## In the News [ ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/ae/064h-ae29651b.jpg) ](https://www.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://www.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://www.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/9b/061a-9b0a2dba.jpg) ](https://www.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://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33148:brace-yourself-for-a-worse-housing-crisis&catid=398) August 03 2026 [ ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/ae/064j-ae16d9b9.jpg) ](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33204:be-prepared-to-protect-our-democracy-in-november-from-a-trumpian-plot&catid=9) ### [Be Prepared to Protect Our Democracy in November From a Trumpian Plot](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33204:be-prepared-to-protect-our-democracy-in-november-from-a-trumpian-plot&catid=9) August 13 2026 [ ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/bb/063e-bbfe3056.jpg) ](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33174:nithya-raman-loses-the-homelessness-gavel-her-record-explains-why&catid=396) ### [Nithya Raman Loses the Homelessness Gavel — Her Record Explains Why](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33174:nithya-raman-loses-the-homelessness-gavel-her-record-explains-why&catid=396) August 10 2026 --- [![](https://www.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/dd/060h-dd933615.png&src=images/stories/July-2018/060h.png&thumbnail=1300,500,&hash=f2bd6d2e)](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15887:lazy-picky-liberals-brought-this-monstrosity-on-us-all-have-you-learned-anything&catid=312) LOS ANGELES ## [ Lazy, Picky Liberals Brought This Monstrosity on Us All … Have You Learned Anything? ](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15887:lazy-picky-liberals-brought-this-monstrosity-on-us-all-have-you-learned-anything&catid=312) In an age of immediate gratification, it became quite apparent that the Republicans were hell-bent on making sure they got out and voted while the Democrats and liberals decided to stay home. This was the first major step in empowering the… ### More Coverage - [LA Sends Exultant Thoughts and Prayers for Trump's Demolished Hollywood Star of Infamy](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15885:la-sends-exultant-thoughts-and-prayers-for-trump-s-demolished-hollywood-star-of-infamy&catid=312) - [LA Loses 5 ½ Rent Control Units a Day Because of the Heartless Ellis Act!](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15884:la-loses-5-rent-control-units-a-day-because-of-the-heartless-ellis-act&catid=312) - [How to Become an Entrepreneur if You’re Living with a Disability](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15882:how-to-become-an-entrepreneur-if-you-re-living-with-a-disability&catid=312) [ ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/05/060i-05aba47e.png&src=images/stories/July-2018/060i.png&thumbnail=610,307,&hash=35ef22f4) ](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15886:law-professor-donald-trump-is-dead-broke&catid=312)LOS ANGELES ## [Law Professor: Donald Trump is Dead Broke](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15886:law-professor-donald-trump-is-dead-broke&catid=312) The Campos column provides a good bit of believable evidence, mainly concentrating on the difficulties that Trump's colleagues had in paying off Trump's mistresses. Campos states bluntly, "I don't think Trump has any money at all." His th… --- [ ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/66/060j-6600715c.png&src=images/stories/July-2018/060j.png&thumbnail=1200,1000,&hash=95484a88) ](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15885:la-sends-exultant-thoughts-and-prayers-for-trump-s-demolished-hollywood-star-of-infamy&catid=312)### [LA Sends Exultant Thoughts and Prayers for Trump's Demolished Hollywood Star of Infamy](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15885:la-sends-exultant-thoughts-and-prayers-for-trump-s-demolished-hollywood-star-of-infamy&catid=312) VOICES--Oh dear. Increasingly but mystifyingly, it seems some people are unhappy with their "president." [ ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/45/060k-4548aa77.png&src=images/stories/July-2018/060k.png&thumbnail=1200,1000,&hash=0f6f1358) ](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15884:la-loses-5-rent-control-units-a-day-because-of-the-heartless-ellis-act&catid=312)### [LA Loses 5 ½ Rent Control Units a Day Because of the Heartless Ellis Act!](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15884:la-loses-5-rent-control-units-a-day-because-of-the-heartless-ellis-act&catid=312) LATEST CES REPORT--The City of Los Angeles saw 997 more Ellis Act Eviction application filed by landlords and developers for the first half… [ ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/ce/060m-ce759155.png&src=images/stories/July-2018/060m.png&thumbnail=1200,1000,&hash=8e7dc6cb) ](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15882:how-to-become-an-entrepreneur-if-you-re-living-with-a-disability&catid=312)### [How to Become an Entrepreneur if You’re Living with a Disability](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15882:how-to-become-an-entrepreneur-if-you-re-living-with-a-disability&catid=312) DISABILITY PERSPECTIVE--Nearly one in five Americans are living with a disability, according to data from the United States Census Bureau. [ ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/ff/060o-ff21af4c.png&src=images/stories/July-2018/060o.png&thumbnail=1200,1000,&hash=61223fdb) ](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15879:city-planning-imitates-the-queen-of-hearts-to-update-the-wilshire-community-plan&catid=312)### [City