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### [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

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### [Your Boss Owns Your Workday—Not Your Brain](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33199:your-boss-owns-your-workday-not-your-brain&catid=425)

August 13 2026

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### [Biden Family Grift vs. Trump Family Grift: Let’s Do the Numbers](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33205:biden-family-grift-vs-trump-family-grift-lets-do-the-numbers&catid=9)

August 13 2026

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### [All Talk, No Action: Nithya Raman’s Reckoning](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33203:all-talk-no-action-nithya-ramans-reckoning&catid=401)

August 13 2026

#  LOS ANGELES

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### Trump and Greenland: Stupid Until One Realizes that China and Russia Want It, Too

Written by Kenneth S. Alpern on August 19 2019.

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## [14 Ways to Protect SoCal Neighborhoods While Providing Meaningful Housing Solutions](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=18279:14-ways-to-protect-socal-neighborhoods-while-providing-meaningful-housing-solutions&catid=312)

We are facing a push to indiscriminately force density on neighborhoods and a war on single-family housing, which some in Sacramento paint as inheren…

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Written by Bob Gelfand on August 19 2019.

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Written by Eliot Cohen on August 19 2019.

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Written by George P. Shultz and David G. Crane on August 19 2019.

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Written by Leonard Isenberg on August 15 2019.

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Written by Richard Lee Abrams on August 15 2019.

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Written by Kevin Suscavage on August 15 2019.

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Written by Ronald Stein on August 15 2019.

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Written by Tom H. Hastings on August 15 2019.

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Written by Abby Zimet on August 15 2019.

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Written by Dennis P. Zine on August 15 2019.

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Written by Kenneth S. Alpern on August 15 2019.

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Written by Tony Butka on August 15 2019.

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Written by Dick Platkin on August 15 2019.

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Written by Carey L. Biron on August 15 2019.

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Written by Richard Lee Abrams on August 12 2019.

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Written by Robert Koehler on August 12 2019.

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Written by James Preston Allen on August 12 2019.

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Written by George Cassidy Payne on August 12 2019.

 [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/9d/065g-9d6b5039.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=18239:the-new-national-motto-aaugh&catid=312)### [The New National Motto: Aaugh!](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=18239:the-new-national-motto-aaugh&catid=312)

Written by Kenneth S. Alpern on August 12 2019.

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