June 2012 Archives
Weather:
Residents of low desert areas in Riverside County are being told to take care as temperatures are expected to hit and stay in the triple digits over the next week.
Commentary:
This morning pressed on big questions of liberty, progress, and the fate of a lost dog.
Commentary:
I see my present through my online past. Blurry images and partial thoughts haunt me in the HTML graveyard.
Notes of a Native Daughter:
I thought my job was to make them write about stucco and wood framing, about gated communities and urban apartment complexes, about bedrooms decorated with designer furniture, and kitchens where twelve people sat around one table. You can be...
LA as Subject:
We asked L.A. as Subject members to search their archives for the oldest object related to Southern California history. This week, we share six of their submissions -- including photographs, official decrees, even an Etruscan wine chalice.
Commentary:
Brown styles himself as an iconoclast but his attacks on California's landmark environmental law are politics as usual.
Environment:
San Luis Obispo is joining a growing number of cities that are taking green paint to pavement to make space for cyclists.
Where We Are:
Light in Los Angeles has many seasons. Right now, it's the season when concrete-colored skies turn the city dull.
Commentary:
Even with "good government" reforms, we don't vote. And negative advertising seems effective.
Where We Are:
Celebrations begin Sunday, June 10 for the rancho's new interpretive center and restoration project.
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