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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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### Thank You Bill Rosendahl … For a Life Well-Lived

Written by Ken Alpern on February 18 2016.

 ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10560:thank-you-bill-rosendahl-for-a-life-well-lived&catid=312)

  [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Feb-2016/015h.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10559:sketchy-business-model-new-airbnb-ordinance-must-include-honest-reporting&catid=312)Written by Tony Butka on February 18 2016. Posted in [LOS ANGELES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=312).

## [Sketchy Business Model? New Airbnb Ordinance Must Include Honest Reporting](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10559:sketchy-business-model-new-airbnb-ordinance-must-include-honest-reporting&catid=312)

 So let’s see if we can help the City as they huddle in the bowels of City Hall trying to come up with a plan. The real key to enforcing anything i…

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Written by Larry Gross on February 18 2016.

 [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/8b/015j-8be6c185.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10557:ncba-poll-infrastructure-and-homelessness-on-la-s-mind&catid=312)### [NCBA Poll: Infrastructure and Homelessness On LA’s Mind](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10557:ncba-poll-infrastructure-and-homelessness-on-la-s-mind&catid=312)

Written by Denyse Selesnick on February 18 2016.

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Written by Wendell Cox on February 18 2016.

 [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/21/015o-21e52fe1.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10554:it-s-been-a-year-since-the-exxonmobil-blast-is-south-bay-any-safer&catid=312)### [It’s Been a Year Since the ExxonMobil Blast, Is South Bay Any Safer?](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10554:it-s-been-a-year-since-the-exxonmobil-blast-is-south-bay-any-safer&catid=312)

Written by Nick Green on February 18 2016.

 [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/73/015q-7382a2a0.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10552:i-take-public-transit-but-i-hate-it&catid=312)### [‘I Take Public Transit … But I Hate It’](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10552:i-take-public-transit-but-i-hate-it&catid=312)

Written by George Runner on February 18 2016.

 [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/2a/015r-2a0e1399.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10551:helluva-directive-done&catid=312)### [Helluva Directive, DONE!](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10551:helluva-directive-done&catid=312)

Written by Sara Roos on February 18 2016.

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Written by Richard Risemberg on February 18 2016.

 [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/1e/015t-1e800310.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10549:coalition-to-preserve-la-slams-backroom-bonanza-for-la-developers-and-good-friends-at-city-hall&catid=312)### [Coalition to Preserve LA Slams Backroom Bonanza for LA Developers and Good Friends at City Hall](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10549:coalition-to-preserve-la-slams-backroom-bonanza-for-la-developers-and-good-friends-at-city-hall&catid=312)

Written by Jill Stewart on February 18 2016.

 [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/ce/015u-ce7794a7.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10548:an-industry-unto-itself-why-homeless-services-don-t-end-homelessness&catid=312)### [An Industry Unto Itself - Why Homeless Services Don’t End Homelessness](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10548:an-industry-unto-itself-why-homeless-services-don-t-end-homelessness&catid=312)

Written by Tully MacKay-Tisbert on February 18 2016.

 [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/35/014y-351b0639.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10545:councilman-koretz-animal-people-got-it-wrong-i-love-animals&catid=312)### [Councilman Koretz: Animal People Got it Wrong … ‘I Love Animals’](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10545:councilman-koretz-animal-people-got-it-wrong-i-love-animals&catid=312)

Written by Paul Koretz on February 16 2016.

 [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/97/014u-97bcf344.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10536:it-s-time-to-give-the-dwp-a-reboot&catid=312)### [It's Time to Give the DWP a Reboot](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10536:it-s-time-to-give-the-dwp-a-reboot&catid=312)

Written by Mickey Kantor and Austin Beutner on February 15 2016.

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Written by Jenna Susko and Matt Goldbert on February 15 2016.

 [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/9d/014b-9d9cbf7c.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10532:the-common-sense-of-transit-ridership-if-it-makes-sense-it-will-become-more-common&catid=312)### [The ‘Common Sense’ of Transit Ridership: If It Makes ‘Sense’, It Will Become More ‘Common’](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10532:the-common-sense-of-transit-ridership-if-it-makes-sense-it-will-become-more-common&catid=312)

Written by Ken Alpern on February 15 2016.

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Written by Shani Shahmoon on February 15 2016.

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Written by Beth Cone Kramer on February 15 2016.

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Written by Fred Mariscal on February 15 2016.

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Written by Ken Hixon on February 16 2016.

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Written by Joe Linton on February 15 2016.

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