## 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/component/ajax/?p=cache/99/089s-9953d964.png&src=images/stories/Nov-2021/089s.png&thumbnail=1300,500,&hash=b47b6b7a)](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22978:the-problem-with-vaccine-mandates&catid=375) VOICES ## [ The Problem With Vaccine Mandates ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22978:the-problem-with-vaccine-mandates&catid=375) I regularly see the horse and buggy operations on the road. Who am I to tell these people that I know better about how they should live than they do? Very Few Amish People Are Getting The COVID Vaccine and Amish Communities Have Experience… ### More Coverage - [The Religious Right is Crowing They Won the Virginia Governor’s Race By Sowing Fear of Trans People](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22970:the-religious-right-is-crowing-they-won-the-virginia-governor-s-race-by-sowing-fear-of-trans-people&catid=375) - [Why Do Supreme Court Justices Keep Saying They’re Not Hacks](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22969:why-do-supreme-court-justices-keep-saying-they-re-not-hacks&catid=375) - [Was the Afghan War a Schell Game?](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22967:was-the-afghan-war-a-schell-game&catid=375) [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/cd/089j-cd3e2f04.png&src=images/stories/Nov-2021/089j.png&thumbnail=610,339,&hash=d0ac84dc) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22974:msnbc-failed-at-due-diligence-on-in-the-dark-of-the-valley-documentary&catid=375)VOICES ## [MSNBC Failed at Due Diligence on "In the Dark of the Valley" Documentary ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22974:msnbc-failed-at-due-diligence-on-in-the-dark-of-the-valley-documentary&catid=375) The “NBC Nightly News” is the primary source of my daily national and international news. I also record the “Rachel Maddow Show” and “Morning Joe” as my best sources of information at the National level – both of these shows are on MSNBC… --- [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/7a/088z2-7a085b3e.png&src=images/stories/Nov-2021/088z2.png&thumbnail=1200,1000,&hash=aca1bcda) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22970:the-religious-right-is-crowing-they-won-the-virginia-governor-s-race-by-sowing-fear-of-trans-people&catid=375)### [The Religious Right is Crowing They Won the Virginia Governor’s Race By Sowing Fear of Trans People](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22970:the-religious-right-is-crowing-they-won-the-virginia-governor-s-race-by-sowing-fear-of-trans-people&catid=375) LGBTQ NATION - Religious right organizations and evangelical leaders are bragging that they are responsible for Republican Glenn Youngkin’s… [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/13/088i-13abfedd.png&src=images/stories/Nov-2021/088i.png&thumbnail=1200,1000,&hash=18ad5d7e) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22969:why-do-supreme-court-justices-keep-saying-they-re-not-hacks&catid=375)### [Why Do Supreme Court Justices Keep Saying They’re Not Hacks](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22969:why-do-supreme-court-justices-keep-saying-they-re-not-hacks&catid=375) THE COURT - Ralph Waldo Emerson once told about a guest who came to dinner and spent the entire evening prattling about his own integrity… [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/e9/088y-e90e939d.png&src=images/stories/Nov-2021/088y.png&thumbnail=1200,1000,&hash=57b61763) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22967:was-the-afghan-war-a-schell-game&catid=375)### [Was the Afghan War a Schell Game?](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22967:was-the-afghan-war-a-schell-game&catid=375) A POV - I waited almost three months for some acknowledgement, but it never came. Not a bottle of champagne. Not a congratulatory note. Not… [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/8d/088s-8d623b6b.png&src=images/stories/Nov-2021/088s.png&thumbnail=1200,1000,&hash=f41593d3) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22962:democrats-have-a-choice-embrace-progressive-populism-or-suffer-a-trumpian-fascist-future&catid=375)### [Democrats Have a Choice: Embrace Progressive Populism or Suffer a Trumpian Fascist Future](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22962:democrats-have-a-choice-embrace-progressive-populism-or-suffer-a-trumpian-fascist-future&catid=375) ANALYSIS - Populism was the big winner in the Virginia election yesterday, after Terry McCauliffe ran on his past as a Bill Clinton Democra… [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/a8/088l-a86cadf6.png&src=images/stories/Nov-2021/088l.png&thumbnail=1200,1000,&hash=b46c6dc5) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22957:let-local-residents-govern-the-california-baja-border&catid=375)### [Let Local Residents Govern the California – Baja Border](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22957:let-local-residents-govern-the-california-baja-border&catid=375) BORDER WATCH - To: Baja California Gov.-elect Marina del Pilar Ávila and California Gov. Gavin Newsom [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/95/088v-9511fc87.png&src=images/stories/Nov-2021/088v.png&thumbnail=1200,1000,&hash=98ffc436) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22949:we-re-not-gonna-take-it-anymore&catid=375)### [We’re Not Gonna Take It Anymore!](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22949:we-re-not-gonna-take-it-anymore&catid=375) VOICES - Stop with the telemarketing calls, already. They are a plague on our society - invasive, abusive, and waking people who need their… ### [Greetings Neighbor and Miguel Morales ASM39](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22939:greetings-neighbor-and-miguel-morales-asm39&catid=375) VOICES - The CalTrans response on Nov. 1st to remove the homeless encampment on the San Fernando Mission Blvd. southbound 405 freeway on-ra… ### [Response to Abby Zimet article](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22938:response-to-abby-zimet-article&catid=375) ANOTHER VOICE - In a recent article, dated November 1, 2021 "Talk About Teetering Edge of a Regime", your reporter stated that an event for… [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/3d/087g-3dc09df9.png&src=images/stories/Nov-2021/087g.png&thumbnail=1200,1000,&hash=c7353504) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22929:u-s-issues-first-passport-with-non-binary-x-gender-marker-in-historic-move&catid=375)### [U.S. Issues