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### Can Vacancy Taxes Bring Down Housing Prices?

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## [Need a Blueprint to Remove Trump? Look at What Puerto Ricans Did in Just 16 Days](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=18117:need-a-blueprint-to-remove-trump-look-at-what-puerto-ricans-did-in-just-16-days&catid=312)

IMPEACHMENT BE DAMNED, SPEAK UP--While many progressives were dismayed to learn on Thursday that Democratic leaders remain reticent to call for impea…

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Written by Ken Alpern on July 25 2019.

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Written by Chris Rowe on July 23 2019.

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Written by Richard Lee Abrams on July 23 2019.

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Written by Daniel Guss on July 22 2019.

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Written by Joel Kotkin on July 22 2019.

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Written by Tom H. Hastings on July 22 2019.

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Written by Tim Deegan on July 22 2019.

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Written by Richard Lee Abrams on July 18 2019.

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Written by Dennis P. Zine on July 18 2019.

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Written by Jill Richardson on July 18 2019.

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Written by Bob Gelfand on July 18 2019.

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Written by Charlotte Laws on July 18 2019.

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