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January 01, 1990 - January 24, 2013 + LA Observed
Looking Ahead 
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Welcome to the new news year. When the calendar turns, convention calls for being upbeat about the unknown opportunities the future may hold...
Looking Back at 2008
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/lo/lo081226looking_back_at_2008
Those of you who hear me in this spot through the year probably realize that I occasionally take the chance go back and close the...
Jane Usher
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/lo/lo081219jane_usher
This has been a rich week where my inner news junkie has several candidates for the title of favorite story...
Saving the News
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Anyone in L.A. who thinks thriving, independent fearless news reporting is important has to be feeling pretty grim this week. While attention has been focused...
Carleton Watkins
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/lo/lo081205carleton_watkins
I beg your pardon for using two consecutive weeks of LA Observed to talk, a least loosely, about art in Los Angeles. Last week it...
Saving MOCA
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/lo/lo081128saving_moca
There's a real civic sadness looming in the reports that LA's Museum of Contemporary Art is reeling in financial trouble. If MOCA were to disappear...
LA's Era in DC
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Because Los Angeles is a city that mainly elects Democrats, the Bush years have not been especially good ones for LA's clout. But with the...
Prop 8 Aftermath
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We -– and by that I mean all of us in California -- have had a week and a half to absorb all that changed...
Obamamania
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The lobby of the Century Plaza Hotel is usually a pretty quiet place. Sedate comes to mind. You could fall asleep there and probably nothing...
No Endoresments Here
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So – finally -- it's almost over. The longest, most expensive and in
many ways ugliest political campaign season most of us have ever seen. I'm...
History Lives On
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/lo/lo081024history_lives_on
So Angelina Jolie is in a new Clint Eastwood movie about a Los Angeles
historical episode. I can already hear the cynicism dripping all over
town...
Digital Billboards
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/lo/lo081017digital_billboards
Just when we have nearly conquered the plague of television commercials thanks to Tivo and the web, we now have giant commercials staring us in...
Natural History
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As a lifelong Angeleno, and someone who appreciates the natural history
of L.A., I must confess that I enjoy it when something in the news
reminds us...
Text Messages
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/lo/lo081003text_messages
It's been three weeks now since the disastrous train collision in Chatsworth that killed 24 passengers and the engineer who was driving the Metrolink train....
Playoff Fever
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You don't have to be much of a sports fan to appreciate the story possibilities that are out there as a result of both local...
