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

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Every bit of the built landscape has been given shape by someone's imagination.
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California Republicans are now looking to overturn legislative lines recently drawn by California's independent redistricting commission.
Arbor Day is in April in Nebraska. It's a state holiday there. Here, everyday is Arbor Day.
Left to Right: Lou Gossett, Kevin Mitchell and LAUSD Superintendent, John Deasy | Photo by Erin Aubry Kaplan
The poor state of black males in public schools isn't exactly news or at the top of anybody's fix-it ilst --and that's the problem
Polymath
The past returns this week in the form of classical anime, Ernie Kovacs, "Powaqqatsi" and toy cameras from the 1960s, all of which are part of this week's media arts scene in LA.
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When it gets really hot, use fans and some "Chinese Thinking" to beat the heat.
A car parked in front of the Embassy of Ecuador in Washington D.C. suffered damaged from falling bricks during a 5.8 earthquake that struck the Eastern United States on August 23 (Photo by Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images)
As the go-to expert on natural hazards, Lucy Jones is often the first face and voice explaining what happened on TV and the radio in the moments, hours and days following earthquakes locally and around the globe.
Dang, that's hot.
The heat's on across the West this week, and the deserts bear the brunt of it. That boost in temperature that brings someplace like Santa Monica up to a scorching 91 degrees can make the desert as much as 30 degrees hotter.
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I'd like to be there in a pre-dawn concert as a yet unborn jarana player plugs in his wood instrument and plays the Star Spangled Banner to welcome the new day.
Is Metro cooking its books to cancel bus service in poor and working-class neighborhoods?
Assembly Speaker John Perez
It is time to enact common sense rules that allow the public to see the money given to and spent by, their elected representatives.
Supervisor Gloria Molina's redistricting plan addresses two political problems and creates two new ones.
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