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All aboard America’s first hydrogen-powered train
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Another sales tax for homeless services: LA voters to decide
Election 2024Measure A – on LA County ballots this November – asks voters whether or not to approve a sales tax hike to fund homeless services and affordable housing.
Measure G would remake LA County government
PoliticsA ballot initiative would expand the number of LA County supervisors and create a new executive job, in the biggest change to local governance in generations.
Keeping the music playing at LA’s indie venues
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The Oral History of Star Magazine
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Rock'n'roll groupies of the 1970s got in with bands, but could they make careers in music?
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Japanese American internment camp site plays ball
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Led Zeppelin made the Sunset Strip - and groupie scene - home.
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