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

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The lessons of adult education are sublime, but in the age of austerity it's the latest thing on LAUSD's chopping block
'Lost Angeles' Artwork for the Schauffhausen book | Image: Ophelia Chong
During one of our breaks we were walking through the town square when he turned to me and said, "They all must be saying, 'what is he doing walking with that Chinese lady?'"
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A court settlement over a cross in Mojave National Preserve hands a symbolic victory to opponents of the Preserve's existence, and will lead to further development of one of California's natural treasures.
They welcomed the flotsam of the early 20th century city with a "genteel" offering of dance music, sing-alongs, and the possibility of romance.
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The prop did more than lower the threshold required to pass the state budget.
From Brazil to California, a new way of deciding what cities should do and how they pay for it.
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Inspired development, to say nothing of redevelopment, didn't really happen after 1992. But then, what did you expect?
A scene from Katselas Theatre's remount of Twilight: Los Angeles 1992  Photo Credit: Heather Wynters
I consider the George Holliday video of Rodney King's beating and the subsequent news footage of the L.A. Riots to be my first American reality show. Instead of an elimination ceremony, ring ceremony, or final weigh-in, it was the acquittal of four po...
Astronomers gather outside the Mount Wilson Observatory, circa 1920. Courtesy of the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, USC Libraries.
Before light pollution transformed the night sky into a dull glow, Southern California's generally cloudless climate attracted some of the world's finest astronomers to the region.
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Economic hardship in the U.S. and increasing obstacles to informal border crossing have made the northward trek far less enticing to would-be job seekers. So why does Representative Rob Bishop want to ramp up extreme border protections even further?
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150,000 visitors, 400 authors, and dread occupy the 17th Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
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Jesse Linares re-shaped the way the Spanish language news covers the region's significant Central American population. And did it with a passion to get the story first, get it right, and hold to account those with powerful and influence.
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