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SoCal Focus is a blog about the people, places, and issues in and around Southern California.

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Currently Super PACs can essentially flood the debate with speech, which is anonymous. The moral of the story, there is more than enough money to go around, it is just spent in campaigns.
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A big picture look at the region with stories about high-speed rail, government transparency in Anaheim and the promise of California.
Can our ports co-exist with environmental justice for harbor-area residents?
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What will the loss of CRA's mean to South Central and other long-blighted places across the state? The answer, like the future of these places, isn't really clear.
Mill and the Cross
This week's media art scene is political, conceptual, beautiful and provocative, a perfect way to start a new year.
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With a bag of tools and a license, a new immigrant can start earning money quickly by using their community to find a job.
Looking through the gate at the former site of Occupy L.A. | Photo by Jason Rosencrantz
An inside look at the trial of an arrested Occupy L.A. protestor.
Solar panels shade cars in the parking lot of Patagonia's corporate headquarters in Ventura, Calif.
The law is "going to separate out the green washers."
Olvera Street, Los Angeles
A big picture look at the region, including stories about police wearing cameras, homeless slayings in Orange County and more.
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The trovadores, the Spanish speaking troubadors of Los Angeles, will not forget May 1, 2007 in MacArthur Park. A group of them has released a CD of songs in tribute to the men, women, and children who suffered the pain of police batons and rubber bulle...
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A big picture look at the region, including stories about health insurance, Santa Ana's gentrification, L.A.'s budget problems and more.
Los Angeles was beautiful then (more beautiful than we realized or cared to consider).
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