#  LOS ANGELES

   ##  [ Do HOA’s and Neighborhood Councils Guarantee Level Freedom-of-Speech Playing Fields?](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13658-do-hoa-s-and-neighborhood-councils-guarantee-level-freedom-of-speech-playing-fields "Do HOA’s and Neighborhood Councils Guarantee Level Freedom-of-Speech Playing Fields?")

      Details    Bob Gelfand    [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     July 24 2017       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/July-2017/059h.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13658-do-hoa-s-and-neighborhood-councils-guarantee-level-freedom-of-speech-playing-fields)

GELFAND’S WORLD--People often divide themselves into two broadly defined camps, the first of which insists on obedience to all rules, while the other defines itself by its anti-authoritarianism. May I suggest that each faction is asking the wrong question.

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   ##  [ Does the California Veterinary Medical Board Protect Bad Veterinarians?](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13657-does-the-california-veterinary-medical-board-protect-bad-veterinarians "Does the California Veterinary Medical Board Protect Bad Veterinarians?")

      Details    Daniel Guss    [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     July 24 2017       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/July-2017/059i.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13657-does-the-california-veterinary-medical-board-protect-bad-veterinarians)

@THE GUSS REPORT-This article is a bell that the California Department of Consumer Affairs doesn’t want to be rung about one of its 42 Boards that license and regulate an array of industries in the state, including the California Veterinary Medical Board.

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   ##  [ Going Coastal, Using the Pledge of Allegiance as a Wedge](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13654-going-coastal-using-the-pledge-of-allegiance-as-a-wedge "Going Coastal, Using the Pledge of Allegiance as a Wedge")

      Details    James Preston Allen    [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     July 24 2017       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/July-2017/059l.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13654-going-coastal-using-the-pledge-of-allegiance-as-a-wedge)

AT RANDOM-Coastal San Pedro Neighborhood Council’s July 10 agenda-setting meeting turned out to be a rowdy affair. Some 20 stakeholders got riled up over the proposed standing rules change that removed the Pledge of Allegiance at the beginning of the meetings and voted against every item proposed until a resolution keeping the Pledge was placed on the agenda for the next meeting. This rule was passed by the previous council and, as it turns out, was not always adhered to.

     [  Read more …  ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13654-going-coastal-using-the-pledge-of-allegiance-as-a-wedge)

   ##  [ Living in a Black Lung Loft? How LA Politics and ‘Smart Planning’ Ignore Medical Science](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13653-living-in-a-black-lung-loft-how-la-politics-and-smart-planning-ignore-medical-science "Living in a Black Lung Loft? How LA Politics and ‘Smart Planning’ Ignore Medical Science")

      Details    Richard Lee Abrams    [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     July 24 2017       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/July-2017/059n.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13653-living-in-a-black-lung-loft-how-la-politics-and-smart-planning-ignore-medical-science)

CORRUPTION WATCH-Should politics invalidate medical science? Politicos readily allow interests of a tiny segment of society to dictate medical decisions for our children. For years local politicians allowed toxic-spewing industrial plant Exide to poison children who lived nearby. While the plant was physically located in Vernon, many of the 10,000 affected families lived in the city of Los Angeles.

     [  Read more …  ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13653-living-in-a-black-lung-loft-how-la-politics-and-smart-planning-ignore-medical-science)

   ##  [ Paramount Gets Paid While Best and Brightest Leave California](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13651-paramount-gets-paid-while-best-and-brightest-leave-california "Paramount Gets Paid While Best and Brightest Leave California")

      Details    Bob Loewen    [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     July 24 2017       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/July-2017/059o.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13651-paramount-gets-paid-while-best-and-brightest-leave-california)

POLICY--Last week, my friend Ethan announced that he is moving to Ohio. Ethan is an extremely bright entrepreneur in his mid-thirties, who grew up in Southern California. He’s civic minded – joined non-profit boards, gave to charities what he could afford, and was even been elected to his local water board.

