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Downtown Los Angeles Is America’s Next Great City (GQ) Report Calls L.A. a City in Decline (LAT) LA Sues to Stop Allenco Oil from Re-Opening in South Park (LAT) Just How Screwed Are We When the Sea Levels Rise? (Curbed) Brown’s Proposed Cap-and-Trade Funding Plan for CAHSR Leaked (SFGate, LAT) Just Because Baca’s Gone Doesn’t … Continued

By Damien Newton

9:45 AM PST on January 8, 2014

Downtown Los Angeles Is America’s Next Great City (GQ)
Report Calls L.A. a City in Decline (LAT)
LA Sues to Stop Allenco Oil from Re-Opening in South Park (LAT)
Just How Screwed Are We When the Sea Levels Rise? (Curbed)
Brown’s Proposed Cap-and-Trade Funding Plan for CAHSR Leaked (SFGate, LAT)
Just Because Baca’s Gone Doesn’t Mean LASD Is Fixed (Daily News)
Drunk Driver Runs from Cops, Eventually Caught in Woodland Hills (Daily News)
Judge Weighs Whether or Not Venice Boardwalk Crash Is Murder (LAT)
Thanks to the Internet, You Can See Yasiel Puig’s Arrest Video (LAist)

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