Open Carry
At around 8 a.m. on Sunday, April 15, my husband and I were picking up coffee at Starbucks in the Village when I noticed a man, early 40s, medium height, dressed all in black, including a fisherman’s hat, with a tan holster on his hip and a handgun. I asked him if he was law enforcement: He said he was, and asked if he could help me, but he was not displaying any badge or insignia. My husband felt this was “weird” and we left. I did not think we allowed open carry in this state, and it was very unsettling.
Fire Alarm
I attended the planning hearing on the senior center: I intended to speak against it but was too upset after hearing about the inferno risk to The Highlands. It seems like the whole of The Highlands is going to be reduced to ashes any day now, not just the senior center, but traffic will stop all of us escaping. It will be like “Mad Max.” Many will die, they told us. I can only hope some of us might help out the older folk before we flee for our lives.
Coastal Jeopardy
Do the West LA planners who ignored the will of the community and approved the senior care monstrosity realize they may set a dangerous precedent for Coastal Commission appeals? Allowing developers up and down the coast to ignore the commission … that happy trio of useful idiots do not yet know what they have done, but their children will.
Good Ol’ Girls
Karen Murphy O’Brien’s firm does not look like they represent the 21st century women at all. The picture of their staff looks more like an old picture of a 1970’s sorority house. Absolutely no diversity! If Murphy O’Brien wants to represent the 21st first century women they’ll need to get a staff that can speak for the multi-racial society we live in.
Slow Down
In a span of two minutes, I just yelled “slow down!” at two people going easily 50 miles an hour on Chautauqua in the Alphabet Streets. One, a typical SUV mom rushing her kids to school, and the other, a man racing north in his Porsche. Why do we wait to put in stop signs until after someone dies?
Norris Hardware
Dear Norris Hardware: Please stay in our village. We need you. Please.
(Editor’s note: Dan Fumes, manager at Norris Hardware, said there were always rumors they were about to fold, but none of them are true: “Everything is going great”—and for that Fumes thanks the loyal customers of the Palisades.)
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