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

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Driven Out
Most cities in California have a city manager whose job, among many others, is to turn good ideas into workable programs.
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It is distressingly easy to amend our state constitution through a disturbingly broken process, the ballot initiative process.
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In these economically times, the festive weekend is also a time to remember our family, friends, and neighbors who may not have the security of a job.
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Imperial County has the highest unemployment in California. Again.
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California's cities earn overwhelming approval from voters. The Legislature has a dismal rating.
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There were more than 70 fundraisers this month as legislators were finalizing the session, voting on numerous bills.
Seven years ago, Hurricane Katrina displaced my family in New Orleans -- and my own sense of a home I never lived in
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It has long been the (Asian) American Dream to be well-represented and recognized in the mainstream
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The National Association of Hispanic Journalists has been around nearly 30 years and it's never had an L.A chapter?
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Does this weekend's swarm of earthquakes mean the Big One is coming? Yes... but not in the way you might think.
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Athough less than a dozen humans are killed by sharks each year, fishermen kill 100 million sharks annually.
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In looking for a poet laureate we may reconcile some of our past and find ways of looking at our common future.
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