than Barnes & Noble and Borders. Also, you see books being sold everywhere–Target, Costco, grocery stores, speciality stores, Restoration Hardware– and they all nick away at our sales. People say, ‘Your store seems busy,” but you have to sell a lot of $10 to $30 books just to break even.” Moreover, O’Laughlin gives a 10-percent rebate to customers (paid after every 10 books purchased), knocking her income down to 30 percent of the purchase price. But she is adjusting that “frequent buyer” program this year. “Faced with the reality that we need to make some changes in order to survive,” O’Laughlin said in a letter to her customers in December, “our frequent buyer credit slips will have a six-month expiration period,” beginning on January 1. “This is a relatively minor change that we hope will encourage you to come in more frequently to use your credit slip and make enough difference in our bottom line to keep us going.” One important reason why O’Laughlin was embolded to sign a new lease is that 2007 offers several notable selling opportunities. First, the store will celebrate its 10th anniversary on July 4, and O’Laughlin is hoping to have a float in the parade while also keeping the store open all day. Second, the seventh and final book in the Harry Potter series “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”) is set to be published this year. “I hope the rumor is true that since this is the seventh book, it will be published on 7/7/07,” O’Laughlin said, knowing that this would give her a perfect opportunity to keep the store open for another Saturday night party leading up to the start of sales at midnight. The Potter books have been financial boons, with hardback sales ranging from 505 for book three to 939 for book five. At $30 retail, Village Books earns $12 a book before rebates. O’Laughlin is also confident that her store’s new Web site (www.palivillagebooks.cog) will help attract new customers while keeping her regulars happy. The site includes staff recommendations and information about upcoming events, and has an easy way to e-mail requests to order books. “People can’t purchase books online through us yet,” O’Laughlin said, “but we’ll probably eventually move into online selling and try to gain business from people who are accustomed to buying everything on the Internet.” Meanwhile, O’Laughlin’a single mom with a daughter, Elizabeth, in her senior year at Marymount’will continue working virtually seven days a week to stay on top of her business and maximize her selling opportunities (such as by selling books at off-site events and by keeping the store open late one or two nights a week for talks by visiting and hometown authors). ‘Tuesday is theoretically my day off,’ she said, ‘but in reality, I’m here every day, either ordering books, working the cash register, or handling all the business aspects.’ Yet she still makes time to read. ‘I listen to a book on tape when I walk the dog or walk to work [she lives on Sunset near Drummond], and I read hard copies at home. This week she finished ‘Lay of the Land’ by Richard Ford. ‘His writing is really something,’ she said, her eyes lighting up. ‘Every sentence is beautiful.’

Parking Lot Repaving Lags Behind

Construction crews working at Will Rogers Beach are expected to complete construction on the L.A. County Lifeguard Headquarters and a public bathroom by the end of this month. The parking lot east of the beach’s entrance was scheduled to be repaved this month, but crews will have to rush to meet the deadline. In the next three weeks, workers will put ‘interior finishes’ on the headquarters as well as the adjacent newly redesigned and rebuilt public bathroom. The beach’s large eastern parking lot remains unleveled, with large piles of gravel. Officials and crews seemed less certain of making this month’s deadline. Community members are watching this January deadline closely for early signs of what it might mean for the public’s access to the beach this summer. The county began the nearly $13-million Will Rogers Beach refurbishment in December 2005 as a way of modernizing and redesigning the beach’s aging infrastructure. With May 2007 as the goal, the county planned to offer summer beachgoers Spanish-style concession stands, refurbished bathrooms, repaved parking lots and a reconstructed main entry at Temescal Canyon Road. But meeting that pre-summer goal has been a challenge. A county planning error caused a four-month delay in construction. While installing a natural gas line in the parking lot’s eastern parking lot, crews working for county contractor Gonzales Construction Inc. encountered a city-owned sewer main early this past summer. After four months of negotiation between the two overlapping bureaucracies and three days of construction to fortify the sewer, regular construction resumed in late September. To overcome that delay and open Will Rogers to summer beachgoers, county officials have said that they have accelerated construction. The contractor has hired more workers and began working on multiple projects simultaneously, said Gil Garcia, the project manager for the county’s Department of Public Works. Workers are constructing new restrooms, concession stands and the lifeguard headquarters concurrently with parking lot repaving. Crews demolished the decades-old concession stands early this month. They also completed laying a natural-gas line in the beach’s eastern parking lot, but the line to the county’s maintenance yard in the lot’s western end is not yet complete. In its transition toward all-natural-gas vehicles, the county is building a natural-gas pumping station at its maintenance yard. In its original plans for a pumping station, the county also said that it would offer a filling