     [  Read more …  ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13651-paramount-gets-paid-while-best-and-brightest-leave-california)

   ##  [ Rabid Bobcat Attacks Spiral … Cat with Rabies Alarms Health Experts](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13650-rabid-bobcat-attacks-spiral-cat-with-rabies-alarms-health-experts "Rabid Bobcat Attacks Spiral … Cat with Rabies Alarms Health Experts")

      Details    Phyllis M. Daugherty    [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     July 24 2017       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/July-2017/059p.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13650-rabid-bobcat-attacks-spiral-cat-with-rabies-alarms-health-experts)

ANIMAL WATCH-A surge in attacks on humans and pets by bobcats testing positive for rabies across the U.S. in 2017 is getting the attention of public health officials who say it is unusual for bobcats to contract this disease and also abnormal for this elusive wild feline to attack humans. Officials warn that in any case where a bobcat attacks a human, rabies should be suspected.

     [  Read more …  ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13650-rabid-bobcat-attacks-spiral-cat-with-rabies-alarms-health-experts)

   ##  [ To Be a Leader on National Issues, California Must Leave It’s Smug, Protective Cocoon](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13646-to-be-a-leader-on-national-issues-california-must-leave-it-s-smug-protective-cocoon "To Be a Leader on National Issues, California Must Leave It’s Smug, Protective Cocoon")

      Details    Joe Mathews    [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     July 24 2017       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/July-2017/059u.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13646-to-be-a-leader-on-national-issues-california-must-leave-it-s-smug-protective-cocoon)

CONNECTION CALIFORNIA--California, do you want to be an incubator for great ideas—or a bubble that shuts out the world?

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   ##  [ Too Risky! LA County Takes SoCal Gas to Court … Opposes Reopening of Aliso Canyon](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13645-too-risky-la-county-takes-socal-gas-to-court-opposes-reopening-of-aliso-canyon "Too Risky! LA County Takes SoCal Gas to Court … Opposes Reopening of Aliso Canyon")

      Details    Beth Cone Kramer    [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     July 24 2017       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/July-2017/059v.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13645-too-risky-la-county-takes-socal-gas-to-court-opposes-reopening-of-aliso-canyon)

THIS IS WHAT I KNOW--Back in October of 2015, SoCal Gas employees discovered a massive natural gas leak from a well within the Aliso Canyon underground storage facility in the Santa Susanna Foothills near Porter Ranch in the San Fernando Valley. Owned by Southern California Gas, a division of Sempra Energy, the gas field covers 3,600 acres.

     [  Read more …  ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13645-too-risky-la-county-takes-socal-gas-to-court-opposes-reopening-of-aliso-canyon)

   ##  [ A Seat at the Table](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13640-a-seat-at-the-table "A Seat at the Table")

      Details    David Bell    [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     July 20 2017       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/July-2017/058b.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13640-a-seat-at-the-table)

BELL VIEW-One of the many privileges of my middle class life is health insurance. As far as I can tell, it’s decent coverage. At least I think it’s decent – I can’t pretend to understand it, but I don’t feel like I’m one accident away from total ruin. In the midst of the current debate over the fate of the American healthcare system, it’s hard to overstate the level of peace of mind having basic coverage provides to a person. And despite the high price I pay for this coverage and the amount of work I have to do to maintain it, I recognize that – in 21st Century America – I’m privileged to have healthcare coverage.

     [  Read more …  ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13640-a-seat-at-the-table)

   ##  [ Exposed: LA is Pursuing Plan for Never-Ending Traffic Gridlock](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13638-exposed-la-is-pursuing-plan-for-never-ending-traffic-gridlock "Exposed: LA is Pursuing Plan for Never-Ending Traffic Gridlock")

      Details    Richard Lee Abrams    [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     July 20 2017       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/July-2017/058e.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13638-exposed-la-is-pursuing-plan-for-never-ending-traffic-gridlock)

CORRUPTION WATCH-Starting in 2014, Judge Alan Goodman and Judge James Chalfant warned us that Super Gridlock was being planned for Los Angeles, but we weren’t listening. Perhaps, we missed them sound the alarm. They used polite legalese.

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   ##  [ Gas Taxes! Vehicle Fees! Crime! Dennis is Steamed!](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13637-gas-taxes-vehicle-fees-crime-dennis-is-steamed "Gas Taxes! Vehicle Fees! Crime! Dennis is Steamed!")

