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

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Los Angeles loves wheels. David Kipen loves books.
Writer and radio commentator Jim Hightower speaks at the Orange County Progressive Summit | Photo by Shirin Parsavand
Many at the second annual Orange County Progressive Summit were more focused on local and state issues. Others took the long view.
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If Governor Brown signs SB 202, California would join the great majority of other states that limit voting on such measures to November elections.
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There is no discounting the indomitable human spirit, kindness, and resilience people showed during the fires.
My cousin was aboard the first of the two weaponized airliners deployed on September 11, 2001.
Downtown is dark after a massive blackout hit Southern California in San Diego | Photo by Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images
The major blackout Thursday was caused by one utility employee in Arizona. If you were in L.A. on September 12th in 2005, that might sound familiar.
The Metro Green Line
It's taken twenty years, but I've gotten hip to getting around town--and out of town--on trains. And I'm making connections that I didn't expect
Dandelion Clock
Spatialized sound, eye movement research, light sculpture, mediated images and an interactive dandelion are part of this week's LA media art scene.
Detail of the 'Parent Navel Orange Tree,' planted in 1873 | Photograph by Douglas McCulloh
By 1895, Riverside had the highest per capita income in America, thanks to the citrus industry.
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"Rebels in Paradise: The Los Angeles Art Scene and the 1960s" by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp offers a fast-paced and often hilarious introduction to the origins of the Los Angeles art scene.
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I'm worried. The internet is not a history book and if the book is dead, maybe so will be the exploits of the legendary East LA art group ASCO.
First Solar Stateline Scoping Meeting | Photo courtesy Basin and Range Watch
Faced with a storm of protest over the Interior Department's push for renewable energy development on public land in California, the Bureau of Land Management has taken a novel approach to managing public comment on controversial projects: don't allow ...
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