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July 6, 2008
As a subscriber to the LA Times, Gary Dretzka writes he is "certainly not looking forward to a decimated product. Previous trims in coverage...have not gone unnoticed, so why should we tolerate less?"
Media Channel's Danny Schechter fact checks the post about him and his credit crunch piece in CityBeat.
July 3, 2008
One longtime Los Angeles news junkie gives up her Times subscription, sad and disappointed about changes she has seen happening.
Jesus. I live in this town. I write about this town. I need the LA Times
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How is it that until about a week ago I'd never heard of the surrealist photographer Francesca Woodman? We even went to the same school.
Phil Wallace / Feeling regret?
Seventeen years after the Rams and Raiders left town, neither team is better off. Now both are threatening to move back.
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Sometimes you just have to raise your outdoor voice.
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After 22 years of loyalty, Baylor is unceremoniously shown the door.
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Parents have won partial restoration of federal poverty funds for 23 schools in the San Fernando Valley and the Westside. Many of the schools are in middle class neighborhoods but have substantial numbers of poor students.
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Elvis on the Avenue.
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