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Restaurants throughout LA faced serious consequences from the pandemic shutdown.

Quarantine shutdowns hit Chinatown and SGV restaurants hard. Can they survive past the pandemic?

Restaurants throughout LA faced serious consequences from the pandemic shutdown.

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Longtime businesses in Little Tokyo are facing gentrification. They worry they’ll be priced out as downtown has revitalized, and rents are going up.

Can the Japanese community save Little Tokyo from gentrification?

Longtime businesses in Little Tokyo are facing gentrification. They worry they’ll be priced out as downtown has revitalized, and rents are going up.

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For decades, a large area of land west of LA was the testing ground for space exploration, spilling toxic pollutants that still haven’t gotten cleaned up.

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Proposition 16 would overturn California's ban on affirmative action. Proposition 15 would raise taxes on some commercial properties.

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The Census count ends midnight Hawaii time. The Supreme Court earlier this week allowed the Trump administration to cut the Census count by about two weeks.

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During the pandemic, the co-owners of downtown LA’s The Last Bookstore nearly ran out of money, laid off most of their staff, and closed their store.

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In California, more than 4.5 million voters have already returned their mail-in ballots. Over a third of those ballots are from voters ages 65 and up. According to Dr.

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Followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory are targeting incumbent lawmakers with vicious online attacks and death threats.

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We live in a two-party system, but sometimes it takes a nudge from the margins to get things done.

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