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### [Reminder to the Red States, Turnabout is Fair Play](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33212:reminder-to-the-red-states-turnabout-is-fair-play&catid=395)

August 17 2026

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### Underpinning of the Brown Act for Neighborhood Councils Turns Out to be Bogus

Written by Tony Butka on February 11 2021.

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## [End the Subminimum Tipped Wage](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21217:end-the-subminimum-tipped-wage&catid=312)

It would also raise the wage floor for all U.S. workers — and give a particularly long overdue raise to restaurant servers, taxi drivers, manicurists…

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Written by Richard Lee Abrams on February 11 2021.

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Written by Bob Gelfand on February 08 2021.

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Written by Robert C. Koehler on February 08 2021.

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Written by Daniel Guss on February 08 2021.

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Written by Zack Linly on February 08 2021.

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Written by Jerry Roberts & Phil Trounstine on February 08 2021.

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Written by Richard Lee Abrams on February 08 2021.

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Written by Jasmyne A. Cannick on February 04 2021.

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Written by James Preston Allen on February 04 2021.

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Written by Dick Platkin on February 04 2021.

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Written by Bob Gelfand on February 04 2021.

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Written by Abby Zimet on February 04 2021.

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Written by Richard Lee Abrams on February 04 2021.

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