Planning Imitates the Queen of Hearts to “Update” the Wilshire Community Plan](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15879:city-planning-imitates-the-queen-of-hearts-to-update-the-wilshire-community-plan&catid=312) PLATKIN ON PLANNING-If you live, work, shop in, visit, or care about the Beverly-Fairfax, Miracle Mile/Museum Row, Restaurant Row, LaBrea C… [ ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/b9/060q-b92530e8.png&src=images/stories/July-2018/060q.png&thumbnail=1200,1000,&hash=dc102bda) 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Progressive?](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15877:ca-dems-endorse-kevin-de-leon-is-he-really-a-left-wing-progressive&catid=312) EASTSIDER-After the recent meeting of the Executive Committee of the California Democratic Party, where they endorsed Kevin de Leon in his… [ ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/7c/059b-7ce165c9.png&src=images/stories/July-2018/059b.png&thumbnail=1200,1000,&hash=f3c2bf1c) ](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15870:you-may-not-know-john-parkinson-but-for-sure-he-changed-your-la-life&catid=312)### [You May Not Know John Parkinson but for Sure He Changed Your LA Life](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15870:you-may-not-know-john-parkinson-but-for-sure-he-changed-your-la-life&catid=312) DEEGAN ON LA-No development controversies here, no discussion of “NIMBYs” or “YIMBYs,” just a collection of well-recognized beauties many p… [ 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](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15866:secret-service-agents-dangerously-spying-on-one-another-in-la&catid=312) @THE GUSS REPORT-Little did anyone on the Los Angeles-area golf course that day know that the middle-aged duffer among them was a senior le… [ ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/13/059j-1384cd02.png&src=images/stories/July-2018/059j.png&thumbnail=1200,1000,&hash=7235094c) ](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15864:putin-puppet-will-helsinki-sink-him&catid=312)### [Putin Puppet: Will Helsinki Sink Him?](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15864:putin-puppet-will-helsinki-sink-him&catid=312) GELFAND’S WORLD--This is the month in which everyone who is not a dyed in the wool Trump defender has been asking what Putin has on Trump. [ ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/b7/059k-b7e69e92.png&src=images/stories/July-2018/059k.png&thumbnail=1200,1000,&hash=1f6ebadb) ](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15863:one-year-after-black-gay-man-found-dead-in-dem-donor-ed-buck-s-home-family-still-looking-for-answers&catid=312)### [One Year After Black Gay Man Found Dead in Dem Donor Ed Buck’s Home, Family Still Looking for Answers](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15863:one-year-after-black-gay-man-found-dead-in-dem-donor-ed-buck-s-home-family-still-looking-for-answers&catid=312) URBAN PERSPECTIVE--On the one year anniversary of the death of 26-year-old Gemmel Moore at the West Hollywood home of Democratic donor Ed B… [ ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/fd/059l-fd8ad88c.png&src=images/stories/July-2018/059l.png&thumbnail=1200,1000,&hash=29e479c8) ](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15862:metro-will-study-and-conclude-the-shortest-distance-between-two-points-remains-a-straight-line&catid=312)### [Metro Will Study and Conclude: The Shortest Distance Between Two Points Remains a Straight Line](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15862:metro-will-study-and-conclude-the-shortest-distance-between-two-points-remains-a-straight-line&catid=312) ALPERN AT LARGE--It's Metro's job to explore ALL routes in its expanding rail network, and the era is over as to wondering whether or not c… [ ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/dd/059o-dd0f0ed7.png&src=images/stories/July-2018/059o.png&thumbnail=1200,1000,&hash=22cf4af7) ](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15860:jonathan-gold-it-was-his-passion&catid=312)### [Jonathan Gold: It Was His Passion](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15860:jonathan-gold-it-was-his-passion&catid=312) BCK FILE--Los Angeles lost a treasure this past weekend. 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[ ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/fc/059r-fc1f9b44.png&src=images/stories/July-2018/059r.png&thumbnail=1200,1000,&hash=023e74b0) ](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15858:endemic-corruption-at-lausd-even-worse-after-six-years&catid=312)### [Endemic Corruption at LAUSD Even Worse After Six Years](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15858:endemic-corruption-at-lausd-even-worse-after-six-years&catid=312) EDUCATION POLITICS-Sixty-four years after the 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown vs. Board of Education,declaring that "Separate but equa… [ ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/66/059s-661a287a.png&src=images/stories/July-2018/059s.png&thumbnail=1200,1000,&hash=97271023) ](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15857:dems-are-helping-trump-win-re-election&catid=312)### [Dems are Helping Trump Win Re-Election](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15857:dems-are-helping-trump-win-re-election&catid=312) Donald Trump and the Republican Party, increasingly his subsidiary, should be headed to a reckoning of historic proportions. 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