This isn't the amusing asthma you see on situation comedies, that marker of nerd-dom that recedes with a few hits off an inhaler. This is the kind of asthma that sends you to the hospital for weeks.
A look at big picture stories in Southern California, including hunger in California, the Rose Parade, oil drilling in the Whittier Hills and immigration.
"My dad was a city rat, skinny dipping in the dirty blue river, and smoking in the cold gray alleys, but he was a dreamer. He ran away at seventeen to come to Los Angeles and become an engineer."
Republicans once again are attacking America's sacred wildlands, using its anti-immigrant rhetoric as cover for its assault on critical federal environmental protections.
In the West, Republicans have been gunning for the Endangered Species Act since it was enacted in 1968 and targeting the Wilderness Act (1964) even longer.