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

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Daniel Alarcon | Photo: May-Li Kohe/Library Foundation of Los Angeles
"National Public Radio is dismayingly white, and I think they know that and we all know that. That's not news. The question is what are they going to do about it."
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By the highway, next to the artificial stream, it's not so far from Walden Pond.
Los Angeles can be a tough place to make a buck making beer.
Rodney King on May 1, 1992 in Beverly Hills during a press conference where he called for the end of violence that erupted when the officers accused of beating him were acquitted. | Robert Sullivan/AFP/GettyImages
The face of the 1992 civil unrest was, in many ways, just a face.
Image: Ophelia Chong / Family Archives
How will Americans see us now? Will we be a threat of a different nature? Say economic prejudice?
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It may cost more than a billion dollars, one fifth of the county's annual budget, to build enough beds for the prison population.
Photo: Adolfo Guzman-Lopez
Adolfo Guzman-Lopez predicts a Los Angeles where Spanish is as accepted as hearing French in Quebec. 
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The victim, a 70-year-old woman from Kern County, was hospitalized but is recovering.
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There is only a short distance between "bank owned property" and a medical emergency.
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While not one Republican voted for the budget plan, no Republican votes are needed under our current system.
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California wants to use its own accountability system to improve schools rather than to abide by federally required policies from No Child Left Behind.
Students have classmates choose who belongs where. | Photo by Douglas McCulloh
I teach in an area almost written off by affluent America, in a university where "minority" students have been the majority for years. 
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