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

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Our state's highest court is wading into a confused thicket of laws concerning marijuana, and more specifically medical marijuana. Here is a quick synopsis of the legal landscape.
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There's a new Walmart in Simi Valley. It's the second Walmart there -- on the same street, miles away. What do all these big boxes in Ventura County mean?
Vertical Fields
The city's Adaptive Reuse Ordinance succeeded in turning empty office buildings into residential lofts. Downtown needs even more ideas for building tomorrow's city.
The scandal of priestly abuse, abetted by silence, leaves priests and the faithful less able to minister to each other.
Commuters wait to take a ride on a L.A. Metro train at the a rail station Compton. | Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images
From Compton down to El Segundo, blacks just can't seem to live in peace.
Photo: Douglas McCulloh
This is what it means to have been a teacher for 30 years, as of this new January quarter.
Photo: Michael Jekogian
It's the people you never hear of who really make a difference. And the boys from New Jersey and the California surfboard shaper fit that bill.
Which Is Home?
Making something out of the American landscape, one house at a time.
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The desert is defined by its lack of rain. Ironic, then, that it's during rainstorms that the desert most truly expresses its nature.
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Caltrans announced today it has put in place ways to warn desert travelers of such massive traffic jams like the catastrophic February 12, 2012 backup.
What would you chart as a guide to the city you know? Beaches, radio stations, Hollywood beauty salons, taquerías, swimming pools, the other downtowns of Los Angeles?
 | Photo: Courtesy MonaLisa Whitaker
The Morningside Park Chronicle is a new paper that's determined to get Inglewood right.
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