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

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1849 taught California a harsh lesson about the permanent costs of a boom-and-bust culture. Governor Brown seems to have forgotten what the Gold Rush gave us.
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The multi-city Greater Little Saigon area in Orange County now boasts some 2,000 businesses and a population of some 125,000 residents of Vietnamese descent.
Ming Ming, Nga Pham, and Anna Nguyen toward the end of a long Friday. | Photo: Douglas McCulloh
They came here because of war, though no one might think of it that way when sitting down to get a massage or their nails painted.
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What we don't say about about the realities of black/Latino relations can hurt us.
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There is hope. It's a narrow window, but the breeze of possibility blows through it. I like to think our island fox has shown us the way.
Getting to Terminal Island and the twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach once has more than a little terror, weirdness, and even tragedy.
Metro's Blue Line is the oldest in the system. It's showing its age and its limitations. Long Beach city officials hope for some improvement.
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The Crenshaw Subway Coalition is making a difference -- really.
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Chris Martinez left an indelible trail. This is a fine thing, because there can never be enough smiles.
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The city of Yucca Valley has high hopes that it will be able to make itself indistinguishable from any other uninteresting cluster of stripmalls in the state.
I was going to take the rosary away when, thinking better of it, I walked back.
Studio One Eleven - the people behind the 'parklets' idea - have re-imagined waiting for a plane. Think of it as your holiday on a modernist main street. You may want to rebook to a later flight.
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