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### [ $4.4 Billion Later: Inside the Broken Machinery of Los Angeles’ Homelessness System](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33163:4-4-billion-later-inside-the-broken-machinery-of-los-angeles-homelessness-system&catid=312)

August 06 2026

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### [Remembering Ken Draper: CityWatch and Transparency Are his Legacy](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=29355:remembering-ken-draper-citywatch-and-transparency-are-his-legacy&catid=12)

August 07 2025

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### [Brace Yourself For A Worse Housing Crisis](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33148:brace-yourself-for-a-worse-housing-crisis&catid=398)

August 03 2026

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### [Netanyahu’s Challengers Are Selling The Same Poison](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33173:netanyahus-challengers-are-selling-the-same-poison&catid=332)

August 10 2026

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##  [ Ideology and Politics Threaten America’s Oldest Institution ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19741:ideology-and-politics-threaten-america-s-oldest-institution&catid=376)

“For more than four decades, USPS has faced calls for privatization,” a February 2020 report from the Institute for Policy Studies noted. “Think tanks have led the charge, supported by corporations like United Parcel Service and FedEx that…

###  More Coverage

- [Controller Launches COVID-19 Resource Hub](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19687:controller-launches-covid-19-resource-hub&catid=376)
- [TENANTS CHOOSE FOOD NOT RENT!](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19666:tenants-choose-food-not-rent&catid=376)
- [Heroic, Angry Badger Voters Show How to Dump Trump](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19607:heroic-angry-badger-voters-show-how-to-dump-trump&catid=376)

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## [1,800+ Free Food Resources Statewide to Help Californians Access Healthy Meals](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19722:1-800-free-food-resources-statewide-to-help-californians-access-healthy-meals&catid=376)

This follows Galperin’s release of two local Southern California food resource maps tracking all of the food banks and pantries in the City and County of Los Angeles, which were used by tens of thousands of people within days of their rele…

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### [Controller Launches COVID-19 Resource Hub](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19687:controller-launches-covid-19-resource-hub&catid=376)

 CORONA WATCH-- L.A. Controller Ron Galperin has released a comprehensive COVID-19 Resource Hub that gathers the latest federal, state and…

### [TENANTS CHOOSE FOOD NOT RENT!](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19666:tenants-choose-food-not-rent&catid=376)

CORONA WATCH--The thousands of members of the L.A. Tenants Union demand that our elected officials enact an immediate cancellation of ren…

### [Heroic, Angry Badger Voters Show How to Dump Trump](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19607:heroic-angry-badger-voters-show-how-to-dump-trump&catid=376)

 WHAT THEY’RE SAYING--This week’s astonishing people’s victory in Wisconsin has shattered the myth of an unbeatable Trump dictatorship. A…

### [Why You’re Going Broke While the Rich Get Richer](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19589:why-you-re-going-broke-while-the-rich-get-richer&catid=376)

 WHAT THEY’RE SAYING--A fine gentleman named Nigel — not Farage, don’t worry — wrote to me recently to ask a question that’s probably on…

### [Joe Biden Must Step Aside Now](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19551:joe-biden-must-step-aside-now&catid=376)

WHAT THEY’RE SAYING--Joe Biden must step aside. NOW!!! Someone else must be the Democratic Party’s nominee to run against Donald Trump…

### [Trump Labor Dept Accused of 'Twisting the Law' to Slash Paid Sick Leave Amid Pandemic](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19535:trump-labor-dept-accused-of-twisting-the-law-to-slash-paid-sick-leave-amid-pandemic&catid=376)

WHAT THEY’RE SAYING--National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci, Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia and A…

### [AOC Won’t Give a Penny to the DCCC, and Good for Her.](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19515:aoc-won-t-give-a-penny-to-the-dccc-and-good-for-her&catid=376)

 WHAT THEY’RE SAYING--Among politicians all across the United States and even the world, few have even come close to being the force that…

### [Walmart Almost Charged Criminally Over Opioids. Trump Appointees Killed the Indictment.](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19497:walmart-almost-charged-criminally-over-opioids-trump-appointees-killed-the-indictment&catid=376)

WHAT THEY’RE SAYING--On a Tuesday just before Halloween in 2018, a group of federal prosecutors and agents from Texas arrived in Washingt…

### [If Trump Loses, Expect Violence](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19479:if-trump-loses-expect-violence&catid=376)

 WHAT THEY’RE SAYING--Should Trump lose the 2020 election, someone is going to die. The offices of a left-wing organization will be bombe…

### [Rudy Giuliani: ‘You Should Be Happy for Your Country That I Uncovered This’](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19461:rudy-giuliani-you-should-be-happy-for-your-country-that-i-uncovered-this&catid=376)

WHAT THEY’RE SAYING--When I last saw Rudy Giuliani for lunch, at the Trump International Hotel in Washington four weeks ago, his most pre…

### [How Capitalism Failed (and Took America With It)](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19446:how-capitalism-failed-and-took-america-with-it&catid=376)

 WHAT THEY’RE SAYING--Go ahead and take a look at the chart above. What does it tell you? It tells me I’m looking at a society having the…

### [Fighting for Our Lives: The Movement for Medicare for All](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19428:fighting-for-our-lives-the-movement-for-medicare-for-all&catid=376)

 WHAT THEY’RE SAYING--A critical factor accelerating the spread of coronavirus in the United States is our lack of universal health care…

### [Ex-LA Councilman Englander Charged with Obstruction Alleging Lavish Spending and Escorts](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19411:ex-la-councilman-englander-charged-with-obstruction-alleging-lavish-spending-and-escorts&catid=376)

 WHAT THEY’RE SAYING--Former Los Angeles City Councilman Mitchell Englander has been charged with obstructing an investigation into him a…

### [The Real Losers on Super Tuesday](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19395:the-real-losers-on-super-tuesday&catid=376)

WHAT THEY’RE SAYING-- Primaries can be long drawn-out affairs. The Obama-Clinton struggle of spring-summer 2008 went down to the wire, st…

### [Trump’s RICO Problem](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19377:trump-s-rico-problem&catid=376)

 WHAT THEY’RE SAYING --While Donald Trump’s alleged wrongdoing in the Ukraine Affair has been the focus of impeachment proceedings, the…

### [The Blinding Story of Power](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19357:the-blinding-story-of-power&catid=376)

 WHAT THEY’RE SAYING--If one thing drives me to write, especially these posts, it is the urgent need for us to start understanding power…

### [Trump is the President America Deserves](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19340:trump-is-the-president-america-deserves&catid=376)

 WHAT THEY’RE SAYING--It’s true. If it wasn’t, he wouldn’t. Now, I know what half of you (or 53.9% of you, to be precise) are saying, “…

### [Mark My Words: Bloomberg will Win the Nomination, but It could be Worse](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19305:mark-my-words-bloomberg-will-win-the-nomination-but-it-could-be-worse&catid=376)

WHAT THEY’RE SAYING--Right off the bat, I must disclose my perspective: I am a lifelong liberal Democrat who was an early and enthusiasti…

### [Trump Was Asked What He Learned Since His Impeachment Acquittal](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19290:trump-was-asked-what-he-learned-since-his-impeachment-acquittal&catid=376)

WHAT THEY’RE SAYING--Why some people still believe that the president of the United States of White Nationalism is still a salvageable pi…

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