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### [When the Last-Minute Power Play Failed: Sacramento Finally Ran Out of Time](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33319:when-the-last-minute-power-play-failed-sacramento-finally-ran-out-of-time&catid=375)

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#  LOS ANGELES

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### Netanyahu’s Defunct Strategy to Keep Hamas at Bay

Written by Alon Ben-Meir on May 09 2019.

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## [Census Citizenship Questions Threaten California … Here’s How](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=17639:census-citizenship-questions-threaten-california-here-s-how&catid=312)

It will also ask citizens if they were born in Puerto Rico or Guam, if they were naturalized and when, and whether they were born outside of the coun…

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Written by Jill Richardson on May 09 2019.

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Written by Dennis P. Zine on May 09 2019.

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Written by Tony Butka on May 09 2019.

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Written by Gina K. Thornburg on May 09 2019.

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Written by Robert Hunziker on May 09 2019.

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Written by Bob Gelfand on May 09 2019.

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Written by Dick Platkin on May 09 2019.

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Written by Richard Lee Abrams on May 06 2019.

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Written by James Preston Allen on May 06 2019.

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Written by Bobby Murray on May 06 2019.

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Written by Kenneth S. Alpern, M.D. on May 06 2019.

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Written by Shelley Wagers on May 06 2019.

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Written by Daniel Guss on May 06 2019.

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Written by Tim Deegan on May 06 2019.

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Written by Juliette Kayyem on May 06 2019.

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Written by Brad S. Kane on May 06 2019.

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Written by Beth Cone Kramer on May 06 2019.

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Written by Richard Lee Abrams on May 03 2019.

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