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

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I went into the attic and dug out a banker's box sized container of Día de los Muertos paraphernalia.
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My neighborhood acted like a real community -- people pitching in to help me out for the good of us all. Too bad affirmative action is no longer that model.
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"Hearst broke down social strata," says Jim Allen of Hearst Castle. "He was definitely a Californian."
Does it make sense to teach teens how to tune up a car engine when their training might be made obsolete?
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So much for transparency. A donation of $11 million has been given by an Arizona non-profit corporation to two California ballot measure committees -- and that's about as much as we know at this point.
Protestors in favor of the right of gays to marry stand outside the Massachusetts State House in 2004 during Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney's term as Governor. | Photo: Michael Springer/Getty Images
A friend who actively participates in gay rights campaigns announces he's Republican and will be voting for Mitt Romney. His reasons give his friends something to think about.
Interpreted, Translated
In which the author is interpreted by a filmmaker and his students while the author's book steadily retreats
The Space Shuttle Endeavour's path is temporarily blocked by a tree as the shuttle is transported through the streets on its final journey to its permanent museum home on October 13, 2012 in Inglewood. | Photo: ROBYN BECK/AFP/GettyImages)<br />
The space shuttle event in the hood was flying high, but the main photo was grounded.
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A tiny threatened fish wins in court against 12 Southern California water agencies.
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One thing is already clear: The amount of money being given and spent to urge members of the electorate to vote "yes" or "no" on these measures is significant.
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Something is seriously wrong when our most important asset -- the education system -- has to ask for money.
Some say California's sun is setting, that Census data prove the gloomiest predictions true. But there are other ways to interpret the numbers.
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