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

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Having your ability to breathe deemed less important than the right of urbanites to keep and bear obsolete green lawns does something to your self-esteem.
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How often do we step ahead when standing still is what matters?
The breakwater that separates Long Beach from the Catalina Channel was one of the great works of construction in the 1940s. Today, the City of Long Beach is moving closer to taking some of the breakwater down.
Once a corporate record of how Southern California was electrified, the Edison collection at the Huntington Library is now something more -- time machine, site of enigmas, and zone of investigation of the city's modern dichotomies.
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It's been 21 years since the April 29 that will live in local infamy. But what are those who weren't even around back then think about it?
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Starving sea lion pups are washing up on Southern California beaches in record numbers -- at a rate five times the norm. It has gotten so bad the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has declared an "unusual mortality event."
Commencement address delivered to the graduates of the Master's Program in Urban Sustainability of Antioch University Los Angeles.
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Imperial County is the California desert's toxic capital, with places like the east Coachella Valley and a few other spots not far behind.
Architect Richard Neutra explored domesticated modernity in his mid-20th Century homes. House-proud collectors today pay a premium to own one. Now you can build your own "new" Neutra. But why?
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The purpose of the video at UC Irvine was innocent enough -- that is, until one of the members performed in blackface.
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Tony Wafford fights the good fight -- mostly alone -- for HIV awareness in places that need it the most.
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What happened to us? When did we become so elevator-silent, so dour, so proper, so scrunch-faced, so mature?
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