## 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/39/077w-399583d9.png&src=images/stories/Sept-2021/077w.png&thumbnail=1300,500,&hash=bf361829)](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22666:texas-sized-troubles&catid=375) VOICES ## [ Texas-sized Troubles ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22666:texas-sized-troubles&catid=375) If your wife has been diagnosed with an ectopic pregnancy that requires the fetus to be aborted, or she will die. If she dies before term, the state can keep her body on machines so that the baby can live. Or you can face the justice of… ### More Coverage - [The China Initiative, a Flawed and dysfunctional Policy ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22651:the-china-initiative-a-flawed-and-dysfunctional-policy&catid=375) - [Women’s Rights: Afghanistan and Beyond ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22650:women-s-rights-afghanistan-and-beyond&catid=375) - [Taliban Cops vs American Cops, Who’s Worse?](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22642:taliban-cops-vs-american-cops-who-s-worse&catid=375) [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/4e/077l-4eb566d6.png&src=images/stories/Sept-2021/077l.png&thumbnail=610,349,&hash=97b407ab) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22657:missing-voices-in-broadcast-coverage-of-afghan-withdrawal&catid=375)VOICES ## [Missing Voices in Broadcast Coverage of Afghan Withdrawal](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22657:missing-voices-in-broadcast-coverage-of-afghan-withdrawal&catid=375) Just as they did when the war began (Extra!, 11–12/01), corporate journalists overwhelmingly leaned on government and military sources, while offering no clear antiwar voices and vanishingly few perspectives from civil society leaders in e… --- [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/72/077f-72fe821e.png&src=images/stories/Sept-2021/077f.png&thumbnail=1200,1000,&hash=65d851b6) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22651:the-china-initiative-a-flawed-and-dysfunctional-policy&catid=375)### [The China Initiative, a Flawed and dysfunctional Policy ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22651:the-china-initiative-a-flawed-and-dysfunctional-policy&catid=375) PEACE VOICE - President Biden is continuing the disengagement policy toward China that began under Donald Trump, with strong bipartisan sup… [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/e4/077e-e4b7aa84.png&src=images/stories/Sept-2021/077e.png&thumbnail=1200,1000,&hash=f1339b28) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22650:women-s-rights-afghanistan-and-beyond&catid=375)### [Women’s Rights: Afghanistan and Beyond ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22650:women-s-rights-afghanistan-and-beyond&catid=375) PEACE VOICE - Suddenly there’s major concern across the country — from the mainstream media to every last rock-ribbed Republican — for the… [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/52/076z16-52b0056b.png&src=images/stories/Sept-2021/076z16.png&thumbnail=1200,1000,&hash=dc96b867) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22642:taliban-cops-vs-american-cops-who-s-worse&catid=375)### [Taliban Cops vs American Cops, Who’s Worse?](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22642:taliban-cops-vs-american-cops-who-s-worse&catid=375) HUMAN RIGHTS - Journalism needs a new rule. Are you reporting about a human rights violation in another country? If the United States commi… [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/8b/076z13-8b0dd498.png&src=images/stories/Sept-2021/076z13.png&thumbnail=1200,1000,&hash=be3cf221) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22641:texas-sues-biden-admin-for-the-first-amendment-right-to-misgender-trans-people-while-they-work&catid=375)### [Texas sues Biden admin for the First Amendment right to misgender trans people while they work](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22641:texas-sues-biden-admin-for-the-first-amendment-right-to-misgender-trans-people-while-they-work&catid=375) LGBTQ NATION - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) has filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (… [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/48/076z11-48cd2c90.png&src=images/stories/Sept-2021/076z11.png&thumbnail=1200,1000,&hash=09b37f4f) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22639:ain-t-gonna-study-war-no-more&catid=375)### [Ain’t Gonna Study War No More](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22639:ain-t-gonna-study-war-no-more&catid=375) COMMENTARY-I’m going to lay down my sword and shield. . . So why can’t today’s politicians take that to heart? [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/24/076z10-24be1813.png&src=images/stories/Sept-2021/076z10.png&thumbnail=1200,1000,&hash=ca0d02dd) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22638:did-the-media-lose-their-minds-attacking-biden-over-ending-the-afghanistan-war&catid=375)### [Did the Media Lose Their Minds Attacking Biden Over Ending the Afghanistan War?](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22638:did-the-media-lose-their-minds-attacking-biden-over-ending-the-afghanistan-war&catid=375) EASTSIDER - Almost everyone witnessed the news media attacks on Joe Biden as he sought to end the 20-year war in Afghanistan. [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/e5/076z-e5001bda.png&src=images/stories/Sept-2021/076z.png&thumbnail=1200,1000,&hash=a46c5552) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22635:how-corporations-won-the-war-on-terror&catid=375)### [How Corporations Won the War on Terror](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22635:how-corporations-won-the-war-on-terror&catid=375) COMMENTARY - The costs and consequences of America’s twenty-first-century wars have by now been well-documented — a staggering $8 trillion… [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/52/076i-52dadb2d.png&src=images/stories/Sept-2021/076i.png&thumbnail=1200,1000,&hash=8c4db3f1) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22624:like-fdr-biden-should-welcome-special-interests-hatred&catid=375)### [Like FDR, Biden Should Welcome Special Interests Hatred](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22624:like-fdr-biden-should-welcome-special-interests-hatred&catid=375) COMMENTARY - FDR understood that we must fight for what we believe in and not worry about angering powerful special interests. [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/79/076z3-79026591.png&src=images/stories/Sept-2021/076z3.png&thumbnail=1200,1000,&hash=162bf154) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22622:and-then-there-were-guys-on-horseback-we-have-not-yet-forgiven-haiti-for-being-black&catid=375)### [And