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It's hard to know whether the Central Basin Municipal Water District's fiscal chaos is worse than its organizational chaos. What's certain is that the district is in hot water up to its neck.
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The Gas House in Venice, where "Beatniks beat bongos in the basement," was the scene of countless battles with the "squares."
Citrus trees in Placentia, 1961. Photo courtesy of the Orange County Archives.
Images from the Orange County Archives reveal the rural landscape that came before tract houses, superhighways, and Disneyland.
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The proposal includes plans for adjustment of the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area to provide more recreational opportunities for urban residents.
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Look past the public art movement created by Los Angeles murals in the last 30 years and you will find a structure of civic policy that combatively drove the city's visual identity.
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For our outreach effort, we created a survey that included 5 questions, and passed it out to juniors and seniors.
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Our team passed out postcards that asked, "What do you want to see at the first dog park in El Monte?" and "Could this be the site of El Monte's first dog park?"
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Here's why venture capitalist Tim Draper's campaign to make a half-dozen Californias is best regarded as a PR stunt.
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You can't go to a Japanese department store on the Miracle Mile anymore, but you can do it in Hollywood, which, together with downtown proper, increasingly seems to constitute the city's separate-but-linked urban core.
Lake San Antonio, which is near the Monterey/San Luis Obispo county border, was found to be nearly dry on January 15, 2014.
The hills are not green. In places, they are not even brown. They look almost alkaline. Gray. Sickly, like something's bled from the land.
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One of the most famous scientific experiments in human history was performed in the San Gabriels during the 1920s.
I'm a habitual jaywalker. Sort of. Almost every day I cross a four-lane boulevard between two signalized intersections to reach the end of my block on the other side. I have my reasons.
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