## In the News [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/ae/064h-ae29651b.jpg) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=29355:remembering-ken-draper-citywatch-and-transparency-are-his-legacy&catid=12) ### [Remembering Ken Draper: CityWatch and Transparency Are his Legacy](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=29355:remembering-ken-draper-citywatch-and-transparency-are-his-legacy&catid=12) August 07 2025 [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/9b/061a-9b0a2dba.jpg) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33148:brace-yourself-for-a-worse-housing-crisis&catid=398) ### [Brace Yourself For A Worse Housing Crisis](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33148:brace-yourself-for-a-worse-housing-crisis&catid=398) August 03 2026 [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/ae/064j-ae16d9b9.jpg) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33204:be-prepared-to-protect-our-democracy-in-november-from-a-trumpian-plot&catid=9) ### [Be Prepared to Protect Our Democracy in November From a Trumpian Plot](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33204:be-prepared-to-protect-our-democracy-in-november-from-a-trumpian-plot&catid=9) August 13 2026 [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/bb/063e-bbfe3056.jpg) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33174:nithya-raman-loses-the-homelessness-gavel-her-record-explains-why&catid=396) ### [Nithya Raman Loses the Homelessness Gavel — Her Record Explains Why](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33174:nithya-raman-loses-the-homelessness-gavel-her-record-explains-why&catid=396) August 10 2026 --- [![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/b4/095y-b4ac3408.png&src=images/stories/Nov-2017/095y.png&thumbnail=1300,500,&hash=d5b7f13e)](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=14425:an-angry-black-man-in-the-white-house-the-conversation-we-never-had&catid=9) Written by James Preston Allen on November 27 2017. Posted in [IMPORTANT READS](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=9). ## [ An Angry Black Man in the White House? The Conversation We Never Had ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=14425:an-angry-black-man-in-the-white-house-the-conversation-we-never-had&catid=9) President Barack Obama wasn’t perfect, but he brought respect to the office, leadership in international affairs and led our nation out of one of the worst economic disasters since the Great Depression. And, for all of this he and the Demo… ### More Coverage - [Popular Thanksgiving Turkey Brand Comes with a Side of Antibiotics](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=14398:popular-thanksgiving-turkey-brand-comes-with-a-side-of-antibiotics&catid=9) - [In a Country of Bigots and Liars, Predators Will Always Survive](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=14393:in-a-country-of-bigots-and-liars-predators-will-always-survive&catid=9) - [Joe Biden 2020 Is a Terrible Idea In a Post-Weinstein America](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=14381:joe-biden-2020-is-a-terrible-idea-in-a-post-weinstein-america&catid=9) [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Nov-2017/094j.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=14409:former-republican-ag-warns-sessions-against-marijuana-crackdown&catid=9)Written by Tom Angell on November 22 2017. Posted in [IMPORTANT READS](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=9). ## [Former Republican AG Warns Sessions against Marijuana Crackdown](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=14409:former-republican-ag-warns-sessions-against-marijuana-crackdown&catid=9) Current U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions would be wrong to crack down on state marijuana laws, one of his Republican predecessors says. “To prosecute an act that is otherwise lawful under state law, one could make the argument [that] a… --- [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/c2/093g-c2a192da.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=14398:popular-thanksgiving-turkey-brand-comes-with-a-side-of-antibiotics&catid=9)### [Popular Thanksgiving Turkey Brand Comes with a Side of Antibiotics](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=14398:popular-thanksgiving-turkey-brand-comes-with-a-side-of-antibiotics&catid=9) Written by Katherine Paul on November 20 2017. 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