#  Editor’s Memo: Solutions vs. Sound Bites

     Details    Ken Draper   ![logo](https://www.citywatchla.com//templates/ja_teline_v/images/logo.png)         July 11 2016       [WORLD WATCH](https://www.citywatchla.com/world-watch)   - [  Previous Article **Editor’s Memo: Exposed** ](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11469:editor-s-memo-exposed&catid=332)
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> CITYWATCH TODAY-- *The tragic deaths of Alton Sterling, Philando Castile and five Dallas police officers over the past 10 days has produced torrent of public chatter. Most of it meaningless. Finger pointing … “Barack Obama is responsible for the deaths of those Dallas police officers”. Tired clichés … “We have to do better.” Advice from non-experts on who has to be more ‘respectful’ to whom. Not an honest-to-god solution in sight.
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> *CityWatch is posting a think-piece by Zoe Weil because it offers real and meaningful solutions. I hope you will give them serious thought. Then, I hope you will commit yourself to taking serious action on one of the most important issues facing our country. We need more meaningful solutions, fewer meaningless sound bites.*

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**Reform** and **Ballot Measures** occupy a bunch of posting space these days. In CityWatch Today, Tony Wilkinson takes us on the DWP reform tour and Bob Gelfand jumps into the Neighborhood Council reform debate. Tony makes a serious effort to help us understand the DWP reform plan set for the November ballot. Bob works his way through James Preston Allen’s open letter to City Council President Herb Wesson which … is all about NC reform. The clock is ticking. Has your Neighborhood Council weighed in?

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**LA’s Homeless Crisis** tops the ‘incoming’ these days. Been a top 5 subject for months now. It’s another November ballot conversation. LA Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas says that polls show Angelenos are ready to pay for Homeless funding with a tax. You’ll find his perspective … and much, much more … in Today’s CityWatch.

Check it out. Let us know what you think. What you think is important to us.

Ken Draper-Editor, CityWatch

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