##  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)

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#  VOICES

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### Presidential prerogatives

Written by Mel Gurtov on July 15 2021.

 ](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22084:presidential-prerogatives&catid=375)

  [ ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/July-2021/056q.png) ](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22079:upward-and-outward-america-on-the-move&catid=375)Written by Joel Kotkin on July 15 2021. Posted in [VOICES](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=375).

## [Upward and Outward: America on the Move](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22079:upward-and-outward-america-on-the-move&catid=375)

A strain of insane ideologies, from QAnon to critical race theory, is running through our societies like a virus, infecting everything from political…

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Written by Jeremy Mohler on July 15 2021.

 [ ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/88/056o-8806cd3f.png&src=images/stories/July-2021/056o.png&thumbnail=1200,1000,&hash=b7d4338e) ](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22066:when-you-win-you-re-english-when-you-lose-you-re-black-this-is-why-we-take-the-knee&catid=375)### [When You Win, You're English. When You Lose, You're Black: This Is Why We Take the Knee ](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22066:when-you-win-you-re-english-when-you-lose-you-re-black-this-is-why-we-take-the-knee&catid=375)

Written by Abby Zimet on July 15 2021.

 [ ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/a6/055i-a612463e.png&src=images/stories/July-2021/055i.png&thumbnail=1200,1000,&hash=2fb23027) ](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22059:service-no-longer-required-biden-fires-trump-s-social-security-boss-who-refused-to-resign&catid=375)### [Your Fired: Biden Fires Trump's Social Security Boss Who Refused to Resign](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22059:service-no-longer-required-biden-fires-trump-s-social-security-boss-who-refused-to-resign&catid=375)

Written by CommonDreams on July 12 2021.

 [ ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/70/055y-7055d587.png&src=images/stories/July-2021/055y.png&thumbnail=1200,1000,&hash=ddd3b4ec) ](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22054:critical-race-theory-is-doubly-racist-against-asians&catid=375)### [Critical Race Theory Is Doubly Racist Against Asians](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22054:critical-race-theory-is-doubly-racist-against-asians&catid=375)

Written by Marc Ang on July 12 2021.

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Written by Liz Amsden on July 12 2021.

 [ ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/ae/054q-aeab0188.png&src=images/stories/July-2021/054q.png&thumbnail=1200,1000,&hash=c75cbc70) ](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22034:remembering-jerry-silver-community-activist&catid=375)### [Remembering Jerry Silver - Community Activist](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22034:remembering-jerry-silver-community-activist&catid=375)

Written by Dennis Hathaway on July 08 2021.

 [ ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/30/054c-30006c59.png&src=images/stories/July-2021/054c.png&thumbnail=1200,1000,&hash=e99f0603) ](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22023:amid-record-heat-footage-shows-gop-sen-ron-johnson-dismissing-climate-change-as-bullsh-t&catid=375)### [Amid Record Heat, Footage Shows GOP Sen. Ron Johnson Dismissing Climate Change as 'Bullsh\*t' ](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22023:amid-record-heat-footage-shows-gop-sen-ron-johnson-dismissing-climate-change-as-bullsh-t&catid=375)

Written by Jake Johnson on July 07 2021.

 [ ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/a1/054a-a14298a8.png&src=images/stories/July-2021/054a.png&thumbnail=1200,1000,&hash=a1910bbc) ](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22022:another-challenger-jumps-into-newsom-recall-race&catid=375)### [Another Challenger Jumps into Newsom Recall Race](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22022:another-challenger-jumps-into-newsom-recall-race&catid=375)

Written by Emily Hoeven on July 07 2021.

 [ ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/23/053f-2382e733.png&src=images/stories/July-2021/053f.png&thumbnail=1200,1000,&hash=aa942080) ](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22011:politically-correct-racism&catid=375)### [Politically correct racism](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22011:politically-correct-racism&catid=375)

Written by Robert C. Koehler on July 05 2021.

 [ ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/e6/053e-e674adb8.png&src=images/stories/July-2021/053e.png&thumbnail=1200,1000,&hash=296fc5eb) ](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22002:mount-misery-and-behold-a-man-transformed-into-a-brute&catid=375)### [Mount Misery: And Behold A Man Transformed Into A Brute](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22002:mount-misery-and-behold-a-man-transformed-into-a-brute&catid=375)

Written by Abbey Zimet on July 05 2021.

 [ ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/a2/053k-a2eb98be.png) ](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21998:observations-from-the-ground-the-chinese-communist-party-s-blatant-bottom-up-u-s-takeover-from-the-local-government-level&catid=375)### [Observations From the Ground: The Chinese Communist Party’s Blatant Bottom-Up U.S. Takeover from the Local Government Level](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21998:observations-from-the-ground-the-chinese-communist-party-s-blatant-bottom-up-u-s-takeover-from-the-local-government-level&catid=375)

Written by Marc Ang on July 05 2021.

 [ ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/b5/052z-b5f93d8e.png) ](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21992:rino-and-racist-are-conversation-enders-nuance-please&catid=375)### [‘RINO’ and ‘Racist’ Are Conversation Enders: Nuance, Please](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21992:rino-and-racist-are-conversation-enders-nuance-please&catid=375)

Written by Marc Ang on July 01 2021.

 [ ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/d5/052e-d5645c71.png) ](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21980:loony-economics-republicans-blame-democrats-for-the-rise-in-chipotle-burrito-prices&catid=375)### [Loony Economics: Republicans Blame Democrats for the Rise in Chipotle Burrito Prices](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21980:loony-economics-republicans-blame-democrats-for-the-rise-in-chipotle-burrito-prices&catid=375)

Written by Robert Reich on July 01 2021.

 [ ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/22/052h-220a5d69.png) ](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21975:marjorie-taylor-greene-claims-that-teaching-about-gay-people-is-emotional-child-abuse&catid=375)### [Marjorie Taylor Greene claims that teaching about gay people is “emotional child abuse”](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21975:marjorie-taylor-greene-claims-that-teaching-about-gay-people-is-emotional-child-abuse&catid=375)

Written by Bil Browning on July 01 2021.

 [ ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/77/051f-775b1d19.png) ](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21953:the-real-fraud-republicans-voter-fraud-scare&catid=375)### [The Real Fraud: Republicans’ Voter-Fraud Scare](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21953:the-real-fraud-republicans-voter-fraud-scare&catid=375)

Written by Frances Moore Lappé, Richard R. Rowe on June 28 2021.

 [ ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/ef/051h-ef529d6d.png) ](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21949:juneteenth-for-white-folk&catid=375)### [Juneteenth for white folk](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21949:juneteenth-for-white-folk&catid=375)

Written by Tom H. Hastings on June 28 2021.

 [ ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/51/051t-516bd87f.png) ](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21946:bill-barr-on-trump-s-election-fraud-claims-it-was-all-bullsh-t&catid=375)### [Bill Barr on Trump's election fraud claims: "It was all bullsh\*t”](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21946:bill-barr-on-trump-s-election-fraud-claims-it-was-all-bullsh-t&catid=375)

Written by Axios news desk staff on June 28 2021.

 [ ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/35/050n-35441475.png) ](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21929:am-i-but-a-gadfly&catid=375)### [Am I But a Gadfly? ](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21929:am-i-but-a-gadfly&catid=375)

Written by Ashley Zeldin on June 25 2021.

 [ ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/media/yootheme/cache/8e/049i-8e899969.png) ](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21915:protecting-borders-not-life&catid=375)### [Protecting Borders, Not Life](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21915:protecting-borders-not-life&catid=375)

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