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Weekend chaos at LAX over Trump bans
Kevin Roderick
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January 30, 2017 8:56 AM
Trump's orders to block refugees and travelers from Muslim countries - even U.S. legal residents - caught Homeland Security by surprise. Protesters and lawyers flooded the airport.
FAA agrees to 2028 close of Santa Monica Airport
Kevin Roderick
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January 29, 2017 8:47 PM
Hard to imagine a bigger change to the infrastructure and environment of the Westside.
P-51 found dead on freeway where mother and other cub died
Kevin Roderick
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January 27, 2017 1:23 PM
The mother P-39 and both cubs died on the 118 in Santa Susana Pass since Dec. 3.
LA Observed Notes: Xavier Becerra, water everywhere and more
Kevin Roderick
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January 24, 2017 1:37 AM
Our occasional roundup on media, politics and place from multiple sources.
The Mighty Los Angeles (River) was roaring on Sunday
Kevin Roderick
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January 22, 2017 10:05 PM
Two views of the river: Sunday's rain-swollen racetrack and the big concrete ditch we usually see.
Massive DTLA crowd joins millions in Saturday marches for women
Kevin Roderick
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January 21, 2017 11:50 PM
A few hundred thousand people on the streets all day and no arrests of any kind. Lots of great signs though.
LA Times staff warned not to join women's marches
Kevin Roderick
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January 19, 2017 1:08 PM
It's against "long-standing ethics guidelines" to participate, the managing editor's memo reminds the journalists.
'Profitable' LA Weekly put up for sale
Kevin Roderick
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January 18, 2017 1:07 PM
The owners are slowly selling off their alt weeklies and predict the LA Weekly will generate buyer interest.
Where in LA Kristen Stewart drives in 'Ride Em on Down' video
Kevin Roderick
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January 17, 2017 1:40 AM
Every location, in order, researched by reader Don Bentley and his brother.
LA Observed Notes: Last days of the pre-Trump era
Kevin Roderick
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January 17, 2017 1:29 AM
Media, books, politics and place and a few tweets.
LAX as you have never seen it
Kevin Roderick
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January 16, 2017 8:32 PM
The mega airport is such a vital and vulnerable piece of our infrastructure that it employs two anti-terrorism experts with top-secret clearances.
Kevin Starr, 76, the historian of California
Kevin Roderick
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January 15, 2017 9:54 PM
The top contender for the title of preeminent observer of our state "chronicled the history of California as no one else," Gov. Jerry Brown said.
KPCC's 'Take Two' is now minus one
Kevin Roderick
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January 12, 2017 9:11 AM
The morning show loses a host -- Alex Cohen -- and an hour of air time each day.
LA Observed Notes: Streep, Globes, media moves and politics
Kevin Roderick
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January 9, 2017 1:20 AM
Our occasional roundup on media, politics and place from a variety of LA Observed sources.
Lynne Westmore Bloom, 81, painted the Pink Lady of Malibu Canyon
Kevin Roderick
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January 7, 2017 6:40 PM
As Lynne Seemayer, she created an indelible part of LA street art lore and became something of a legend.
Photographer dies in Port of LA copter crash
Kevin Roderick
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January 5, 2017 10:19 PM
Michael Justice, who shot for the Wall Street Journal, Daily Breeze and LA Herald Examiner, was on assignment for the port in San Pedro.
Cub P-52 killed on same freeway as mother lion
Kevin Roderick
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January 5, 2017 6:50 PM
The male puma cub was struck on the 118 Freeway, which claimed P-39 last month.
Time for some weather geeking
Kevin Roderick
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January 4, 2017 11:25 PM
A line of storms is coming toward California — just like they used to before the drought.
Mid-week media notes: Reporters take new jobs and more
Kevin Roderick
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January 4, 2017 10:45 PM
Giving up journalism. A new managing editor. A film reporter and more in our occasional roundup.
Night news photog saves man from fiery crash
Kevin Roderick
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January 2, 2017 11:25 PM
Austin Raishbrook, an owner of RMG News, put down his camera and saved a life on the freeway.
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Clinton fundraises in LA
Jim Henson Studios on La Brea became a
presidential campaign stop
on Thursday.
Brown declares disaster area
The natural gas leak above Porter Ranch now qualifies for various government actions.
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Wet coyote
Spotted between the storms at
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Performing arts with cheer
Donna Perlmutter
closes out 2015
with productions downtown and on the Westside.
Junkyard down
After 53 years, Sun Valley's Aadlen Brothers and U-Pick Parts cleans out.
Photos