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Ex-L.A. Times. Old trees are my people.
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Parts of those areas — the San Gabriel Mountains front range especially — are littered with the ruins of attempts at human settlement and tourism. It’s a fool’s paradise.
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Don’t knock June gloom! It’s our only reliable season.
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Yep. I have a piece posting soon about the nation being primed for this, with all that’s been said over the years about LA, Portland, SF, Chicago, etc.
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You and me both. I feel this deep in my bones.
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This feels like the inflection point.
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My god. Bookmark these now for when people needlessly die.
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There’s a soullessness to urban transportation engineering that I’ve seen at hearings.