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Cardboard Art Reveals Hidden Immigrant Life Amid the Affluent
Ramiro Gomez is a young artist from San Bernardino whose pieces focus on the people who keep Los Angeles looking beautiful but are often themselves overlooked. His most notable works include cardboard figures of gardeners and housekeepers installed on the streets of Beverly Hills and West L.A.
He joins Val and Madeleine in the studio to talk about the motivation behind his pieces.
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A man's search for his missing wife who suffers from early onset Alzheimers reveals gaps in the system meant to locate and care for the mentally impaired in California. "SoCal Connected" documents the journey to answer, where's Nancy?
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Public street disrepair is costing Los Angeles millions in costly personal injury claims.
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They’re tiny, weaponized, and carry a potentially deadly payload. They’re called “Assassin Bugs” and they can be as common as the backyard mosquito or as exotic as the so-called “kissing bug"--and they're here in Southern California, spreading some of the
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SoCal Connected's Deepa Dernandes questions Santa Barbara landlord Dario Pini.
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Examine L.A.'s unregulated short-term housing market and an indoor marijuana facility employing veterans.
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A look at the spike in the number of employers retaliating against undocumented workers.
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As new developments pop up all over L.A., many are asking, 'Who approved that?'