Then There Were Guys On Horseback: We Have Not Yet Forgiven Haiti For Being Black](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22622:and-then-there-were-guys-on-horseback-we-have-not-yet-forgiven-haiti-for-being-black&catid=375) IMMIGRATION WATCH - For up to 15,000 heartsick Haitians languishing in fear, thirst, hunger and 100-degree temperatures under a bridge in D… [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/a5/075m-a5a990e9.png&src=images/stories/Sept-2021/075m.png&thumbnail=1200,1000,&hash=67cc2084) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22607:what-the-expanded-child-tax-credit-means-to-me&catid=375)### [What the Expanded Child Tax Credit Means to Me ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22607:what-the-expanded-child-tax-credit-means-to-me&catid=375) COMMENTARY - I remember finding out I was about to become a mother. I felt the fear taking hold of me. My brain stopped. I remember crying… [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/41/075n-41f5e51b.png&src=images/stories/Sept-2021/075n.png&thumbnail=1200,1000,&hash=e6aa60cc) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22602:a-national-rite-of-passage-beyond-war&catid=375)### [A national rite of passage: Beyond war](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22602:a-national-rite-of-passage-beyond-war&catid=375) WORDS ON WAR - A recent New York Times op-ed was perhaps the strangest, most awkward and tentative defense of the military-industrial compl… [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/8b/075j-8b70deff.png&src=images/stories/Sept-2021/075j.png&thumbnail=1200,1000,&hash=d95fe55b) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22596:protestors-at-justice-for-j6-rally-in-washington-were-outnumbered-by-police-and-members-of-the-media&catid=375)### [Protestors at 'Justice for J6' Rally in Washington Were Outnumbered by Police and Members of the Media](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22596:protestors-at-justice-for-j6-rally-in-washington-were-outnumbered-by-police-and-members-of-the-media&catid=375) DC RALLY - You know what they say: “Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice ... well, you can’t get fooled again.” [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/27/075i-27502c3c.png&src=images/stories/Sept-2021/075i.png&thumbnail=1200,1000,&hash=88547ea5) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22594:supreme-court-justice-clarence-thomas-finally-said-something-and-i-wish-he-d-stfu&catid=375)### [Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas Finally Said Something, and I Wish He’d STFU](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22594:supreme-court-justice-clarence-thomas-finally-said-something-and-i-wish-he-d-stfu&catid=375) SUPREME VIEW - When Clarence Thomas wasn’t working as a mute-ass puppet for former Justice Antonin Scalia, he literally was a real-life mut… [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/0d/075z1-0d27f0c2.png&src=images/stories/Sept-2021/075z1.png&thumbnail=1200,1000,&hash=ccb8de0e) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22590:don-t-breathe-on-me&catid=375)### [Don’t Breathe on Me, LAPD](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22590:don-t-breathe-on-me&catid=375) COMMENTARY-If the leading cause of death among police is COVID and 20% of the LAPD workforce is requesting exemptions (so they can be more… [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/31/074k-31c95d93.png&src=images/stories/Sept-2021/074k.png&thumbnail=1200,1000,&hash=f821e588) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22584:climate-change-is-the-symptom-capitalism-is-the-problem&catid=375)### [Climate Change Is the Symptom, Capitalism Is the Problem](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22584:climate-change-is-the-symptom-capitalism-is-the-problem&catid=375) COMMON DREAMS - Too often climate change is reduced to quantification of greenhouse glasses or melting ice caps. [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/9c/074z2-9cc1f241.png&src=images/stories/Sept-2021/074z2.png&thumbnail=1200,1000,&hash=bfe51cdf) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22574:why-university-professors-turn-into-raging-developer-stooges-and-sophists-over-housing&catid=375)### [Why University Professors Turn into Raging Developer Stooges (and Sophists) Over Housing](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22574:why-university-professors-turn-into-raging-developer-stooges-and-sophists-over-housing&catid=375) GUEST COMMENTARY-In an op-ed entitled “Why California liberals turn into raging conservatives over housing,” [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/6f/074l-6fdb8dea.png&src=images/stories/Sept-2021/074l.png&thumbnail=1200,1000,&hash=11cb6bbe) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22572:lack-of-trusted-authority-is-why-covid-19-is-kicking-our-butts&catid=375)### [Lack of Trusted Authority Is Why Covid-19 Is Kicking Our Butts](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22572:lack-of-trusted-authority-is-why-covid-19-is-kicking-our-butts&catid=375) MEDIA MONOPOLIES-We have faced tough times before. World wars, famines, pandemics, economic ruin. [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/a6/073g-a6f4a338.png&src=images/stories/Sept-2021/073g.png&thumbnail=1200,1000,&hash=530f5423) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22552:judith-butler-calls-out-transphobia-as-one-of-the-dominant-strains-of-fascism-in-our-times&catid=375)### [Judith Butler calls out transphobia as “one of the dominant strains of fascism in our times”](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22552:judith-butler-calls-out-transphobia-as-one-of-the-dominant-strains-of-fascism-in-our-times&catid=375) LGBTQ POLITICS - Noted queer academic Judith Butler accused transphobic feminists of allying with fascists in a new interview with The Guar… [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/21/073v-21e66630.png&src=images/stories/Sept-2021/073v.png&thumbnail=1200,1000,&hash=1e4999c6) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22546:this-anti-democratic-unconstitutional-filibuster-must-be-destroyed&catid=375)### [This Anti-Democratic, Unconstitutional Filibuster Must Be Destroyed](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22546:this-anti-democratic-unconstitutional-filibuster-must-be-destroyed&catid=375) THE SENATE RULES - You’ve probably been hearing a lot about the filibuster these days. 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