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Who can afford a median priced home in Southern California these days? Well-off people, of course. In his OC Register blog on real estate, Jonathan Lansner notes that between 1999 and 2005, Orange County added 71,000 households with incomes of $100,000 or more - a 32 percent increase. Households making less than six figures fell by 36,000, or five percent. Separately, Lansner mentions that Citigroup analyst P.J. Juvekar is telling clients that paint-related companies are likely to take a hit because of softness in the real estate market.

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1:35 PM Sat | A front-page story in the L.A. Times on the opening of KPCC's new studios in Pasadena says that next up for the NPR station is "a major expansion that its board of trustees hopes will make KPCC the hub of a regional constellation of public radio stations and a major source of news and information in Southern California."
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