First Passport With Non-Binary “X” Gender Marker In Historic Move](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22929:u-s-issues-first-passport-with-non-binary-x-gender-marker-in-historic-move&catid=375) GENDER POLITICS - The U.S. issued its first passport with an “X” gender marker this week, which LGBTQ advocates hailed as a historic moment… [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/68/087n-68cb5fec.png&src=images/stories/Nov-2021/087n.png&thumbnail=1200,1000,&hash=827e2072) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22924:laundered-legacies&catid=375)### [Laundered Legacies](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22924:laundered-legacies&catid=375) HISTORY REPEATS - When Richard Nixon died, those of us on the antiwar side of the barricades during his misbegotten presidency were driven… [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/97/087t-97cbb4f9.png&src=images/stories/Nov-2021/087t.png&thumbnail=1200,1000,&hash=5f1dd5d9) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22918:here-come-the-abortion-bounty-hunters&catid=375)### [Here Come the Abortion Bounty Hunters](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22918:here-come-the-abortion-bounty-hunters&catid=375) VOICES - Texas’s cruel new anti-abortion law is more than just an unconstitutional restriction on reproductive choice. It’s also an egregio… [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/6d/087v-6d4923a9.png&src=images/stories/Nov-2021/087v.png&thumbnail=1200,1000,&hash=53e8d9e8) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22917:what-happens-when-the-weakest-link-in-the-chain-is-you&catid=375)### [What Happens When The Weakest Link In The Chain Is You?](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22917:what-happens-when-the-weakest-link-in-the-chain-is-you&catid=375) SUPPLY CHAIN MELTDOWN - To some in the Biden Administration, the supply chain crisis can be dismissed as a loss of East Asian-made consumer… [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/7b/087x-7b88b47c.png&src=images/stories/Nov-2021/087x.png&thumbnail=1200,1000,&hash=c08f1edf) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22916:galperin-will-leave-a-legacy-of-responsibility-and-transparency&catid=375)### [Galperin Will Leave a Legacy of Responsibility and Transparency](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22916:galperin-will-leave-a-legacy-of-responsibility-and-transparency&catid=375) COMMENTARY - The recently released preliminary financial report for the City of Los Angeles by Ron Galperin is a refreshing breeze in an at… [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/79/086z2-7942596e.png&src=images/stories/Oct-2021/086z2.png&thumbnail=1200,1000,&hash=c653a424) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22903:no-one-was-prepared-for-a-delusional-president&catid=375)### [No One Was Prepared For A Delusional President ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22903:no-one-was-prepared-for-a-delusional-president&catid=375) AT LENGTH - If you were looking at things from the outside over the past four years, it would look like the plot of a crazy movie that only… [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/d3/086w-d330a8c3.png&src=images/stories/Oct-2021/086w.png&thumbnail=1200,1000,&hash=7d49201e) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22889:the-medical-injury-compensation-act-micra-is-rigged-against-you&catid=375)### [The Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act (MICRA) is Rigged Against You](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22889:the-medical-injury-compensation-act-micra-is-rigged-against-you&catid=375) MEDICAL FAIRNESS - In California, pregnant women begged for help, their cries were ignored, and they died from preeclampsia, forcibly remov… [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/67/086m-67c72e51.png&src=images/stories/Oct-2021/086m.png&thumbnail=1200,1000,&hash=62ff6185) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22888:this-is-a-take-this-job-and-shove-it-moment-in-history&catid=375)### [This Is a 'Take This Job and Shove It' Moment in History](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22888:this-is-a-take-this-job-and-shove-it-moment-in-history&catid=375) WORK FORCE - I've seen a lot of good folk die, Who had a lot of bills to pay [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/5c/086n-5cf5d170.png&src=images/stories/Oct-2021/086n.png&thumbnail=1200,1000,&hash=4ce5c233) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22884:kyrsten-sinema-don-t-touch-me-unless-you-re-holding-lotsa-pharma-campaign-cash&catid=375)### [Kyrsten Sinema: Don't Touch Me (Unless You're Holding Lotsa Pharma Campaign Cash)](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22884:kyrsten-sinema-don-t-touch-me-unless-you-re-holding-lotsa-pharma-campaign-cash&catid=375) POLITICS WATCH - Hey, here's another day of Arizona's "Democratic" Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, aka "A Pharma favorite" in Congress and Corporation… [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/73/086h-7396089f.png&src=images/stories/Oct-2021/086h.png&thumbnail=1200,1000,&hash=94ddb24a) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22883:why-is-u-s-military-spending-increasing-to-new-outlandish-levels&catid=375)### [Why is U.S. Military Spending Increasing to New, Outlandish Levels?](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22883:why-is-u-s-military-spending-increasing-to-new-outlandish-levels&catid=375) MILITARY COMPLEX - Although critics of the Biden administration’s Build Back Better plan to increase funding for U.S. education, healthcare… [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/c2/085j-c29bbb27.png&src=images/stories/Oct-2021/085j.png&thumbnail=1200,1000,&hash=2f81bb4a) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22870:respect-for-the-u-s-has-soared-around-the-globe-since-biden-became-pres&catid=375)### [Respect for the U.S. Has Soared Around the Globe Since Biden Became Pres.](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22870:respect-for-the-u-s-has-soared-around-the-globe-since-biden-became-pres&catid=375) WORLD PERSPECTIVE - Respect for the United States has skyrocketed around the globe now that former president Donald Trump is out of office. 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