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

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Back in January the estimate was that California was in debt, to the tune of $9.2 billion. Now it's close to $16 billion.
We were in such a hurry to get there, and then the future was here, but not as we expected it.
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After more than thirty years, the home-grown band the BusBoys are still making music worth more than the minimum wage
Scarecrow, a pared-down twin of the Mars Curiosity Rover, went for a test ride on the Dumont Dunes in California's Mojave Desert on Thursday, May 10, 2012 | Photo: Chris Clarke/KCET
Scarecrow was brought to the Dumont Dunes to give rover operators a little more data to aid in negotiating the sand traps of the Red Planet when the Mars Science Laboratory Lands in August.
Edmund Lee Young | Photo: Ryan Young
Losing someone close to you is when you shut down the senses; you cannot hear, touch, feel, see, or taste.
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I witnessed the ways in which hundreds of thousands of the people we work with, stand in line behind, watch Lakers games next to, and sit in traffic with in Southern California carry the genocide of their ancestors.
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Palm Springs has a conflicted relationship with good taste. The town is a somewhat self-conscious shrine to the Mid-Century Modern aesthetic, with houses, bank buildings and diners reflecting that artistic movement.
A worker finishes installing solar panels funded by federal stimulus funds atop a government building in 2010 in Lakewood, Colorado. | Photo by John Moore/Getty Images
The Obama administration has made it no secret that green energy is the heart of its economic plan, not to mention its re-election bid.
A lot has changed since April 1992. Mostly, there are a lot fewer jobs from which a decent life might be made.
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Here are two fairly uncontroversial things that I believe: First, fewer people should smoke since smoking can cause serious health risks; second, more money should go to cancer research. But here is a third, more controversial belief: The initiative pr...
1992 was a long time coming in neighborhoods across Los Angeles County; it will be a long time going.
'Wild Thing,' Kenny Asche's fire-breathing 1978 Camero. | Photo: Courtesy Andrea Kaus
Pinstripes and swirls. Nine-foot flames lifting from custom hoods. The percussive revving of engines. Custom upholstery, gleaming chrome and candyflake paint. It must be spring, and time for one of the best parts of being a Southern Californian -- ...
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