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

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The West Cost is bracing itself for debris from the devastating tsunami that hit Japan more than a year ago.
How We Look in 2012
It's not just California that has adopted a peculiar form of civic vandalism. Cities across the country are feeling the pressure.
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Residents of low desert areas in Riverside County are being told to take care as temperatures are expected to hit and stay in the triple digits over the next week.
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This morning pressed on big questions of liberty, progress, and the fate of a lost dog.
Image: Ophelia Chong
I see my present through my online past. Blurry images and partial thoughts haunt me in the HTML graveyard.
One group of students wrote two words that meant home -- brothers, music, junk food, friends -- on their palms. | Photo by Douglas McCulloh
I thought my job was to make them write about stucco and wood framing, about gated communities and urban apartment complexes, about bedrooms decorated…
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Brown styles himself as an iconoclast but his attacks on California's landmark environmental law are politics as usual.
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San Luis Obispo is joining a growing number of cities that are taking green paint to pavement to make space for cyclists.
Light in Los Angeles has many seasons. Right now, it's the season when concrete-colored skies turn the city dull.
Photo: Jessica Levinson
Even with "good government" reforms, we don't vote. And negative advertising seems effective.
Celebrations begin Sunday, June 10 for the rancho's new interpretive center and restoration project.
Photograph by Douglas McCulloh
Although many classic cars and trucks are like emblems of American history, the Apache truly gets a particular kind of historic love from people of all backgrounds.
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