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

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A new interactive map charts vulnerability to climate change in the state, and the results are bad news for Los Angeles, the Low Desert, and the San Joaquin Valley.
Right This Way
What could be wrong with local self-government? If the goal is "municipal consolidation," incorporation is just one more inconvenience.
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Challenging election law could be costly, thanks to a recent case ruling. Let's hope this decision gets appealed.
The city's oldest Jewish congregation commits itself to the future by restoring a grand monument from its -- and the city's -- past.
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The amount of one particular class of smog-forming chemicals in Los Angeles' air has dropped by a surprising amount.
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Where were you August 11, 1965? Musician Brian O'Neal remembers, in song and story, the day everything changed.
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"I don't know why this happened. We don't believe in aggression. We don't believe in violence."
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The Marines' Johnson Valley War underscores a fact of life in California: we no longer have enough desert to go around.
The county's two largest cities are near the end of their ability to "make do." There's plenty of blame for what's happening in Los Angeles and Long Beach.
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One of my least favorite things about the ballot initiatives process is the huge sums that those in favor and against these measures typically shell out during the election cycle.
The first images return from Mars, live at Planetfest in Pasadena
Live updates for the landing of Curiosity, the roving Mars Science Laboratory.
Late Saturday evening, NASA will learn if Curiosity survived the landing and is waiting for JPL's command to rove Mars, where the Space Age lingers still.
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