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### Memo To LA and CA Leaders: Go Trump Yourself!

Written by Kenneth S. Alpern on January 30 2017.

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## [Non-Confrontational Development: A DTLA Success](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12526:non-confrontational-development-a-dtla-success&catid=312)

DEEGAN ON LA-It’s hard to find building projects that create no public outcry about zoning variances, no destructive impacts to neighborhoods, and no…

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Written by Bill Raden on January 30 2017.

 [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/34/509m-34353a22.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12522:the-meaning-of-resistance&catid=312)### [The Meaning Of Resistance](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12522:the-meaning-of-resistance&catid=312)

Written by Sara Roos on January 30 2017.

 [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/79/509n-795369ec.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12520:which-way-for-la-planned-transit-and-density-through-measure-s-or-the-unplanned-jumble-that-measure-s-opponents-hope-to-maintain&catid=312)### [Which way for LA? Planned transit and density through Measure S or the unplanned jumble that Measure S opponents hope to maintain.](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12520:which-way-for-la-planned-transit-and-density-through-measure-s-or-the-unplanned-jumble-that-measure-s-opponents-hope-to-maintain&catid=312)

Written by Dick Platkin on January 30 2017.

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Written by Richard Lee Abrams on January 26 2017.

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Written by Julie Butcher on January 26 2017.

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Written by John Mirisch on January 26 2017.

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Written by Dick Platkin on January 26 2017.

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Written by Tony Butka on January 26 2017.

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Written by Joshua Leibner on January 26 2017.

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Written by Bob Gelfand on January 26 2017.

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Written by Sara Roos on January 26 2017.

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Written by Bobbi Murray on January 26 2017.

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Written by Eric Preven and Joshua Preven on January 23 2017.

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Written by Brady Westwater on January 23 2017.

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Written by Kamala Harris on January 23 2017.

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Written by Daniel Guss on January 23 2017.

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Written by Austin Beutner on January 23 2017.

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Written by Richard Lee Abrams on January 23 2017.

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