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That the Los Angeles region is pretty dense already is the counter-intuitive finding of a new Census Bureau report.
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The palm is definitely found; CEQA is severely questioned; Proposition 13's doubters have their own. And "where we are" gets a bit clearer.
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Would expressly shielding cities from liability lead to more dog parks? Lawyers, insurance providers, city council members, and legislators don't necessarily agree that it would.
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Ever so slowly, California has begun unwinding a tax policy called the "third rail" of politics for its presumed ability to take down any politician who dares touch it.
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Skid Row is a "Petri dish" for cultivating human misery. That now includes a strain of tuberculosis that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had tagged as unique to downtown. What began as a "health crisis" has become a "moral crisis."
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AEG is off the market, its leadership in disarray. What's to become of Farmer's Field? Only the NFL knows.
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An alphabet soup of the promoters, players, and policies are shaping Los Angeles. It's not an appetizing mix.
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As cars and trucks become more fuel efficient and more all electric and hybrid vehicles take to the road, states are seeing gas tax revenues shrink.
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Cities are supposed to carry out the state's affordable housing mandates. Except the state has clawed back the money that's supposed to build the homes that working-class Californians need.
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No NFL team has expressed "serious interest" in moving to Los Angeles, and the game clock runs out in six weeks.
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Opossums wander our backyards by night and occasionally startle a homeowner, who imagines that nothing so wild could be part of everyday life.
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Does your city have too many police officers or not enough? A new study suggests there is an answer, but it's not likely to be one that your city council will care to hear.
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While the national media focused on El Monte's soda tax and the regional media tracked Measure J's almost win, other local elections were reshaping the political landscape.
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San Bernardino County voters ended what is likely one of the state's most colorful political eras by ousting incumbent District 3 Supervisor Neil Derry, a Republican, in favor of Democrat James Ramos, former chairman of the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians.
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California's desert has voted, with turnout running around 50%, and the results of each Congressional race will likely surprise no one - but it looks as though the region may have shifted ever so slightly toward the liberal end of the spectrum.
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Friday's debate between contenders for California's 36th Congressional District's seat got ugly fast.
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Mary Bono Mack's campaign's attempt to cast Democratic challenger Raul Ruiz as a wild-eyed leftist seems to be fizzling.
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Brown doubles down on a bad idea, voting replacements for development and affordable housing programs.
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The City of Industry has just 88 registered voters. Like Vernon, Industry is a bunker pretending to be a city. They are just two of the county's "phantom cities."
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The political stands taken by candidates in the Third District supervisor's race in San Bernardino are hard to unravel -- sometimes even if you ask the candidates directly.
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I Am Los Angeles: Strings of Success
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