      Details    Dennis P. Zine    [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     July 20 2017       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/July-2017/058f.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13637-gas-taxes-vehicle-fees-crime-dennis-is-steamed)

RANTZ & RAVEZ-First of all, a Big RaveZ for LA City Councilman Bob Blumenfield and the Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks. The Woodland Hills Recreation Center located at 5858 Shoup Avenue in the West Valley has a sparkling new pool and recreation center after a long four years of meetings, delays and construction-related problems. It was one thing after another that held up construction of the facility, including contaminated soil that had to be removed and heavy rains that hit the community.

     [  Read more …  ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13637-gas-taxes-vehicle-fees-crime-dennis-is-steamed)

   ##  [ Hollywood Sign: The Battle for Beachwood Drive Access Headed to Court](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13636-hollywood-sign-the-battle-for-beachwood-drive-access-headed-to-court "Hollywood Sign: The Battle for Beachwood Drive Access Headed to Court")

      Details    Beth Cone Kramer    [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     July 20 2017       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/July-2017/058g.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13636-hollywood-sign-the-battle-for-beachwood-drive-access-headed-to-court)

THIS IS WHAT I KNOW--Hiking Runyon Canyon is one of LA’s most popular outdoor workouts – in a city where Angelenos drive to Flywheel or hot yoga. Getting close enough to the Hollywood Sign for that vacation Instagram post is on the to-do lists of many tourists.

     [  Read more …  ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13636-hollywood-sign-the-battle-for-beachwood-drive-access-headed-to-court)

   ##  [ Hotel Complex: A Dream for Hollywood Jobs](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13635-hotel-complex-a-dream-for-hollywood-jobs "Hotel Complex: A Dream for Hollywood Jobs")

      Details    Leron Gubler    [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     July 20 2017       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/July-2017/058i.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13635-hotel-complex-a-dream-for-hollywood-jobs)

LIVING THE DREAM-When one thinks about the visionaries who made Hollywood what it is today, there are a lot of candidates to consider: Sid Grauman who dreamed up the picture palaces and movie premieres; C.E. Toberman, who built most of the grand buildings on Hollywood Blvd. and made the Hollywood Bowl a reality; the Chandler family and their associates who put the huge Hollywood Sign on Mt. Lee; Johnny Grant, who built the Hollywood Walk of Fame into an international icon. The list could go on and on.

     [  Read more …  ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13635-hotel-complex-a-dream-for-hollywood-jobs)

   ##  [ How Cool is This: A Chance to Become a Habitat Hero](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13634-how-cool-is-this-a-chance-to-become-a-habitat-hero "How Cool is This: A Chance to Become a Habitat Hero")

      Details    Tim Deegan    [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     July 20 2017       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/July-2017/058j.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13634-how-cool-is-this-a-chance-to-become-a-habitat-hero)

DEEGAN ON LA-Movie producer Michael Costigan *(“Brokeback Mountain,” “A Bigger Splash”)* and his wife Linda are about to give Los Angeles County $98,241 -- but for what? The County’s Notice of Public Hearing says it’s for 3,275 square feet of mostly unusable, steep mountainside land adjacent to the Costigan’s Outpost Canyon home. The County operates on a $30 billion annual budget and doesn’t really need the money.

     [  Read more …  ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13634-how-cool-is-this-a-chance-to-become-a-habitat-hero)

   ##  [ Is It Fair to Put a Price on LA’s Freeways?](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13632-is-it-fair-to-put-a-price-on-la-s-freeways "Is It Fair to Put a Price on LA’s Freeways?")

      Details    Judith Lewis Mernit    [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     July 20 2017       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/July-2017/058l.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13632-is-it-fair-to-put-a-price-on-la-s-freeways)

CAPITAL & MAIN--At 6 p.m. on any weekday evening, Interstate 10 from Santa Monica to downtown Los Angeles is the [fifth most crowded stretch](http://inrix.com/press-releases/los-angeles-tops-inrix-global-congestion-ranking/) of road in the United States. A light rail line paralleling the freeway has done little to help, despite exceeding rider estimates. A carpool lane or road expansion would likely [fail as well](http://www.scpr.org/blogs/economy/2014/10/10/17413/405-traffic-a-little-slower-after-1-billion-upgrad/), due to a phenomenon known as “[triple convergence](https://walkablestreets.wordpress.com/1994/08/18/the-triple-convergence/)”: When you make more room on a roadway, peak-hour drivers who would otherwise have detoured, taken the bus or left earlier, show up to fill it. (This may be the only application of Energy Secretary Rick Perry’s [novel interpretation of supply and demand](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/07/06/rick-perry-offered-a-little-economics-lesson-it-didnt-go-so-well/?utm_term=.46ee10dcb6d7).)

