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from LAist: The annual Improv Everywhere event is spreading across the nation including Los Angeles on the afternoon of January 10th. "
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from Mashable.com: The Governator has apparently had enough, and is turning to social media to urge constituents of the nation's most populus state to pressure their lawmakers in the state legislature.
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from the NYTimes: "California officials estimate that there are tens of thousands of abandoned pools in the state, with as many as 5,000 in places like Sacramento County, where a building boom in the capital's suburbs has gone bust."
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from Slate Magazine: A review of Smogtown: The Lung-Burning History of Pollution in Los Angeles, journalists Chip Jacobs and William J. Kelly. [h/t LAGreenGirl]
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from voiceofsandiego.org: Nearly 30 percent of homes in San Diego County with a mortgage are worth less than their owners owe on their mortgage, according to new data.
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The Bus Bench: "Some people say that they can drive faster than the Gold Line, well this video calls you a storyteller. You'd think the marketing executives at Metro would have come up what this, but of course they all have cars."
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from photographer Thomas Hawk's blog: "They asked us not to shoot the refinery and suggested that it was a "double standard" that we'd insist on our constitutional rights to shoot in public while not honoring BP's request that we not shoot their facility from a public sidewalk." [h/t Lalawag.com]
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from Blogdowntown: On December 30, 1882, at roughly 7:40pm, Mayor Homer Toberman threw the switch to send current to the first two arc lights installed by the Los Angeles Electric Company.
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from the Los Angeles Times: "Reiterating her call for more air traffic controllers, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) on Monday warned President-elect Barack Obama's nominee for Transportation secretary that chronic staff shortages at Los Angeles International Airport and the main radar facility that guides aircraft between airports pose an "alarming risk" to aviation safety in Southern California."
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from LAist: "Police across the region are telling people not to shoot guns into the air on New Year's Eve."
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