station for the public, but the details plan have not yet surfaced. According to Garcia, construction is currently within the allocated budget. When county supervisors first approved the project in 1999, they set aside $4.9 million for construction. But when they finally awarded the contract to Gonzalez Construction, they agreed to pay $8.3 million. Late plans to add a natural gas line and the sewer-main planning error are expected to cost approximately less than $600,000. There have been no major delays since September, said Garcia. Rain caused some delays in November and December. Although rain dries quickly, it has delayed work on the parking lot when it has formed in pools, he said. If the headquarters is completed by the end of the month, it is unknown when the building will begin to house lifeguard operations again. For more than a year, lifeguards have worked out of temporary trailers in a parking lot adjacent to the lifeguard headquarters. Reporting by Staff Writer Max Taves. To contact, e-mail: reporter@palipost.com

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For Palisadian Carol Maloney, lingerie should be as sexy and sophisticated as the word sounds when it rolls off the tongue. A designer with a 30-year career in the fashion lingerie business, Maloney is launching a new line that will debut at Saks in January. The label, called Carol Malony Signature, features bras, panties, camisoles and teddies made with Chantilly laces and silk ribbons. Designed for women ages 25 to 40, the black and cotton-candy-pink lingerie outfits come in a handful of styles, such as “Little Bow Peep” for the padded half-cup bra with embroidered bows and “Tickle Me” for the triangular soft-cup bra with a detachable feather. “I’m 55 and I want to wear it,” says Maloney, who has lived in Pacific Palisades since 1998. She opened her design studio on the ground level of the Spectrum building at Sunset and PCH three years ago because she wanted to be close to the beach, which she calls her “power spot.” Her line is French- and Brazilian-inspired, with skirted thong and bikini underwear. Prices range from $50 to $70 for bras and $20 to $30 for panties. “We call it ‘bridge’ because prices are not quite [as low as] Victoria’s Secret but it’s not La Perla,” says Maloney, who is passionate about bringing women high-quality, comfortable and affordable lingerie. “Hopefully, it’s the piece in your lingerie drawer that you wouldn’t mind if someone saw,” she says. A San Fernando Valley native, Maloney has always had a thing for beautiful lingerie, even before she was old enough to have discussed it with her mother. “I thought women’s breasts were beautiful when they were pushed up high,” she says, referring to bustiers and European-style lingerie that made women look voluptuous. When Maloney was in her early 20s, she flew to Montreal, “where they have the closest thing to a European market,” and remembers gazing at the French-style lingerie’brands like Lejaby and Simone Perele–in the windows of the Place Bonaventure market. “I just was knocked out by that kind of product,” she says. “I fell in love with it.” After graduating from the University of California at Santa Cruz with a philosophy degree and moving to San Francisco for a brief time with her husband, who was studying to be an architect, Maloney decided she wanted to return to Los Angeles and open her own fine lingerie business. She applied for and received an economic-opportunity loan and rented a narrow 1,000-sq.-ft. retail space in the Promenade mall in the Valley in 1976. Her shop, named “Fannie” after her grandmother, was located on the second floor, in the Saks Fifth Avenue wing. She imported European lingerie and transformed the empty 2,000-sq.-ft., rent-free space behind her retail shop into an atelier to provide clients with custom services like “build your own slip.’ “The term ‘lingerie boutique’ was new language,” she says. “It was a big step for my clientele because there was no competition at that time. The bra makers did everything in mass quantity, and making a strap change would have been an act of Congress. “The names of the past were Bally, Olga, Vanity Fair. These were billion-dollar iconic businesses that were not into fashion; they were into bread and butter. There was Frederick’s of Hollywood, which my customers weren’t interested in, or there was traveling to Europe, where you find these beautiful pieces and get shocked by the fact that the bras are over $200 and the panties are $150.” Within a year, Maloney’s business grew into a chain of four retail stores in the Los Angeles area and she began developing her own designs, which sold as well as or better than the imported labels. She also designed the store interiors and the marketing and sales catalogs, experience that led to her being asked to be a consultant to the forerunner of Victoria’s Secret. Maloney currently imports and exports lingerie internationally and is a supplier of specialty lingerie to Victoria’s Secret. She says her embroidered butterfly panty design was recently the No. 1-selling panty in the store. Her five-person team includes Jim Poleski (CEO), Kim Thayer (product management director), Rose Poulsen (design director) and Samantha Swain (sales/marketing director), in addition to a small sewing staff that makes the samples here in the Palisades. The firm employs an international sewing force for production. “I don’t know where I got my second wind, because I’m old enough to retire,” says Maloney, who is inspired by the three young women on her design team. She attributes her success over three decades to staying focused on lingerie and learning to master her trade. “When you really specialize,” she says, “you can build a craft.”

