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What is right, wrong, innocence, guilt?
Cities are supposed to carry out the state's affordable housing mandates. Except the state has clawed back the money that's supposed to build the homes that working-class Californians need.
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Thus far the City Council has failed to put forward specific plans to regulate so-called pot shops. Two groups, both medical marijuana advocates, are proposing competing ballot initiatives.
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Surprising fact: Los Angeles is the largest manufacturing center in the nation, where almost 25% of jobs in City Los Angeles are in the industrial sectors.
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No NFL team has expressed "serious interest" in moving to Los Angeles, and the game clock runs out in six weeks.
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Sing forevermore for the late piano prodigy from Venice.
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Mission bells along Highway 101 imply that motorists' tires trace the same path as missionaries' sandals. But much of El Camino Real's story is imagined.
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On New Year's I found myself strategizing about change with somebody I didn't know -- not a bad way to start out
We took the bus to Guatemala, where we got assaulted by our coyote. He took almost everything from us.
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As we embark on the new year I encourage all of you to review the legislation proposed and passed by your representatives. Examine their other political activities. Determine for yourself whether they are doing their jobs by serving you.
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As the world marks another year's passing, life, the onrushing gift, might best be unwrapped with a moonlit neighborhood walk.
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Lewis MacAdams on environmentalism, poetry, art, and revitalization of the river.
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