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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)

September 10 2026

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September 10 2026

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### [Olympics: LA28’s Drip‑Drip‑Drip Tactics Leave Los Angeles Holding the Bag](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33314:olympics-la28s-drip-drip-drip-tactics-leave-los-angeles-holding-the-bag&catid=312)

September 07 2026

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### [$1 Billion Later, Congress Comes Knocking: Los Angeles’ Homelessness Machine Faces Its Day of Reckoning](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33321:1-billion-later-congress-comes-knocking-los-angeles-homelessness-machine-faces-its-day-of-reckoning&catid=396)

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#  STATE WATCH

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### California Dreamin’

Written by Joel Kotkin on November 15 2021.

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## [Special Investigation: California Apartment Association’s Deep-Pocketed Campaign To Kill Tenant Protections](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23054:special-investigation-california-apartment-association-s-deep-pocketed-campaign-to-kill-tenant-protections&catid=385)

It shapes, and stops, housing policies in the back rooms of the State Capitol Building in Sacramento, and fights to kill local tenant protections in…

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Written by Rachel Becker on November 15 2021.

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Written by Sameea Kamal on November 11 2021.

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Written by Grace Gedye and Jesse Bedayn on October 28 2021.

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Written by Rachel Becker on September 23 2021.

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Written by Shelly Hart on October 21 2019.

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Written by Shelly Hart on October 11 2019.

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Written by Shelly Hart on September 30 2019.

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