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

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Brown is the new black, something that can be both troubling and inspiring when you're trying to be a role model for the future.
Image: Ophelia Chong<br />
If you can't play with a sense of humor, why bother?
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Conservatives prevailed in most contests, incumbents had a bit of an advantage, and turnout was spotty.
Murkier and murkier are the politics of the Central Basin Municipal Water District, affecting how much two million L.A. County residents pay for water.
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Regardless of your party affiliation, or lack of affiliation, I encourage each of you to exercise a right too many of us take for granted. 
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In a welter of choices, how to choose?
Photos of Rosa Parks hang at a highway overpass in Los Angeles named for the American civil rights icon after a tribute by black community leaders on October 25, 2005. | Photo: ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images
Memorial Day was an occasion for me to remember -- not the war dead, but the price of social victory discussed at a backyard reunion of childhood friends.
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Just because good government reforms (such as term limits, redistricting, and open primaries) will make elections more expensive does not mean they are bad reforms -- Far from it. But it does mean we need to consider all of the consequences of reforms ...
Image: George Chong
My early years with my mother taught me how to think outside the box. I learned how to use one tool a dozen ways.
Cain Jimenez and 1933 Plymouth | Photograph by Douglas McCulloh
People who still make something we can drive, like the Jimenez Bros, are artisans putting another coat of primer and then custom flames or candyflake on better dreams.
The County Board of Supervisors plans a poll of property owners to win approval of a parcel tax to begin remediation of urban runoff.
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What I saw, heard, and the presence of a man not there didn't fully come together until I started to write a poem.
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