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All politics may be local, but the dollars are definitely long distance. Here's one race that exemplifies the new reality -- one in which Super PACs and some new rules approved by the voters have dramatically changed the choices on Election Day.
 Clydesdale draft horses pull a fire wagon as they enter the 1958 Rose Parade in Pasadena | Photo by Earl Leaf/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
How horses caused a break with tradition.
California's cap-and-trade offset system rewards the Yurok Tribe for placing 8,000-plus acres of Douglas fir and hardwood into the state’s carbon bank. | photo California Air Resources Board
California's program to control greenhouse gas emissions is in limbo
Californians need to pitch in to save the Spanish language.
Our State’s Original Language Is in Decline and It’s Up to California Save It
A plaque is seen in front of the Pasadena residence where Barack Obama lived during his sophomore year at Occidental College | Photo by John Antczak/Associated Press
There's even a proposal for a “President Barack H. Obama Freeway.”
Two of the three kittens born to P-39. One of the males, P-52, was killed Dec. 20. |  Photo taken June 2016, National Park Service
Both killed on the same stretch of the 118
The Donald Trump piñata on a closet shelf | photo by Joe Mathews
My Trump Hasn't Made Any Racist Statements or Told Any Lies—But I Still Don't Know What to Do With Him
Protest sign showing images of Ezell Ford during Black Lives Matter protest June 2015 | photo Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images
Report says LAPD Officers "acted lawfully in self-defense and in defense of others."
Undocumented children in California could lose health coverage if the Trump administration ends Obamacare | photo by Maria J. Avila
Is the state obligated to care for sick children regardless of immigration status?
International Migrants Day Rally, Los Angeles Dec. 2016
Immigrant advocates are scrambling after new Executive Orders.
California border along Algodones sand dunes | photo via CALmatters
A border wall is not a new concept
Demonstrators at LAX protest Pres.Trump's executive order to ban entry into the US to travelers from seven Muslim countries.  Jan. 31, 2017 | Photo by Ronen Tivony/NurPhoto/Getty Images
Those with valid immigration visas can't be blocked at LAX
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