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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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### [$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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#  VOICES

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### How About a Little More Stoicism in Professional Sports?

Written by Marc Ang on August 02 2021.

 ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22211:how-about-a-little-more-stoicism-in-professional-sports&catid=375)

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## [George W. Bush Should Shut Up and Go Away](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22205:george-w-bush-should-shut-up-and-go-away&catid=375)

But, as we know, the world is not a just place. So, like all the other American presidents who have avoided the dock despite the crimes they have com…

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Written by Sheera Frenkel on July 29 2021.

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Written by Don Wiener, Alex Kotch on July 29 2021.

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Written by Tony Butka on July 29 2021.

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Written by Liz Amsden on July 26 2021.

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Written by F. Douglas Stephenson on July 26 2021.

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Written by Jake Johnson on July 22 2021.

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Written by James Preston Allen on July 22 2021.

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Written by Joel Kotkin on July 22 2021.

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Written by Jake Johnson on July 22 2021.

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Written by James A. Haught on July 19 2021.

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Written by Abby Zimet on July 19 2021.

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Written by Mel Gurtov on July 15 2021.

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Written by Joel Kotkin on July 15 2021.

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Written by Jeremy Mohler on July 15 2021.

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Written by Abby Zimet on July 15 2021.

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Written by CommonDreams on July 12 2021.

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Written by Marc Ang on July 12 2021.

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Written by Liz Amsden on July 12 2021.

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