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August 07 2025

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August 03 2026

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### [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

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### [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)

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##  [ Adopted on the Fourth of July ](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=27214:adopted-on-the-fourth-of-july&catid=375)

ACCORDING TO LIZ - Twelve score and seven years ago, our forefathers, all our forefathers Brought forth upon this here continent a new nation Conceived, like we all was, in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition That all men, honey…

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## [Biden’s Mountain Valley Pipeline and the Titan Submarine Disaster](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=27211:bidens-mountain-valley-pipeline-and-the-titan-submarine-disaster&catid=375)

GUEST COMMENTARY - When President Biden agreed to the debt deal in May, the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) became his pipeline. Climate scientists tell us it’s exactly the wrong thing to be building in 2023 but the president fast-tracked i…

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Written by Richard Lee Abrams on June 26 2023.

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