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### [ $4.4 Billion Later: Inside the Broken Machinery of Los Angeles’ Homelessness System](https://www.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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August 03 2026

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### [Netanyahu’s Challengers Are Selling The Same Poison](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33173:netanyahus-challengers-are-selling-the-same-poison&catid=332)

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##  [ Guilty Guilty Guilty Guilty Guilty ](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=28975:guilty-guilty-guilty-guilty-guilty&catid=395)

BOB GELFAND’S WORLD - In a verdict reached by 12 of his peers, Donald J. Trump was found to have criminally attempted to steal the 2016 presidential election. He did it through buying the silence of a prostitute or, to use the more politic…

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## [Remembered Through Time: Reflections on Wartime Sacrifices and Legacy](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=28961:remembered-through-time-reflections-on-wartime-sacrifices-and-legacy&catid=395)

GELFAND’S WORLD - Perhaps Memorial Day tributes should be left to those who fought, but then there are novels and movies and commentaries to be noticed and, at the proper time, remembered. Over the past twenty years or so of writing this c…

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