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Can CA’s most notorious prison become modern rehab center?
TransportationGov. Newsom announced plans to transform San Quentin into a Norwegian-style restorative environment.
LA’s Homeboy Threads: Recycling clothes, creating jobs
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Is the media caving to temptation in giving Trump so much airtime?
PoliticsDonald Trump was arraigned this week on 34 counts of falsifying business records. Russia arrests an American journalist. And Finland is deemed the happiest country on earth.
¿Tenías beneficios durante la pandemia? ¿Ahora que?
Food & DrinkMillones de californianos perdieron los beneficios de alimentos de la era COVID a finales de marzo. ¿Eres uno de ellos? ¿Cómo te va con menos dinero para comestibles?
Catalytic converter thefts: Car owners, cops, insurance adjusters try keeping up
TransportationCatalytic converter thefts more than tripled in LA County last year, and some victims are replacing the $3,000 car part just to have it stolen again.
Can growing weed indoors be more environmentally-friendly?
CannabisLos Angeles is the epicenter of indoor cannabis cultivation in Southern California, but how intensive is it on our environment, and is there a better way?
‘Gone to the Wolves’ brings LA’s 1980s metal scene back to life
Business & EconomyIn John Wray’s new novel “Gone to the Wolves,” the characters travel from Florida swamps to the 1980s Sunset Strip to Norway –– all in the name of metal.
Interpreting for the U.S. Army of the Deaf
NationalRobert Ham’s new film, Interpreters Wanted, sheds light on one of the most dangerous and underappreciated positions in the wars on terror.