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Will paper bar exams become a thing of the past?   Image from Shutterstock.com. While there’s significant disagreement on how the bar exam should change, many believe it will, and there’s a wide range of ideas about what should happen. So far, suggestions for change include breaking the test into smaller segments and administering part of it in law school; replacing essay questions with performance tests; and doing away with the licensing exam entirely. The question of how the bar exam could improve was discussed before the COVID-19 pandemic, but safety concerns around in-person testing ...

Outdoor dining decks along Highland Avenue, now controlled by the city, attracted bustling business last Friday. Photo     The City of Manhattan Beach’s attempt to help local restaurants by repurposing outdoor dining decks into city-controlled, public seating has come under direct fire from Los Angeles County Health Officer Muntu Davis.  Davis sent a letter to City Manager Bruce Moe that said the city’s repurposing of the dining decks “violates both the letter and the spirit” of the Safer At Home public health order issued by the County on December 9. Davis said the ban on outdoor ...

  The Manhattan Beach City Council Tuesday night unanimously approved an emergency loan program to help small businesses struggling to stay afloat through the pandemic.  The program will allocate $250,000, drawn from the city’s general fund reserves, which will be disbursed in $10,000 loans to businesses that  employ 50 people or fewer. Highest priority will be given to independently owned businesses that have been closed due to COVID-19, and then to independent businesses that have been restricted due to the pandemic.  Councilperson Steve Napolitano said the city had to take action bec...

Despite cool weather and a County ban on outdoor dining, downtown Manhattan’s out door dining areas were busy on Sunday. Diners with to-go orders fill tables in Metlox Plaza on Sunday. The County ban on outdoor dining applied to restaurants, but not public seating areas. Photos   Manhattan Beach last Thursday answered the pleas of downtown restaurant owners and announced  they would be allowed to “repurpose” their outdoor dining areas to allow public seating for diners with take-out orders. Restaurant service at the dining area tables would not be allowed.  The action came in...

(Permanent Musical Accompaniment To The Last Post Of The Week From The Blog) Ari Berman, the relentless defender of the franchise against all enemies foreign and domestic, has been suggesting on the electric Twitter machine that none of the 126 Republicans who have signed onto the Covenant of Sedition should be seated when the new Congress opens in January. This I find intriguing because, after all, this whole election was corrupt because people said mean things to other people. Rep. Bill Pascrell, whose pursuit of the president*'s tax returns has been dogged, does Berman one better. He would...