     [  Read more …  ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13632-is-it-fair-to-put-a-price-on-la-s-freeways)

   ##  [ LA Transportation Getting Hijacked by Those with Self-Serving Agendas](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13631-la-transportation-getting-hijacked-by-those-with-self-serving-agendas "LA Transportation Getting Hijacked by Those with Self-Serving Agendas")

      Details    Kenneth S. Alpern    [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     July 20 2017       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/July-2017/058m.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13631-la-transportation-getting-hijacked-by-those-with-self-serving-agendas)

TRANSPO WATCH--To most of us, building a new highway, a new rail line, or a new bikeway (or any other mobility-oriented project) involves something that combines benefits to our Economy, Environment, and Quality of Life. Such a project should allow for greater mobility/freedom, and perhaps enhance the ability of ALL of us to financially benefit … hence the need for public funding.

     [  Read more …  ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13631-la-transportation-getting-hijacked-by-those-with-self-serving-agendas)

   ##  [ LAUSD: Where Layoffs are Celebrated with a 174% Raise — for the Bosses](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13630-lausd-where-layoffs-are-celebrated-with-a-174-raise-for-the-bosses "LAUSD: Where Layoffs are Celebrated with a 174% Raise — for the Bosses")

      Details    David Lyell    [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     July 20 2017       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/July-2017/058n.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13630-lausd-where-layoffs-are-celebrated-with-a-174-raise-for-the-bosses)

EDUCATION POLITICS--How do you look parents in the eye and say you’ve taken a 174% pay raise right after you’ve closed the library at their child’s school?

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   ##  [ Must Read: Kerfuffle Apologies and Inquiries into the Opaque Insides of Political Clubs](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13629-must-read-kerfuffle-apologies-and-inquiries-into-the-opaque-insides-of-political-clubs "Must Read: Kerfuffle Apologies and Inquiries into the Opaque Insides of Political Clubs")

      Details    Tony Butka    [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     July 20 2017       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/July-2017/058p.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13629-must-read-kerfuffle-apologies-and-inquiries-into-the-opaque-insides-of-political-clubs)

EASTSIDER-A few weeks ago I wrote an article about the upcoming Special Election to replace Jimmy Gomez in California’s 51st Assembly District. In that column I characterized an internal fight over the process followed to endorse a candidate as a [“kerfuffle.”](http://www.citywatchla.com/index.php/los-angeles/13506-lordy-another-special-election-in-northeast-la)

     [  Read more …  ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13629-must-read-kerfuffle-apologies-and-inquiries-into-the-opaque-insides-of-political-clubs)

   ##  [ Neighborhood Councils: If I Had It to Do All Over Again](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13628-neighborhood-councils-if-i-had-it-to-do-all-over-again "Neighborhood Councils: If I Had It to Do All Over Again")

      Details    Greg Nelson    [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     July 20 2017       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/July-2017/058q.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13628-neighborhood-councils-if-i-had-it-to-do-all-over-again)

15 CANDLES—*(Editor’s Note: Have LA’s Neighborhood Councils accomplished what they promised 15 years ago? What have we learned? What would we change? I’m sure you’ve heard myriad answers to these questions. Most often from folks whose claims and participation were marginal. Greg Nelson created LA’s Neighborhood Councils. He was, at the time, Chief of Staff for LA City Councilman Joel Wachs who became the engine for Greg’s idea. For the first time, in this CityWatch retrospective, the person responsible for Los Angeles’ Neighborhood Councils looks back … and ahead … talks about how it happened and if he had it all to do over again, what he would change.)

     [  Read more …  ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13628-neighborhood-councils-if-i-had-it-to-do-all-over-again)

   ##  [ Which Vision for Los Angeles: An Updated General Plan or Another Real Estate Bubble?](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13622-which-vision-for-los-angeles-an-updated-general-plan-or-another-real-estate-bubble "Which Vision for Los Angeles: An Updated General Plan or Another Real Estate Bubble?")

