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Katherine Gustafson: The Case of the Missing Agricultural Middle

The recent debate among food writers on the New York Times op ed page and Grist magazine highlighted a glaring problem, one that concerns not...

Mark Peters: What Do Hobbits, Agnostics, and Yahoos Have In Common? They're Famous Authors' Made Up Words

Words come from everywhere. TV shows are productive -- look at "Battlestar Galactica's" "frak," Stephen Colbert's "truthiness," and "30 Rock's" "blurgh." Wacky news events like...

Amy Wilkinson: Businesswomen Jumpstart 2010 Elections

Some have declared 2010 "The Year of the Woman" in politics. More apt, we should dub this year "The Year of the Businesswoman". Take a...

USC Out-Scrimmages Hawaii 49-36 in Season Opener

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DOJ Sues Sheriff Joe Arpaio for Claiming He’s the King of the World

Okay. You’re right. That’s not exactly how the unprecedented lawsuit filed on Thursday really reads. The legal action stems from the fact that Maricopa Sheriff Joe Arpaio metaphorically gave the US Justice Department the finger for 15 months in a row when his office was the subject of a civil rights probe for racial profiling [...]

WitnessLA.com

Billionaire Koch brothers back suspension of California climate law

A company owned by oil billionaires Charles and David Koch has contributed $1 million to Proposition 23, a November ballot initiative to suspend California’s groundbreaking 2006 global-warming law. The contribution came from Flint Hills Resources LP, based in Wichita, Kan.,...

Greenspace

Georgianne Nienaber: New Photos and Flyover of Mariner Platform

CREDIT: Copyright Jerry Moran 2010 www.nativeorleanian.com and www.OnWingsOfCare.org Pilot Bonny Schumaker of the California non-profit OnWingsofCare and New Orleans photographer Jerry Moran flew over...

The Huffington Post

Your weather forecast

Extended Forecast » More forecasts: Long Beach | Pasadena | San Diego | Santa Monica | Van Nuys

L.A. Now

eBooks Will Ruin Us All Don't You Know?

Another roundup of digital bookish links ranging from the mad to the sensible to the sublime: Borders to Sell Build-A-Bear Items as Readers Switch to E-Books - I'm still speechless. Just. Wow. iPad Newspapers Ripe for Innovation - Not entirely...

Counterbalance

Upland bank robbery suspects arrested in West Covina

Two men arrested by West Covina police on suspicion of an attempted car burglary in a Home Depot parking lot Wednesday have been linked to an Upland bank robbery from last month, officials said.Darryl Matthews, 29, and Lorenzo Carrillo, 28,...

Crime Scene

In a Disaster: Make a Connection

During National Preparedness Month, the Los Angeles Fire Department asks you to...

Choose an emergency contact person outside your area - because it may be easier to call long distance than

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LAFD News & Information

Ashton Kutcher angry over Star Magazine's 'defamation of character'

"STAR magazine - you don't get to stand behind "freedom of the press" when you are writing fiction."

The Dish Rag

Cartoonist Pete Emslie posing with Julie Newmar

I can't stop looking at this photo of talented cartoonist Pete Emslie posing with my favorite Catwoman, the beautiful Julie Newmar.

Pete Emslie at Fan Expo 2010

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WATCH: Stop8.org Dismantles NOM Arguments

Watch Matt Baume of Stop8.org do an excellent job of dismantling the arguments in a National Organization for Marriage (NOM) radio ad. Baume usess NOM's own words an explains how misleading, wrong and "catty" they are.

The Mad Professah Lectures

Owner of 1930s trunk with infant remains has a name

Kevin Roderick: LAPD detectives said today they are confident that Janet M. Barrie owned the trunk that contained the mummified remains of a fetus and possibly a newborn baby. Barrie, born in...

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L.A. Observed

Phineas Baxandall: In The Public Interest: More Jobs for the Same Money

With almost one in ten Americans currently unemployed, local governments have a special obligation to create jobs. To that end, they also have an obligation...

The Huffington Post

Ferry Service to Fire Island to Be Suspended Due to Hurricane Earl

NYCers on vacation for Labor Day weekend be advised. As Hurricane Earl approaches New York, ferry service to some parts of Fire Island has been suspended, Michael Lavers reports: "Fire Island Ferries will suspend service from Bay Shore at 3...

towleroad

Bill Lasarow: The Republican Party Today, Part 2: The Sucker Wing

Disagreement, for many of Glenn Beck's followers, adds up to a consistent conclusion: We are True Americans, and liberals, the "hate America crowd," are knowingly and deliberately working to destroy it.

The Huffington Post

Panhandlers seeking money to bury dead child called hoaxers, San Bernardino County sheriff's officials warn

Authorities in San Bernardino County warned residents Thursday to beware of panhandlers asking for donations to bury a dead child. County sheriff’s officials arrested a 19-year-old transient last weekend near the Ontario Mills mall in Rancho Cucamonga after she and...

L.A. Now

Romeo Beckham Laser Tagging Parents, Seal & Heidi Klum!

The Beckhams throw a birthday party for Romeo! ...read full story

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A Socialites Life

EPA proposes $69.2 million plan to contain 4.2-mile-long contaminated underground water plume from Whittier to Norwalk

From the Pasadena Star News: “The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a $69.2 million plan to contain a 4.2-mile-long contaminated underground water plume that stretches from Whittier to Norwalk. The water is contaminated with solvents from the former Omega Chemical Co. Superfund site, 12504 and 12512 Whittier Blvd., a hazardous waste recycling business that was open from [...]

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