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

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The poor family that moved out made an impact, though not the kind of impact my neighbors expected.
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I know few humans willing to, or capable of, traversing eleven miles of ocean for a chicken wing.
After 19 years without a Los Angeles NFL team, some city are still playing fantasy football.
In the shade of every tree planted, Los Angeles was redeemed from its former possessors.
A map of the Asian/Pacific Islander population of L.A. County, by census tract.
A report outlines the issues facing L.A. County's 1,497,960 Asian Americans.
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Mike Rose is a big advocate of educating adults so they take their rightful place in the American experiment. 
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Today is the anniversary of one of the best things ever to happen to the deserts of the Southwest.
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"He's not four anymore," my wife says and I know where things are going and there is no helping it because happiness is sadness and a half smile is near to crying.
Local brewers fear they're being skunked by a permitting system that makes getting permission to open a small-scale brewery a long and expensive process.
I grew up in a sort of company town where men and women with a mediocre education could get a job at Boeing and make a fit life for themselves and their families.
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USC has always had an interesting relationship with its own neighborhood, something I discovered growing up in South Central.
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There's a lot to see in Joshua Tree, but be honest: you're not in a big enough rush to justify tailgating the locals.
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