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

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Black elected officials are becoming rare in L.A. and California. So how do we retain them without giving the questionable ones a pass?
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Hi-Fi still doesn't quite have the visible cultural impact that its fellow Asian designated communities possess, but it's not a lost cause.
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An Orange County water district votes to approve importing water from the Mojave, thus claiming a minor place in a 150-year history of desert exploitation.
Ray Bradbury attends the 13th annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at UCLA in April 2008.| Photo by David Livingston/Getty Images
The mission of Curiosity to Mars, and all the other past Mars missions, might very well not have happened without Ray Bradbury.
A streetcar called Broadway may be the desire of Councilman Huizar, but downtown's loft dwellers will decide.
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The historically scandal-plagued county of San Bernardino has taken a step in the right direction.
California's fiscal house of cards falls on four Riverside County cities. One of them expects to disincorporate next year, killed by the Legislature's indifference.
Think locavore -- eating food produce within a few miles of where you live. Now think locabuild -- it worked for decades.
U.S. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks to reporters outside 10 Downing Street after meeting with British Prime Minister David Cameron in central London today. | Photo: CARL COURT/AFP/GettyImages
Anglo-Saxon is the new -- I mean, old -- American.
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This last week makes it clear: California's State Parks doesn't really want to take care of the Providence Mountains State Recreation Area. They should give it to someone who does.
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From the late 1930s through the 1990s, country western music and the hybrid culture from which it came defined much of white working class Los Angeles.
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If Democrats in the next election gain two-thirds in both state houses, increasing taxes and fees will be easy.
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