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Can lost art still have impact on regional history and culture?
Even some conservatives believe the GOP is dead in California. But dead (as we know) isn't really, really dead. The state GOP is still shambling forward, looking for brains
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Californians have now lived through a full election cycle with two big election reforms.
First gaining fame while still at Fairfax High School, Mear One emerged in the late 1980s as one of the city's most daring and talented street artists.
While the national media focused on El Monte's soda tax and the regional media tracked Measure J's almost win, other local elections were reshaping the political landscape.
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Collaborating with the community on a mural can unearth hidden histories.
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Raised by two dads and now married to his wife of nine years, he said "a family is a home comprised of a group of people who love each other, support each other, and protect each other."
Drawing of the Bella Union, L.A.'s first hotel, as it appeared in 1858. Courtesy of the Photo Collection, Los Angeles Public Library.
For decades after the Bella Union opened as Los Angeles' first hotel in 1849, it was the heart of civic life in the rough-edged, newly American city.
U.S. President Barack Obama gives a thumbs-up after winning the election. | Photo: SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images
Election Day turned out to be no sweat, but for returning President Obama, the days after will be another story.
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President Obama spent two years in L.A. as a student at Occidental College in Eagle Rock.
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Jose Medina walked into the banquet room at Zacateca's Restaurant on Riverside's Eastside to loud cheers and clapping of hundreds of supporters.
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San Bernardino County voters ended what is likely one of the state's most colorful political eras by ousting incumbent District 3 Supervisor Neil Derry, a Republican, in favor of Democrat James Ramos, former chairman of the San Manuel Band of Mission I...
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