CVS/Pharmacy’s proposal to replace the lighted signs of the former Sav-on with larger and brighter signs was rejected by the Pacific Palisades Design Review Board, which oversees the construction and modification of all commercial structures within the community. CVS acquired the Sav-on on Swarthmore Avenue as well as hundreds more throughout the country in early June. Since then its policies and plans have drawn criticism from the DRB and community members who say that CVS has not taken ‘community standards’ into account. ‘They’re a national company and I don’t think they know how this store looks,’ said Rick Mills, chair of the Design Review Board. ‘I think they may have bitten off more than they could chew when they took over all of the Sav-on stores.’ City building code allows stores to have signs on their street fronts and their entrances and leaves design review boards with authority over the size and style of those signs. CVS hoped to significantly increase the size and brightness over the previous Sav-on signs. Those plans were rejected early this month, and no new signs can be built until the DRB approves the plans. A CVS representative is expected to present a revised sign plan on January 24, but the board hopes that CVS will also commit to an exterior remodeling plan that addresses its other concerns. Among the board’s main concerns are the following: (1) the elevator from its rooftop parking does not work, which is expected to be a violation of state and federal disability laws; (2) merchandise is sold and stored outside the building; (3) CVS’ landscape is not regularly maintained; (4) the loading dock is cluttered with overflowing trash cans, broken glass, and dozens of wooden and plastic crates; (5) rooftop equipment has blocked parking spaces; (6) and the driveway ramp leading to rooftop parking is regularly locked. The board and others argue that these issues amount to a violation of not only city codes but also community standards. Although these concerns might amount to a breach of the law, many local leaders fear that bureaucratic obstacles might impede enforcement. The Department of City Planning has the ultimate authority over zoning and building permits. Because the department has no inspectors of its own, it relies on the Department of Building and Safety and the City Attorney’s Office to enforce its codes, which often means haphazard if not nonexistent enforcement. Critics of the city’s ability to enforce its own laws point to a Sav-on sign facing Antioch Street that was never removed even though the sign was in violation of city codes. American Legion Post 283 owns the CVS building and some community members want the Legion to pressure its new tenant to comply with the law and community standards. ‘I really think that the American Legion has to take responsibility for their tenant,’ said Stuart Muller, a Pacific Palisades Community Council member. ‘In spite of two years of memos addressing community concerns, the exterior still looks the same.’ Terms of CVS’ long-term lease prevent the Legion from forcing compliance, said Everett Maguire, the Legion’s judge advocate and executive board member. ‘When CVS replaced Sav-on, they took over a triple net lease, which means that they maintain the building and pay the taxes and insurance. They assumed responsibility for the building. The landlord is not in a position to enforce all of the laws. And if they violate the law, the city should enforce it.’ CVS corporate management would not respond to immediate requests for interviews with the Palisadian-Post. Angel Blancia, the store manager, said that the exterior merchandise was sold outside temporarily until space was made inside the store. He said that merchandise will be brought inside by week’s end. Reporting by Max Taves, Staff Writer. To contact, e-mail: reporter@palipost.com