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Good news for Mojave Desert wildlife and the people who value it: Representative Paul Cook has called for a full Federal environmental review of the controversial Cadiz Water Project, which would pump water from a desert aquifer to suburbs in Orange Co...
Doomed By Sunshine
Science proves that Angeleños are slackers, easily distracted, and barely rational. But that's okay, because it's not our fault. The problem is our climate.
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Driving a less than lovely car in L.A. doesn't mean what it used to. That's both bad and good.
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As of 2011, D.J. Waldie's posts can be found elsewhere on KCET.org where he writes on two blogs...
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Our new/old Governor Jerry Brown is inaugurated into a job that promises to be more trouble than even this old pol can skillfully navigate.
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These are the empty days. Their hours are filled with blank stares past cubicle walls and through tinted windows. The end is not over and the beginning is far from started.
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The 20-year struggle to get a shopping center built at Slauson and Central reveals long-standing problems with the politics of development in L.A.
My Christmas Eve Mud Pie
Boy oh boy oh boy. I did some seriously excellent eating this Christmas.
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Despite a staggering economy, the number of murders in L.A. has fallen to 1967 levels--which given our 30 percent population rise since then, a murder rate even lower than that.
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History is an assembly of stories. And it is wise of writers of history to know that stories are never as simple as the teller might prefer.
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Erik Loyer's lovely new iPhone app delivers a powerful and poetic experience of music and storytelling based on the evocative state produced by rain.
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An unexpected downpour is a reminder of Christmas babies, bird guano, and the guns of August 1914.
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