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FOO (Friend of Off-Ramp) Michael Sigman working to connect you and me in new community building project

6:00 a.m.|John Rabe|John Rabe|0 comments

I got an e-mail from my friend Michael Sigman, the former LA Weekly Publisher, announcing he’s starting a series blogs on a "Creating Community In Los Angeles" project he’s working on in conjunction with HuffPost. “Alienation and rootlessness are so deeply ingrained in Angelenos' psyches -- partly because so many ...

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The Director of ''Precious,'' and the Blue Cross Blues

Feb. 8, 2010|Patt Morrison|Patt Morrison|0 comments

Boy, you burned up the phone lines about Anthem Blue Cross' notice of big premium hikes in California -- and we didn't keep you waiting on hold nearly as long as insurance company toll-free numbers! Even the Obama Administration, in the person of HHS secretary Kathleen Sebelius, is concerned about ...

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Snowpocalypse intermezzo

Feb. 8, 2010|Kitty Felde|Kitty Felde|0 comments

The snow stopped falling Saturday night. Sunday was stunning - bright, white light reflecting off of snow higher than your knees. Tree branches snapped off all over the neighborhood from the weight of the wet snow. It's beautiful. I shoveled snow for the first time. Although we couldn't find the ...

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Packing up 27 years of great memories

Feb. 8, 2010|Larry Mantle|Larry Mantle|0 comments

With our upcoming move to the new SCPR/Mohn Broadcast Center in southwest Pasadena I'm packing up 27 years worth of books, files, and mementos of my years at KPCC. We're just days away from the move and I'm being constantly reminded of some of my favorite interviews. There was Steve ...

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Activists develop computer games as a fun way to inform the public

Feb. 5, 2010|Marla Schevker|Without A Net|1 comment

As a person who grew up with video games, I still enjoy games where I take on a persona and go around fighting evil, whatever it might be. I played Super Mario, for the N64, until I actually broke my game console and my dad had to fix it (which, ...

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POLA re-ups with Gephardt group on F4A issues

Feb. 2, 2010|Molly Peterson|Molly Peterson|0 comments

It happened last week instead of one night, but...the Port of Los Angeles has, for the fourth time, renewed its relationship with a lobbying firm helping it out on Capitol Hill. In doing so it puts a very interesting problem in the lap of LA's new deputy mayor, Austin Beutner. ...

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