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

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Sheriff John is dead. So is Engineer Bill. What lasts is the imaginative life cultivated by afterschool TV.
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It seems to me that this was a missed opportunity for two individuals with comparable goals to use a terribly imperfect process to achieve a common aim.
By some measures, L.A.'s streets are among the most dangerous in the nation for pedestrians.
U.S. President Barack Obama (R) speaks during his debate with Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney (L). | Photo: STF/AFP/GettyImages
What was President Obama really missing in the presidential debate yesterday? The real lessons of Hollywood acting.
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I'm betting that the issue of homelessness gives all of us pause.
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Last week I had the pleasure of speaking to hundreds of high school students for a "Constitution Day" event.
Brown doubles down on a bad idea, voting replacements for development and affordable housing programs.
Raquel Marquez-Britsch. | Photo: Douglas McCulloh
"I'm a bracero's daughter. To be a judge here, in the Inland Empire, means everything."
The City of Industry has just 88 registered voters. Like Vernon, Industry is a bunker pretending to be a city.
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks during a campaign rally at the Farm Bureau Live arena, on September 27, 2012 in Virginia Beach, Virginia. | Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images
As the election approaches, a group of seniors reminds me that the black struggle to matter in politics is nothing new.
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Blacklava's socially conscious and light-hearted designs convey a decidedly Asian American perspective.
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This is good news for all of you procrastinators out there.
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