##  In the News

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### [Missing Middle. LA City Planning’s New Approach to “Attainable” Housing](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33250:missing-middle-la-city-plannings-new-approach-to-attainable-housing&catid=429)

August 24 2026

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### [Zuckerberg May Finally Pay a Price for Preying on Our Children](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33261:zuckerberg-may-finally-pay-a-price-for-preying-on-our-children&catid=375)

August 27 2026

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### [California Can’t Insure Its Homes. Now Sacramento Wants to Insure the Trees](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33266:california-cant-insure-its-homes-now-sacramento-wants-to-insure-the-trees&catid=385)

August 27 2026

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### [Will the Mega-Merger of Equity Residential and AvalonBay Communities Hurt Tenants?](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33262:will-the-mega-merger-of-equity-residential-and-avalonbay-communities-hurt-tenants&catid=429)

August 27 2026

#  LOS ANGELES

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### A Public Boondoggle with Nine Lives: The Death-Defying Purple Line Extension “Transit Neighborhood Plan”

Written by Dick Platkin on August 08 2019.

 ](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=18215:a-public-boondoggle-with-nine-lives-the-death-defying-purple-line-extension-transit-neighborhood-plan&catid=312)

  [ ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/9f/064n-9f91a68b.png) ](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=18214:just-how-clean-is-dwp-s-water&catid=312)Written by Tony Butka on August 08 2019. Posted in [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=312).

## [Just How Clean Is DWP’s Water?](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=18214:just-how-clean-is-dwp-s-water&catid=312)

 But lost in the headlines is the fact that there are some things that the DWP, which is an engineering firm at its heart, does very well. Just to…

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 [ ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/e6/064u-e69c1703.png) ](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=18213:is-the-la-city-council-about-to-hand-their-planning-responsibilities-over-to-the-mayor&catid=312)### [Is the LA City Council About to Hand Their Planning Responsibilities Over to the Mayor?](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=18213:is-the-la-city-council-about-to-hand-their-planning-responsibilities-over-to-the-mayor&catid=312)

Written by Kenneth S. Alpern on August 08 2019.

 [ ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/d6/064j-d6d29816.png) ](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=18212:pounding-heat-clobbers-greenland&catid=312)### [Pounding Heat Clobbers Greenland](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=18212:pounding-heat-clobbers-greenland&catid=312)

Written by Robert Hunziker on August 08 2019.

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Written by Alon Ben-Meir on August 08 2019.

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Written by Richard Lee Abrams on August 05 2019.

 [ ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/74/063u-74613638.png) ](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=18202:lausd-s-nick-melvoin-betrayal-of-trust&catid=312)### [LAUSD’s Nick Melvoin: Betrayal of Trust](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=18202:lausd-s-nick-melvoin-betrayal-of-trust&catid=312)

Written by Carl Petersen on August 05 2019.

 [ ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/e4/063q-e4b71cac.png) ](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=18201:boycott-lausd&catid=312)### [Boycott LAUSD](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=18201:boycott-lausd&catid=312)

Written by Leonard Isenberg on August 05 2019.

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Written by Julia Stein on August 05 2019.

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Written by George Cassidy Payne on August 05 2019.

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Written by Daniel Guss on August 05 2019.

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Written by Tim Deegan on August 05 2019.

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Written by Kenneth S. Alpern on August 05 2019.

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Written by Laura Finley on August 05 2019.

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Written by Beth Cone Kramer on August 05 2019.

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Written by Bob Gelfand on August 05 2019.

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Written by Jill Richardson on August 01 2019.

 [ ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/f2/062h-f2e864b4.png) ](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=18167:the-dems-are-trying-to-impeach-the-wrong-person&catid=312)### [The Dems Are Trying to Impeach the Wrong Person](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=18167:the-dems-are-trying-to-impeach-the-wrong-person&catid=312)

Written by Richard Lee Abrams on August 01 2019.

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Written by Rachel Hodes on August 01 2019.

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Written by Kenneth S. Alpern on August 01 2019.

 [ ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/85/062f-851f4e5d.png) ](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=18163:the-homeless-lifestyle-and-rats-and-your-car&catid=312)### [The Homeless Lifestyle and RATS and Your Car!](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=18163:the-homeless-lifestyle-and-rats-and-your-car&catid=312)

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