## In the News [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/b1/062a-b1f8f08b.jpg) ](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) ### [ $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 [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/ae/064h-ae29651b.jpg) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=29355:remembering-ken-draper-citywatch-and-transparency-are-his-legacy&catid=12) ### [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 [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/9b/061a-9b0a2dba.jpg) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33148:brace-yourself-for-a-worse-housing-crisis&catid=398) ### [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 [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/8e/063g-8e92d8f0.jpg) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33173:netanyahus-challengers-are-selling-the-same-poison&catid=332) ### [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 --- [![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/8f/018x-8f433672.png)](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23978:empty-residential-hotels-downtown-why-didn-t-legal-aid-foundation-atty-barbara-schultz-prevent-it&catid=375) VOICES ## [ Empty Residential Hotels Downtown. Why Didn’t Legal Aid Foundation Atty Barbara Schultz Prevent It? ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23978:empty-residential-hotels-downtown-why-didn-t-legal-aid-foundation-atty-barbara-schultz-prevent-it&catid=375) HOUSING WATCH - In 2017, as an urgent response to Los Angeles’ worsening homelessness crisis, AIDS Healthcare Foundation, the world’s largest HIV/AIDS medical-care nonprofit, decided to buy old residential hotels and motels in the L.A. are… ### More Coverage - [Truckers, Tractors, And Ukraine: What Do They Tell Us About Democracy?](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23969:truckers-tractors-and-ukraine-what-do-they-tell-us-about-democracy&catid=375) - [Am I In Heaven Or Just Flying Out Of Palm Springs Airport?](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23967:am-i-in-heaven-or-just-flying-out-of-palm-springs-airport&catid=375) - [Vote To Reduce Plastics and Clean Up Our Environment](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23965:vote-to-reduce-plastics-and-clean-up-our-environment&catid=375) [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Mar-2022/018v.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23977:talk-is-cheap-we-will-never-defeat-russia-if-we-re-buying-their-oil&catid=375)VOICES ## [Talk is Cheap: We Will Never Defeat Russia If We're Buying Their Oil](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23977:talk-is-cheap-we-will-never-defeat-russia-if-we-re-buying-their-oil&catid=375) But I am also NOT a fan of double-talk and BS'ing the American people. Like it or not, President Joe Biden has made a career out of lying, double-talk, and plagiarism. He was elected only because his name was NOT Donald Trump. And now th… --- [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/92/018h-92fcdc8d.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23969:truckers-tractors-and-ukraine-what-do-they-tell-us-about-democracy&catid=375)### [Truckers, Tractors, And Ukraine: What Do They Tell Us About Democracy?](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23969:truckers-tractors-and-ukraine-what-do-they-tell-us-about-democracy&catid=375) TRUCKER PROTEST - Amidst pictures of the new war in Ukraine, the U.S. is anticipating photos of truck convoys arriving in the Washington D… [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/a4/018j-a40701e2.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23967:am-i-in-heaven-or-just-flying-out-of-palm-springs-airport&catid=375)### [Am I In Heaven Or Just Flying Out Of Palm Springs Airport?](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23967:am-i-in-heaven-or-just-flying-out-of-palm-springs-airport&catid=375) AIR TRAVEL - If you’re heading to heaven, you really should fly out of Palm Springs. [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/5e/018l-5e5a5843.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23965:vote-to-reduce-plastics-and-clean-up-our-environment&catid=375)### [Vote To Reduce Plastics and Clean Up Our Environment](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23965:vote-to-reduce-plastics-and-clean-up-our-environment&catid=375) GUEST COMMENTARY - I still remember the poster on the wall at Bell Gardens Intermediate School back in 1987: “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.” [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/e1/018q-e1b1120c.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23958:there-are-two-types-of-men-there-s-ukrainian-president-zelensky-then-there-s-ted-cruz&catid=375)### [There Are Two Types Of Men. There’s Ukrainian President Zelensky & Then There’s Ted Cruz.](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23958:there-are-two-types-of-men-there-s-ukrainian-president-zelensky-then-there-s-ted-cruz&catid=375) GUEST COMMENTARY - Photos of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) are circulating online as a side-by-side profi… [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/fa/017i-fa5d7c76.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23954:the-persistence-of-the-white-racist-police-state&catid=375)### [The Persistence of the Racist Police State](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23954:the-persistence-of-the-white-racist-police-state&catid=375) GUEST COMMENTARY - I almost never cease to be stunned by the white racist violence of the U.S.-American criminal justice system. [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/db/017f-dbe8fa2e.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23947:what-the-us-does-not-understand-about-russia&catid=375)### [What the US Does Not Understand About Russia](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23947:what-the-us-does-not-understand-about-russia&catid=375) COMMENTARY - War has begun in Ukraine and where it heads next is uncertain. [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/12/017h-12a97218.