##  In the News

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### [Reminder to the Red States, Turnabout is Fair Play](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33212:reminder-to-the-red-states-turnabout-is-fair-play&catid=395)

August 17 2026

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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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### [California’s Empty Classrooms Are a Warning Sacramento Can’t Ignore](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33213:californias-empty-classrooms-are-a-warning-sacramento-cant-ignore&catid=378)

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### The Best of Life List

Written by Liz Amsden on December 26 2022.

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## [Astronaut Edgar Mitchell’s ‘State of the Planet’ Message Revisited](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=26184:astronaut-edgar-mitchell-s-state-of-the-planet-message-revisited&catid=375)

GUEST COMMENTARY - Imagine being confined to a space the size of a car’s interior in the pitch blackness of outer space for three days. Your spacecra…

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Written by Richard Lee Abrams on December 26 2022.

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Written by Ruth Conniff on December 22 2022.

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Written by Dennis P. Zine on December 22 2022.

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Written by Richard Lee Abrams on December 22 2022.

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Written by Brett Wilkins on December 19 2022.

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Written by Mark Dutton on December 19 2022.

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Written by Matthew Hetz on December 25 2025.

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Written by Liz Amsden on December 19 2022.

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Written by Liz Amsden on December 15 2022.

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Written by Brett Wilkins on December 15 2022.

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Written by Caroline Aguirre on December 15 2022.

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Written by Richard Lee Abrams on December 15 2022.

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Written by Liz Amsden on December 15 2022.

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Written by Richard Lee Abrams on December 13 2022.

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Written by Liz Amsden on December 08 2022.

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