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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 ten-year anniversary of the Iraq War is hardly cause for celebration -- so what is it cause for?
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Sex. Anger. Lust. Now I know you'll read.
The Sahara mustard -- a fast-growing invasive weed -- has begun to crowd out desert wildflowers. Ecologies and economies are at risk.
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I've often noticed that many environmentally inclined people dislike deserts. Sometimes it's as benign as a matter of personal preference for where to spend outdoor time. Sometimes it's an actual dismissal of the land's value. Allan Savory takes it eve...
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Black L.A. could certainly use change. Maybe we're not thinking big enough.
AEG is off the market, its leadership in disarray. What's to become of Farmer's Field? Only the NFL knows.
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We are a strange and sometimes beautiful species.
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The Nova, primer-gray like raincloud, was an icon that everyone wanted to see, to honor the owner who would never finish restoring it. Officer Crain was sitting in the passenger seat of his patrol car 32 days ago when he was shot and killed by former ...
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How long, like a dull echo, does a killing reverberate? For a death in an onion field in Kern County, it's been fifty years.
Out on the "great flat" of the Los Angeles Basin, winners and losers in dozens of city elections were tentatively adding up what their voters intended.
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Forthcoming film "Who Are My People?" is not just a one-hour exploration of conflicts between Native people anxious to defend their culture and the rush to develop the desert for utility-scale solar power, it's also a profoundly personal statement abou...
Walking around an Inglewood landmark after a long time way made me think about the city's mixed past and its still unclear future
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