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The Imperial Beach border fence in 2006 | HECTOR MATA/AFP/Getty Images
How nuts is this? The U.S. is building a 300-foot-long fence into the Pacific to stop illegal migration.
Aerial view of, or through, Calexico and Mexicali's air pollution | Creative Commons photo by Omar Barcena
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.
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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."
The Border Fence | Creative Commons photo by Edmond Meinfelder
In the southern deserts the border is a fact of life. People are used to it.
"I struggled to adjust to my new life and learn English. I turned six years old, and was given a Jaws-themed game for my birthday."
The border fence at the Imperial Sand Dunes in California
Republicans once again are attacking America's sacred wildlands, using its anti-immigrant rhetoric as cover for its assault on critical federal environmental protections.
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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.
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Several days into this new year, Adolfo is nominating "Pont Neuf, Paris" as the painting of our new decade. Can we take a new path?
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