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Don't Walk Away, There is Hope
I looked down at my son and I lied. "Sometimes things are meant to die and there's nothing you can do."
Politics and Memory Along the Highways of Los Angeles
The highways of L.A. remember heroes, bureaucrats, and termed out pols. Overlapping and conflicting memorials glimpsed at 65 miles an hour are an imperfect memory, but the system can't be fixed.
All In Our Places: School Desks and the Persistence of Things
The persistence of things is part burden, part murmured dialog. Time slipping is our common condition, and we're never wholly new.
Photos of fired Los Angeles Police Department officer Christopher Dorner are seen at a press conference regarding the manhunt for Dorner. Photo: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images)
No Backup: The Lessons of Christopher Dorner
What Christoper Dorner's rampage says about love and idealism.
The group of protestors who attended the ceremony at the Eastern California Museum in Independence were primarily from a local Paiute tribe, said Klusmire. | Photo: Jon Klusmire/Eastern California Museum/County of Inyo
'There it is, Give it Back': L.A. Aqueduct Ceremony Draws Protest
It was officially a centennial ceremony, but to call it a celebration would have been taking it too far.
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The Prickly Heart Of The Desert
I have walked the desert with other people and without other people, but I have never walked the desert by myself.
Marshall and Dorella Anderson in front of the oldest building at Irving School, Riverside. | Photo: Douglas McCulloh
Saint Valentine's Day: Sweethearts Even Now, After Decades of Love
There is a wedding day and then there is the rest of your married life. Richer or poorer.
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The Taste of Love
Mist blew in. I tasted salt on both our lips.
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Restoring the Hall of Justice. Remembering Los Angeles.
Ghosts, gangsters, glamour, and grime are all part of the heritage of downtown's Hall of Justice. The iconic building from Jazz Age Los Angeles is being restored after nearly 20 years of abandonment.
East Is East and West Is West
The distinction between east and west in Los Angeles has been a fixture of the city's landscape from the beginning. But does that distinction -- even though it persists -- shape what Los Angeles is becoming?
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Proposition Aimed at Unions Exemplifies Why California Needs Initiative Reform
Do you ever wonder why there are so many ballot initiatives designed to decrease the political clout of unions? Well, simply put, because they have a lot of it.
U.S. President Barack Obama delivers his inaugural address after being sworn in as 44th US president at the Capitol in Washington on January 20, 2009. | Photo: Tim Sloan/AFP/Getty Images
The End of History?
Black History Month is upon us again. Why do we keep missing the point?
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