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SoCal Connected
February 17, 2011
Reporter Lisa Napoli profiles college students who struggle to feed themselves while paying for their education. Plus, from banquet halls to movie sets in Southern California, perfectly good food ends in landfills. Anchor Val Zavala introduces you to people who have found ways to waste less food and feed more people. And last but not least, award season means the appearance of a whole new crop of issue-based lapel ribbons. Our funny man, Brian Unger, cracks the color code.
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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?'