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

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In Cudahy, Compton, San Fernando, Santa Ana, Santa Fe Springs, Stanton, Vernon, and Westminster, city officials are giving local government a bad name.
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Crenshaw is no Sunset Boulevard -- and yet they are connected.
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The South Coast Air Quality Management District refuses to tell Coachella Valley officials what's happening with $53 million in grant funding.
A Bike Nation bicycle sharing kiosk. | Photo: Courtesy Bike Nation
It's a first for California cities, but others like San Francisco and Los Angeles are not far behind.
Saturday night with Randolph Scott, a lone cricket, and some thoughts on the sounds of summer.
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Our government is too big and too complex to make decisions on a piecemeal basis.
Does urbanizing L.A. face the "Tragedy of the Commons" when users share a limited transportation resource?
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Fairmount Park in Riverside, CA was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, known for Central Park in New York City and others.
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Narrative nonfiction is certainly personal, but it's also political, historical -- and racial. When I put all those things together in a lecture last month, minor hell broke loose.
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I found the god of rain and water on Arlington Avenue, just a couple blocks south of the shuttered Washington Irving branch library.
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If there's a defining characteristic of deserts, it's that they're uncomfortable. That's not L.A.
The "exclusively industrial" enclave is a zombie city: leaderless, stumbling, hungry, and apparently uncontrollable.
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