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Term limits, Willie Brown, and the hobbling of California government
From a one-page handout on “herbal abortion” distributed as part of a sex-education class last spring to students, some as young as fourteen, at the Cazadero Academy, a private high…
In Los Angeles, car washing gets beneath the surface
The aerospace industry is dying, and with it a way of life
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