      Details    Dick Platkin    [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     July 20 2017       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/July-2017/058z.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13622-which-vision-for-los-angeles-an-updated-general-plan-or-another-real-estate-bubble)

PLATKIN ON PLANNING-By now most of us know what ails Los Angeles. To cite some of the city’s most imminent emergencies:

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   ##  [ Why O.J. was Freed - And Why It Matters](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13621-why-o-j-was-freed-and-why-it-matters "Why O.J. was Freed - And Why It Matters")

      Details    Earl Ofari Hutchinson    [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     July 20 2017       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/July-2017/058z1.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13621-why-o-j-was-freed-and-why-it-matters)

URBAN PERSPECTIVE-O.J. Simpson won’t go away. I posed the question on my Facebook page “Should O.J. be paroled?” It drew an avalanche of responses. Even while respondents hotly protested they didn’t care, they still debated, raged, and fumed on the page about him. He still touches a sore nerve.

     [  Read more …  ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13621-why-o-j-was-freed-and-why-it-matters)

1. [ Best Friends' No-Kill ‘2 for $10’ Pet Adoption Discount: Saving Animals or Desperation?](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13615-best-friends-no-kill-2-for-10-pet-adoption-discount-saving-animals-or-desperation)
2. [ Boycotting Alaska Over Health Insurance … One Senator Needed to Put the Brakes on TrumpCare](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13614-boycotting-alaska-over-health-insurance-one-senator-needed-to-put-the-brakes-on-trumpcare)
3. [ Can ‘One LA’ Make Democracy Work?](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13613-can-one-la-make-democracy-work)
4. [ Civil Rights: California Airbnb Host Ordered to Pay Up for Discrimination Violation](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13612-civil-rights-california-airbnb-host-ordered-to-pay-up-for-discrimination-violation)
5. [ Don’t Let the State Take Your Voice Away](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13611-don-t-let-the-state-take-your-voice-away)
6. [ High Flying California Charts Its Own Path – Watch Out for the Cliff Ahead?](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13610-high-flying-california-charts-its-own-path-watch-out-for-the-cliff-ahead)
7. [ How to Fix LA’s Gridlock: Focus on Quality of Life, not Developers’ Profits](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13609-how-to-fix-la-s-gridlock-focus-on-quality-of-life-not-developers-profits)
8. [ LA Unfitness](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13608-la-unfitness)
9. [ Mega Developer Looking for Spot-Zone Favors Gets Swift Approval on South LA Luxury Project](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13607-mega-developer-looking-for-spot-zone-favors-gets-swift-approval-on-south-la-luxury-project)
10. [ Mr. Mayor … If You Really Want to Help the Homeless](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13606-mr-mayor-if-you-really-want-to-help-the-homeless)
11. [ Not in My Backyard? Well, Times Change](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13605-not-in-my-backyard-well-times-change)
12. [ Shocking New Report: DWP Trio Cleared Over $1 Million in Pension Pay](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13604-shocking-new-report-dwp-trio-cleared-over-1-million-in-pension-pay)
13. [ The Delta Tunnels: A Bad Deal for All Californians](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13603-the-delta-tunnels-a-bad-deal-for-all-californians)
14. [ California’s Unelected Bureaucracies that Keep Us Stuck in Traffic](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13593-california-s-unelected-bureaucracies-that-keep-us-stuck-in-traffic)
15. [ Garcetti Defends His Backing of Black Lung Lofts](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13592-garcetti-defends-his-backing-of-black-lung-lofts)
16. [ Calm Down Already, LA](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13591-calm-down-already-la)
17. [ Getting Hard to Tell the Dems from the GOP … Financial Support Coming from Same Sources](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13589-getting-hard-to-tell-the-dems-from-the-gop-financial-support-coming-from-same-sources)
18. [ Parking Company Says LAX Traffic Study Biased against Passenger Shuttles](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13587-parking-company-says-lax-traffic-study-biased-against-passenger-shuttles)
19. [ $pindler $eeks $anctions; Feuer’s Spokesman Misleads Media?](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13584-pindler-eeks-anctions-feuer-s-spokesman-misleads-media)
20. [ California Dems Split on Single-Payer vs. ‘Ideological Purity’](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13583-california-dems-split-on-single-payer-vs-ideological-purity)

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