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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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### Uh-oh: Councilmember Admits Vulgarities, Personal Attacks are Free Speech

Written by Daniel Guss on October 01 2018.

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  [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/00/079l-00fff44a.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=16297:kavanaugh-nomination-the-forest-itself-is-diseased&catid=312)Written by Richard Lee Abrams on October 01 2018. Posted in [LOS ANGELES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=312).

## [Kavanaugh Nomination: The Forest Itself Is Diseased](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=16297:kavanaugh-nomination-the-forest-itself-is-diseased&catid=312)

While one cannot generalize that one diseased tree could infect an entire forest, but sometimes that tree or a grove of diseased trees is so signific…

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 [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/aa/079m-aa2a0dc5.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=16296:the-dilemma-of-the-liberal-white-male-in-an-age-of-identity-politics&catid=312)### [The Dilemma of the Liberal White Male in an Age of Identity Politics](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=16296:the-dilemma-of-the-liberal-white-male-in-an-age-of-identity-politics&catid=312)

Written by Jeff Allen on October 01 2018.

 [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/de/079n-de5e0415.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=16295:tech-schools-a-way-out-for-thousands&catid=312)### [Tech Schools … A Way Out for Thousands?](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=16295:tech-schools-a-way-out-for-thousands&catid=312)

Written by Jay Handal on October 01 2018.

 [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/f2/079o-f24b47ab.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=16294:make-no-mistake-kavanaugh-will-devote-his-career-to-making-women-pay&catid=312)### [Make No Mistake: Kavanaugh Will Devote His Career to Making Women Pay](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=16294:make-no-mistake-kavanaugh-will-devote-his-career-to-making-women-pay&catid=312)

Written by S. Novi on October 01 2018.

 [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/c5/079r-c51f51ce.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=16292:air-wars-over-the-valley&catid=312)### [Air Wars Over the Valley](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=16292:air-wars-over-the-valley&catid=312)

Written by Paul Hatfield on October 01 2018.

 [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/68/079t-68118239.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=16290:binge-drinking-sexual-assault-and-entitlement&catid=312)### [Binge Drinking, Sexual Assault, and Entitlement](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=16290:binge-drinking-sexual-assault-and-entitlement&catid=312)

Written by Beth Cone Kramer on October 01 2018.

 [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/31/078a-31a654ef.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=16287:troubling-purple-line-questions-just-keep-piling-up-no-answers-from-the-city&catid=312)### [Troubling Purple Line Questions Just Keep Piling Up … No Answers from the City ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=16287:troubling-purple-line-questions-just-keep-piling-up-no-answers-from-the-city&catid=312)

Written by Dick Platkin on September 27 2018.

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Written by Richard Lee Abrams on September 27 2018.

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Written by Dennis P. Zine on September 27 2018.

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Written by Jay Handal on September 27 2018.

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Written by Tony Butka on September 27 2018.

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Written by Kenneth S. Alpern on September 27 2018.

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Written by Bob Gelfand on September 27 2018.

 [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/e2/078n-e20b53fb.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=16277:brett-kavanaugh-symbolic-of-a-culture-that-refuses-to-die&catid=312)### [Brett Kavanaugh: Symbolic of a Culture that Refuses to Die](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=16277:brett-kavanaugh-symbolic-of-a-culture-that-refuses-to-die&catid=312)

Written by David Bell on September 27 2018.

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Written by Leonard Isenberg on September 27 2018.

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Written by Laurel Rosenhall on September 27 2018.

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Written by James Preston Allen on September 27 2018.

 [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/2d/077b-2de87ea1.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=16271:stupid-choices-equal-stupid-results-are-these-really-adults-running-la-and-sacramento&catid=312)### [Stupid Choices Equal Stupid Results: Are These Really Adults Running LA and Sacramento?](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=16271:stupid-choices-equal-stupid-results-are-these-really-adults-running-la-and-sacramento&catid=312)

Written by Kenneth S. Alpern on September 27 2018.

 [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/6a/077c-6af0a55f.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=16270:southcentralfarmwatch-and-what-it-means-for-la-and-our-planet&catid=312)### [\#SouthCentralFarmWatch – And What It Means for LA and Our Planet](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=16270:southcentralfarmwatch-and-what-it-means-for-la-and-our-planet&catid=312)

Written by Michael Feinstein on September 27 2018.

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