Ryan McDonald

Covers Hermosa Beach for a local news outlet called Easy Reader News.

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Covers Hermosa Beach for a local news outlet called Easy Reader News.

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Communities along the Southern California coast generally do not use the sea as a transportation route. Why not? And might that change?

Could the fourth border be a ferry route?

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