##  In the News

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### [Trump World. From Assassination Abroad to Chaos at Home](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33277:trump-world-from-assassination-abroad-to-chaos-at-home&catid=395)

August 31 2026

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### [Zuckerberg May Finally Pay a Price for Preying on Our Children](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33261:zuckerberg-may-finally-pay-a-price-for-preying-on-our-children&catid=375)

August 27 2026

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### [Newsom’s Next Immigration Gamble: Defy Federal Law And Dare Washington To Fight Back](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33283:newsoms-next-immigration-gamble-defy-federal-law-and-dare-washington-to-fight-back&catid=375)

August 31 2026

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### [Nithya Raman Has Yet to Address Hasan Piker’s Antisemitism Controversy](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33275:nithya-raman-has-yet-to-address-hasan-pikers-antisemitism-controversy&catid=375)

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#  LOS ANGELES

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### Free Metro? Who Pays the Billion-Dollar Bill?

Written by Yonthan Mendal on August 24 2026.

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## [An Ugly Reality Faces a “Hail Mary” Hope: Bass Does a Garcetti Change…In Reverse](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33242:an-ugly-reality-faces-a-hail-mary-hope-bass-does-a-garcetti-change-in-reverse&catid=312)

ALPERN AT LARGE - In my most recent piece, I gave a two-pronged approach to a second Karen Bass mayoral term: Four more years of Karen Bass at lea…

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Written by CityWatch on August 21 2026.

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Written by Patrick Range McDonald on August 20 2026.

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Written by NICK PATSAOURAS on August 20 2026.

 [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/d6/065g-d600c1bb.jpg) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33223:raman-paid-for-failure-will-the-council-president&catid=312)### [Raman Paid for Failure. Will the Council President?](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33223:raman-paid-for-failure-will-the-council-president&catid=312)

Written by Mihran Kalaydjian – Jay Handal on August 17 2026.

 [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/98/065k-985757d3.jpg) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33220:olympics-la28-controls-the-money-trapping-city-hall-and-taxpayers&catid=312)### [Olympics: LA28 Controls the Money, Trapping City Hall and Taxpayers](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33220:olympics-la28-controls-the-money-trapping-city-hall-and-taxpayers&catid=312)

Written by NICK PATSAOURAS on August 17 2026.

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Written by CityWatch Staff on August 17 2026.

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Written by Eliot Cohen on August 17 2026.

 [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/10/065l-1045f631.jpg) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33216:the-cynicism-of-homelessness&catid=312)### [The Cynicism of Homelessness](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33216:the-cynicism-of-homelessness&catid=312)

Written by Tim Campbell on August 17 2026.

 [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/2f/065m-2f285fcf.jpg) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33215:a-second-karen-bass-term-gets-her-and-us-four-more-years-of-well-earned-voter-outrage&catid=312)### [A Second Karen Bass Term Gets Her (and Us) Four More Years Of Well-Earned Voter Outrage](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33215:a-second-karen-bass-term-gets-her-and-us-four-more-years-of-well-earned-voter-outrage&catid=312)

Written by Ken Alpern on August 17 2026.

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Written by CityWatch on August 17 2026.

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Written by CityWatch on August 14 2026.

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Written by Dennis P. Zine on August 13 2026.

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Written by Ziggy Kruse Blue and Bob Blue on August 13 2026.

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Written by Eva Amar on August 13 2026.

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Written by Thomas Glick on August 10 2026.

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Written by NICK PATSAOURAS on August 10 2026.

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Written by Caroline Aguirre on August 08 2026.

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Written by NICK PATSAOURAS on August 10 2026.

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