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Dennis Zine
SoCal Focus
Mobile Billboard Operators Try Bicycles as a Workaround to Law
Post date:Just months into a new Los Angeles law banning standalone mobile billboard displays on city streets, operators behind them are trying to find loopholes. One of the more prolific examples (and one that will likely induce a double take) are bicycles.
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la county
SoCal Focus
Nuestro pueblo
Post date:This week, the city began a one-year "trial partnership" with the County Art Museum to manage the future of the Watts Towers, which need $5 million for further conservation efforts.
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Claremont
SoCal Focus
Forget the Garden of Eden
Post date:Here's a problem with wilderness. We tend to think of it as unmanaged and, by definition, unmanageable--a place apart. There is the built environment, where we live; and the natural landscape, where we do not. A look into this via a park in Claremont.
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Antelope Valley
SoCal Focus
Metrolink's Antelope Valley Service Could Improve with Double Tracking Project
Post date:1.3 miles of double tracking for Metrolink's Antelope Valley line means more capacity or increased chances of express service.
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American Indians
SoCal Focus
Excavation at L.A. Museum Halted, Simple Internet Search May Be Cause
Post date:Excavation at a downtown Los Angeles museum was halted Friday after two weeks of controversy over the work continuing despite the discovery of skeletal remains more than two months ago.
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la plaza de cultura y artes
SoCal Focus
Museum Excavation Continues as American Indians Call for Work to Stop
Post date:Skeletal remains found at the construction site of a downtown Los Angeles museum have been a focal point for American Indians in Southern California this week. Despite requests to stop archaeological excavation from a state commission, work continues, ...
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railroads
SoCal Focus
Upgrades Sought to Antiquated Railroad Between L.A. and San Luis Obispo
Post date:Take a trip from Los Angeles to San Luis Obispo on Amtrak's Pacific Surfliner and it will eat about five and a half hours of your day, about two hours more than by car. With increasing demand for service the state, which subsidizes the route, is lookin...
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la county
SoCal Focus
American Indian Board Wants L.A. Museum Project Stopped
Post date:Human remains found at the downtown L.A. museum construction site of LA Plaza De Cultura y Artes have prompted a state commission to request the project be stopped while an investigation determines if they are of American Indian origin or not.
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San Bernardino National Forest
SoCal Focus
Two SoCal Congressmen Introduce Wilderness Bills
Post date:Two Republican Congressmen have proposed to protect 40,000 acres of wilderness in Southern California.
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la county
Commentary
County DCFS Head Lands At Other County Job After Removal
Post date:Trish Ploehn loses her job as head of L.A. County's Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) because of the agency's troubles--but settles into another county job at over a quarter million a year salary.
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la county
Commentary
Under contract
Post date:The turmoil in Maywood has reduced city government there to an apparent phantom. Maywood has no police department now and no city staff.
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la county
Commentary
Resist
Post date:The music of troubadors, political prisoners, and socialist revolutionaries of yesteryear attracted a spill-out crowd at an east Long Beach coffee shop on Friday night.
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la county
Commentary
State Reaches Budget Deal; L.A. County Might Sue
Post date:The governor and legislature have reached a tentative budget deal--and L.A. County doesn't like it a bit.
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la county
Commentary
L.A. County's Next Fiscal Crisis: More Elderly
Post date:An already-strapped L.A. county is facing what could be called a "senior tsunami."
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budgets
Commentary
L.A. County Budget Tries to Account for Property Tax Shortfall
Post date:L.A. County has unveiled a new budget filled with cuts and adjustments--but it doesn't account for many other very likely looming cash shortfalls.
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Christmas
Commentary
Footage of the L.A. County Gift Card/Gun Exchange
Post date:That might be a little bit of good news: that despite all of the economic trouble we're in, the individual's need for butter will always trump their want for guns.