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Legal-weed businesses must first obtain approval from local authorities, helps to make legal weed much more expensive than illegal weed Photo: Illegal cannabis growers and sellers are not subject to many of the costly regulations that legal purveyors are. Above, an illegal grow operation in the Antelope Valley. (Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department) 22 May…
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Photo: Los Lobos, from left, is Cesar Rosas, Louie PĂ©rez, David Hidalgo, Conrad Lozano and Steve Berlin.(Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) Los Lobos nearly called it quits last year. Lucky for music-lovers everywhere, they made an album of covers instead 29 July 2021 | RANDALL ROBERTS | Los Angeles Times Cesar Rosas had…
19 May 2021 |  CHARLES MCNULTY | Los Angeles Times Column: Anti-vaxxers don’t deserve coddling. Why theaters should require proof of vaccination For a good percentage of those millions of Americans still resistant to getting a COVID-19 vaccine, no amount of information will make a difference. Grumble as we might at this recalcitrant stance, bodily autonomy…
Bettmann/Getty Images 02 May 2021 | James Porteous | Clipper Media Zoot Suit Riots SEP 15, 2020 ORIGINAL:SEP 27, 2017 History.com (original link) The Zoot Suit Riots were a series of violent clashes during which mobs of U.S. servicemen, off-duty police officers and civilians brawled with young Latinos and other minorities in Los Angeles. The…
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18 March 2021 | Â RYAN FAUGHNDER | Los Angeles Times | Original link Movie and TV studio Warner Bros. has backed away from a proposal to build an aerial tramway to improve access to the Hollywood sign, the company said Thursday. Warner Bros. in 2018 told Los Angeles city officials it would fund an aerial…
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