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

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Trail warning sign in Section 36 | Creative Commons photo by Cobber99
Want to get people in the Coachella Valley stirred up in true "baseball bat to the hornets' nest" style? It's easy. Threaten our hiking trails.
Josefina Vazquez Mota on stage at a Zocalo event
Outside MOCA Martin Lopez yells in Spanish at the top of his lungs, "Josefina Vazquez Mota, is the same thing, blood, violence, unemployment."
With $5 gas, public transit's time has come. But some potential riders will find that the experience lacks an essential value.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks during a July 2011 campaign stop at the Valley Plaza shopping center Los Angeles.| Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images
California could play a role in picking who President Obama's opponent will be. California does not hold its primary election until June 5th. Typically this is late enough in the primary season that the parties have already picked their nominees. Mayb...
LACMA's slowly rolling rock is a great publicity stunt for the humane values of public places.
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Reading "Deepest Valley: A Guide to Owens Valley, Its Roadsides and Mountain Trails" on a recent trip up the 395 to Mammoth brought an avalanche of memories about the edges of town I've lived in.
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Rush Limbaugh's attack against Sandra Fluke is rightfully costing the radio talk-show giant. But John and Ken's attack on Whitney Houston isn't getting nearly the response.
Lisa Mann
Animation figures prominently this week in LA's media art scene, with a festival, feature film, and more...
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As a person who is very proud of her Chinese heritage, I am distressed at how the same people who invented the compass could loose their bearings over greed.
The Visitor Center at Providence Mountains SRA, November 2008 | Annette Rojas photo
In 1996 Rep. Jerry Lewis made a budget move that prevented the National Park Service from acquiring Providence Mountains State Recreation Area, a State Parks unit now closed due to budget cuts.
Photograph by Douglas McCulloh
None of this would be in this long desert valley without two essentials brought from other places years ago, or months ago, or yesterday: water and workers.
All Natural
Nature in Los Angeles is woven into a long history of instability and human intervention. But it's all that we have.
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