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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 Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County is getting a new permanent exhibition ready. It will help us understand how we became Los Angeles.
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Columnist Erin Aubry Kaplan learns that when animal rescue doesn't work, it hurts.
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The end of Jalama Road in Santa Barbara County may be beautiful, but dawdling along it can be just as rejuvenating.
A letter found at the swap meet gives a young visitor's vivid account of Mount Wilson's observatories during the first months of World War II.
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It may be one of the most quintessential Southern California landmarks, beloved by thousands, and now it's made national news.
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A funny thing happened on the way to Election Day for this congressional race in San Bernardino County. New York City's mayor got involved and changed the outcome.
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The inflatables on my block whir and glow at night, grinning Christmas cheer. In the gray light of morning, their expression has changed.
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This month Californians experienced a full round of elections under our new open primary, top-two election system and our new legislative lines, drawn for the first time in the state's history by an independent redistricting commission.
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It looks like the large rainstorm now bearing down on Southern California may skip the desert, or at least most of the desert.
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The future of Crenshaw High, and the movement for educational justice in Los Angeles, hangs in the balance
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I whistle as I drive because this road makes me happy, and long ago I ascertained that getting lost presents no problem if you don't care.
Californians buy one out of every ten new cars sold in America. Southern Californians buy most of those.The L.A. Auto Show has been packing them in since 1907 to show what their future on wheels will be.
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