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I do worry about the children. How do they see a bulletproof backpack? What do they think about a playground fenced off on the weekend? What does this look like to someone who still believes in Santa Claus?
Without the Clean Water Act, the fetid sewers in South Los Angeles and across town would waft the smell of rotten eggs.
As cars and trucks become more fuel efficient and more all electric and hybrid vehicles take to the road, states are seeing gas tax revenues shrink.
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California, and Los Angeles specifically, has always been considered a laboratory of the future.
The Getty's "Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future, 1940 - 1990" and the Huntington's "Maynard L. Parker: Modern Photography and the American Dream" consider how Los Angeles sought to be forever modern.
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How does Orange County's conservative Asian American population reflect the region's past?
Students watch teachers, parents and students chanting slogans on a picket line outside Crenshaw High School to protest teacher layoffs planned by the Los Angeles Unified School District in 2009. | Photo: ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images
The breakup of a grassroots campaign to save Crenshaw High points to the racial failures of all of us
Al Lisby. | Photo: Douglas McCulloh
You might think that we've all heard this speech, these words, before. All of us in America, by now. We have. But I stood, transfixed, unable to move, looking out the window while he said words not as often quoted.
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"Aaron's legacy has had a huge influence on my art," said XVALA in a statement promoting the upcoming exhibition.
Circa 1905 postcard of L.A.'s Arcade Depot
These train depots, long since vanished, provided tourists' and emigrants' first introduction to Los Angeles, helping shape their ideas about the city.
Both sides of her family came from the same town in Italy -- but arrived in America under very different circumstances.
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Archetypal tech prodigy Aaron Swartz took his own life Friday. I've spent the days since thinking about the price people pay when they try to make the world a better place.
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