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### [ $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

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### [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)

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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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### [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

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##  [ FDR and Churchill Never Asked the Nazis to Form a New Government, Why Hamas? ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=31774:fdr-and-churchill-never-asked-the-nazis-to-form-a-new-government-why-hamas&catid=375)

THE VIEW FROM HERE - FDR and Churchill were not blithering idiots like those fools who propose that the Hamas participate the new Gazan government. Step one for peace requires the total, complete and unconditional surrender of Hamas. The…

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- [Half Measures, Whole Consequences: Trump’s SNAP Shame](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=31758:half-measures-whole-consequences-trumps-snap-shame&catid=375)

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## [A Vote for Prop 50 Is Not Necessarily an Endorsement of Newsom as Presidential Material](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=31764:a-vote-for-prop-50-is-not-necessarily-an-endorsement-of-newsom-as-presidential-material&catid=375)

ACCORDING TO LIZ - Lots has been written about the removal of the authority vested in the bipartisan California Citizens Redistricting Commission to help balance the scales for the midterms following Republican gerrymandering in other stat…

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 [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/f0/086m-f04b0113.jpg&src=images/stories/Oct-2025/086m.jpg&thumbnail=1200,1000,&hash=4f9bca8d) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=31710:los-angeles-charter-reform-commission-an-inane-farce&catid=375)### [Los Angeles Charter Reform Commission – an Inane Farce](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=31710:los-angeles-charter-reform-commission-an-inane-farce&catid=375)

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