##  In the News

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### [When the Last-Minute Power Play Failed: Sacramento Finally Ran Out of Time](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33319:when-the-last-minute-power-play-failed-sacramento-finally-ran-out-of-time&catid=375)

September 07 2026

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### [Follow the Money: How Does a $3,662 Apartment Become “Affordable Housing”?](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33300:follow-the-money-how-does-a-3-662-apartment-become-affordable-housing&catid=312)

September 03 2026

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### [Newsom’s Next Immigration Gamble: Defy Federal Law And Dare Washington To Fight Back](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33283:newsoms-next-immigration-gamble-defy-federal-law-and-dare-washington-to-fight-back&catid=375)

August 31 2026

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### [As California Debated Sharing Data On Drivers, Homeland Security Subpoenaed 17 Million Records](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33308:as-california-debated-sharing-data-on-drivers-homeland-security-subpoenaed-17-million-records&catid=425)

September 03 2026

#  SAY WHAT?

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  [### Truth Is Truth: Fuck These Guys

Written by Abby Zimet on September 27 2021.

 ](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22669:truth-is-truth-fuck-these-guys&catid=376)

 Written by Alex Bollinger on September 23 2021. Posted in [SAY WHAT?](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=376).

## [Elvira comes out & discusses 19-year relationship with a woman in new memoir](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22634:elvira-comes-out-discusses-19-year-relationship-with-a-woman-in-new-memoir&catid=376)

“There on the doorstep stood my trainer, T, holding a trash bag full of her belongings, looking sad and bedraggled,” Peterson wrote. “She’d split fro…

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### [667,000 and Counting: In America, Fucking Remember](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22604:667-000-and-counting-in-america-fucking-remember&catid=376)

Written by Abby Zimet on September 20 2021.

### [SCOTUS Is Definitely Not A Bunch of Partisan Hacks Says Partisanest Hack Ever](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22570:scotus-is-definitely-not-a-bunch-of-partisan-hacks-says-partisanest-hack-ever&catid=376)

Written by Abby Zimet on September 16 2021.

### [An Unwillingness To Abide Lost Cause Idolatry Any Longer: Robert E. Lee Comes Down At Last](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22538:an-unwillingness-to-abide-lost-cause-idolatry-any-longer-robert-e-lee-comes-down-at-last&catid=376)

Written by Abby Zimet on September 13 2021.

### [It Looks Heroic, But You Broke Us](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22511:it-looks-heroic-but-you-broke-us&catid=376)

Written by Abby Zimet on September 09 2021.

### [Grand Bargain’ of Workers’ Compensation Under Siege](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22494:grand-bargain-of-workers-compensation-under-siege&catid=376)

Written by Dan Walters on September 06 2021.

### [Leaving the Bitter Graveyard of Empires: In Afghanistan, Everything Is Crying](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22469:leaving-the-bitter-graveyard-of-empires-in-afghanistan-everything-is-crying&catid=376)

Written by Abby Zimet on September 02 2021.

### [Repugnant, Still: Hunger for the Blood of Black Citizens](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22438:repugnant-still-hunger-for-the-blood-of-black-citizens&catid=376)

Written by Abby Zimet on August 30 2021.

### [I Will Build A Great Wall That Will Be Impenetrable, Except For Saws, Wind, Breaches, Ladders and Now Monsoons](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22411:i-will-build-a-great-wall-that-will-be-impenetrable-except-for-saws-wind-breaches-ladders-and-now-monsoons&catid=376)

Written by Abby Zimet on August 26 2021.

### [What Courage Looks Like: Birds Of No Nation](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22368:what-courage-looks-like-birds-of-no-nation&catid=376)

Written by Staff of Common Dreams on August 23 2021.

### [Profiteering From Vaccine Inequity: A Crime Against Humanity? ](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22354:profiteering-from-vaccine-inequity-a-crime-against-humanity&catid=376)

Written by F Hassan, G Yamey, K Abbasi on August 19 2021.

### ['Hard to Imagine Worse Idea': Biden to Resume Fossil Fuel Leases on Public Lands and Waters](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22336:hard-to-imagine-worse-idea-biden-to-resume-fossil-fuel-leases-on-public-lands-and-waters-2&catid=376)

Written by Jon Queally on August 17 2021.

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Written by Abby Zimet on August 16 2021.

### [OMG WTF: We Told You So](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22288:omg-wtf-we-told-you-so&catid=376)

Written by Abby Zimet on August 12 2021.

### [Grifters Gonna Grift!](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22270:grifters-gonna-grift&catid=376)

Written by Abby Zimet on August 09 2021.

### [To Make the World A Human Dwelling Place For All: I Can't Believe What You Say Because I See What You Do](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22237:to-make-the-world-a-human-dwelling-place-for-all-i-can-t-believe-what-you-say-because-i-see-what-you-do&catid=376)

Written by Abby Zimet on August 05 2021.

### [Frankly, This Is America. It Shouldn't Be, But I Guess That's the Way Things Are](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22173:frankly-this-is-america-it-shouldn-t-be-but-i-guess-that-s-the-way-things-are&catid=376)

Written by Abby Zimet on July 29 2021.

### [The Stupid Is Killing Us: You Do Not Know What You Are Talking About, Quite Frankly](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22152:the-stupid-is-killing-us-you-do-not-know-what-you-are-talking-about-quite-frankly&catid=376)

Written by Abby Zimet on July 26 2021.

### [Court rules that care facilities have a free speech right to misgender transgender elders](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22123:court-rules-that-care-facilities-have-a-free-speech-right-to-misgender-transgender-elders&catid=376)

Written by Alex Bollinger on July 22 2021.

### [California Republicans wanted to honor Nancy Reagan for a year. This bi Democrat wasn’t on board.](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22104:california-republicans-wanted-to-honor-nancy-reagan-for-a-year-this-bi-democrat-wasn-t-on-board&catid=376)

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