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

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No NFL team has expressed "serious interest" in moving to Los Angeles, and the game clock runs out in six weeks.
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On New Year's I found myself strategizing about change with somebody I didn't know -- not a bad way to start out
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As we embark on the new year I encourage all of you to review the legislation proposed and passed by your representatives. Examine their other political activities. Determine for yourself whether they are doing their jobs by serving you.
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As the world marks another year's passing, life, the onrushing gift, might best be unwrapped with a moonlit neighborhood walk.
Southern California has its own way of celebrating the New Year, by taking aim at easterners who might yearn to live -- warm and snowless -- in our presumed paradise.
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For 21 years, the 134-foot-tall thermometer in the center of Baker, California has provided a landmark for people traveling on Interstate 15. That will likely remain the case for some time, though whether the thermometer remains lit depends in part on ...
Social and political forces are shaping neighborhoods to become more dependent on walking and cycling. Greater risk is an unintended consequence.
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For African Americans, the more things change, the more they stay the same
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Did it or didn't it? The end of the world, or a new beginning?
I'm the boy in front. My brother, two years older, is behind.
The stories we have our pictures tell seem to say more about us than anything about the past.
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2012 was a year of change for the California Desert, as human society elsewhere increasingly closed its grip on the desert as a place to sacrifice for our comfort. But in a couple of ways, the desert struck back.
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