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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 street where I live is fine -- until the moment that it isn't, which is the case now after the instantly infamous shooting of Fred Martin.
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People ask me all the time how I survive, and insist that I will "die" without a car. And to them I say, "Meet two of my Asian Americans friends who don't even have driver licenses!"
State Senator BIll Emmerson addresses the Senate | Photo courtesy Senator Emmerson
His voting record is extremely conservative, so why does the right-most wing of his own party reject him?
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When her Korean mother died about a year ago, she worried what would happen to her Koreaness in her hyphenated Korean-American life.
L.A. City Administrative Officer Miguel Santana is a worried bureaucrat. He has at least 200 million reasons.
U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein | Photo: MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images
When Dianne Feinstein's campaign fund was wiped out illegally by her treasurer, she personally supplemented the millions lost. Other candidates might not have those resources.
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Reimagining a memoir sent me back to my story with results both painful and consoling.
Photograph by Douglas McCulloh
Here in Southern California, especially in the old citrus-growing regions, the first week of April is a picture-postcard replica of most lyrics in "America the Beautiful."
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When yet another dog follows me home, the only logical thing is to let it go
Behind the concrete ball hides a world of all American quirk and surprise. | Photo: Kristina Wong
When I first moved here two years ago, I was spooked by the stories of K-town's crime rates, grit, and messy urban aesthetic. But now, I've come to love it -- abandoned couches, police helicopters, and all.
Transmission lines in the Desert | Creative Commons photo by Parker Michael Knight
The BLM's scoping period runs for 30 days. This isn't enough time for most people to become familiar enough with thousands of pages of documents on complex issues to make sensible, substantive comments.
AEG and the new Dodgers organization show how the integration of politics, media, and fan loyalty will pay off for corporate showmen.
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