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23946:russia-at-war&catid=375)### [Russia At War](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23946:russia-at-war&catid=375) RUSSIA WAR ANALYSIS - Despite the impressive TikTok feeds showing the Russian phalanx heading in formations across the Ukrainian frontier a… [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/00/017j-00ea1822.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23940:creating-peace-means-changing-the-world&catid=375)### [Creating Peace Means Changing The World](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23940:creating-peace-means-changing-the-world&catid=375) COMMENTARY - Only threat, pain and inflicted hell preserve peace, right? [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/0b/017o-0b951e8f.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23936:big-oil-is-trying-to-profit-from-the-war-in-ukraine&catid=375)### [Big Oil Is Trying to Profit from the War in Ukraine](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23936:big-oil-is-trying-to-profit-from-the-war-in-ukraine&catid=375) WINDS OF WAR - Putin’s tanks had barely crossed the border into Ukraine before the American Petroleum Institute (API) was out on Twitter at… [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/eb/016s-eb806e81.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23930:not-your-champion&catid=375)### [Not Your Champion](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23930:not-your-champion&catid=375) OPINION - Dear America: Donald Trump is no more your savior than Hitler was Germany’s savior. Regain your consciousness. [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/b4/016z2-b47d61f3.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23924:can-we-have-a-do-over-for-2022&catid=375)### [Can We Have a Do Over for 2022?](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23924:can-we-have-a-do-over-for-2022&catid=375) MY THOUGHTS - This was not the article I was planning for this week’s column. [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/6e/016z-6e5de346.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23923:why-gerrymandering-could-get-way-worse&catid=375)### [Why Gerrymandering Could Get Way Worse](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23923:why-gerrymandering-could-get-way-worse&catid=375) POLITICS WATCH - Republicans are gerrymandering themselves into entrenched minority power, unless we stop them now. [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/6d/016a-6dd9b227.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23918:micro-aggression-v-bullying&catid=375)### [Micro-Aggression v Bullying](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23918:micro-aggression-v-bullying&catid=375) COMMENTARY - A few months ago, I was accused of micro-aggression because I refused to post my pronouns in a zoom meeting. [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/0e/016j-0e557243.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23914:who-s-behind-the-people-s-convoy-to-washington-dc&catid=375)### [Who’s Behind the People’s Convoy to Washington DC?](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23914:who-s-behind-the-people-s-convoy-to-washington-dc&catid=375) AGAINST MANDATES - Thousands of truckers are being hijacked by anti-vax loonies and encouraged to parade through red state America in searc… [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/14/016h-14a159e4.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23908:putin-s-advance-into-ukraine-compares-with-saddam-hussein-s-invasion-of-kuwait-a-disaster-for-russia&catid=375)### [Putin’s Advance Into Ukraine Compares with Saddam Hussein’s Invasion of Kuwait…a Disaster for Russia](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23908:putin-s-advance-into-ukraine-compares-with-saddam-hussein-s-invasion-of-kuwait-a-disaster-for-russia&catid=375) MILITARY AGGRESSION - On 2 August 1990, Saddam Hussein ordered the Iraqi army to invade and occupy Kuwait in an operation that led to Iraq’… [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/06/015z1-060f5324.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23894:gop-attacks-on-voting-already-impacting-2022-primaries&catid=375)### [GOP Attacks on Voting Already Impacting 2022 Primaries](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23894:gop-attacks-on-voting-already-impacting-2022-primaries&catid=375) VOTING RIGHTS - The attacks on our democracy are moving into the 2022 primary elections. [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/48/015w-48f07fcb.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23891:it-s-presidents-day-and-we-hate-them-and-they-ve-earned-our-hatred&catid=375)### [It's Presidents Day...And We Hate Them...And They've Earned Our Hatred](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23891:it-s-presidents-day-and-we-hate-them-and-they-ve-earned-our-hatred&catid=375) The Doctor is IN: As the physical, mental, economic, and certainly emotional health of each and every one of you reading this goes down, we… [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/aa/015q2-aa01dc5d.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23886:erasure-or-remembrance-japanese-internment-80-years-later&catid=375)### [Erasure or Remembrance? — Japanese Internment 80 Years Later](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23886:erasure-or-remembrance-japanese-internment-80-years-later&catid=375) HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE - Feb. 19 marks the 80th anniversary of when Terminal Island’s residents became the first Japanese Americans on the… [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/bb/015a-bb03048b.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23881:top-5-burning-questions-that-l-a-city-hall-and-legal-aid-foundation-attorney-barbara-schultz-must-answer&catid=375)### [Top 5 Burning Questions that L.A. 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