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Why We Must Stand With Major Jason Watson

By Jeffrey Sterling For almost two months, an Air Force officer has been sitting alone in a cell, twenty-four hours…

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Calls Grow For Justice For Ricardo Gonzalez: Representatives Barragán and Garcia Join Senators In Demand For Immediate Investigation

Two Harbor Area representatives and California’s two US senators have formally joined the call for ICE/DHS accountability in the brutal…

7 days ago

Six Months, Fewer Lanes and Trucks Next Door: Harbor Gateway Needs a Safety Plan

By Rick Thomas, Columnist Western Avenue is about to get squeezed, and Harbor Gateway South residents deserve to know whether…

1 week ago

No Kings Early Vote Pits People Power Against Trump, Billionaires, and Big Tech

By Paul Rosenberg, Senior Editor October 17 saw a demonstration like no other in American history—but not so strange in…

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Taxing Billionaires To Fund Healthcare And Restore (Some) Fairness

  Proposition 40—the billionaire tax—has a dual character: what it is and what it symbolizes. What it is, on the…

2 weeks ago

Charter Reform 2.0: McOsker Heads Committee Writing Next Chapter

The saga of Los Angeles Charter reform began a new chapter on Sept. 30, with the first meeting of the…

2 weeks ago

The Scariest Halloween Is Always Before A November Election

For the past 10 years, the scariest Halloween has arrived every other year, and the one we’ve feared the most…

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The Renaissance of Mata Ortiz: How a Piece of Pottery Saved  the town of  Mata Ortiz in Chihuahua, Mexico

Spencer MacCallum was a slender, well-educated  man who, for reasons I was never quite sure of, ended up in San…

2 weeks ago

Hundreds Attend AltaSea’s Blue Hour Celebration

   ~ Editors note: an earlier version of this story read: Attendees contributed more than $50,000 to support AltaSea’s Ocean…

2 weeks ago

The Wonderful World of French Butter

  By Lynn Nishimura, Columnist  My previous article was about French cheese. But did you know how many  different things…

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