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Category Archives: Los Angeles
LAT: It’s official: Latinos now outnumber whites in California
Los Angeles Times: The demographic shift has been a long time coming. In 1970, the 2.4 million Latinos in California accounted for 12% of the population, while the 15.5 million whites in the state made up more than three-quarters of … Continue reading
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Noise In Los Angeles Neighborhoods Correlates Strongly With Race
According to Howloud.net, 90035 is relatively quiet: Soundscore™: 72 Light Vehicle noise: Light Airport noise: Quiet No airport within 6 mi. Local Commercial Noise: Heavy Local noise sources: BEST & FAST AUTOMOTIVE SHELL LIVONIA GLATT MARKET Noise in Los Angeles … Continue reading
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The Big One Next Week?
Shirley MacLaine told a friend of a friend that the big earthquake is going to hit Los Angeles next week.
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Bad Students, Not Bad Schools
VDARE: One of those stories where you have to laugh to keep from crying. The Hispanic-dominated Los Angeles Unified School District Board has decided it is better to let failing students graduate with D grades rather than deny them a … Continue reading
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California Is Looking More Like Mexico Every Day
I fell in love with LA in 1982 when MTV came out and most of the music videos, it seemed, were shot in LA and filled with hot chicks. Now I go to the beach and it is mainly short … Continue reading
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LAT: Aide to Kamala Harris, 2 others accused of running rogue police force
Story: An aide to state Atty. Gen. Kamala D. Harris and two others are accused of operating a rogue police force that claimed to exist for more than 3,000 years and have jurisdiction in 33 states and Mexico, authorities said … Continue reading
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It’s Important To Invest In The Coming Latino Majority
The Los Angeles Daily News reports Mar. 31, 2015: While their growth has slowed in recent decades, Latinos will likely be the majority in Los Angeles County by 2020, experts say. And since 2001, more than 60 percent of babies … Continue reading
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When The Israelites Were Strong In The Land
In this morning’s daf yomi (page of Talmud), I learned there’s a Mishna that when a woman is taken captive during a time that the hand of Israel is strong in the land, she is not presumed to be raped, … Continue reading
Walkability
Steve Sailer writes: Houston is extremely flat, but has a lot of big trees, an impressive skyline, nice clouds, and fine sunsets. San Francisco is obviously unique, but Houston outpointed Los Angeles in the late 1970s on trees, skyline, clouds, … Continue reading
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Is Judaism The Reason Jews Are Creative?
In his second lecture on the history of Orthodox Jews in Los Angeles, Rabbi Shlomo Einhorn says: “Los Angeles is being shaped by people running from orthodoxy, fighting over their orthodoxy, hiding their orthodoxy, being creative because of their Judaism, … Continue reading
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