Before the 1970s, California offered free tuition at all public colleges. It enabled kids like me from struggling households to become the first in their families to attend college — even graduate, writes columnist George Skelton.
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Using contraband cellphones and women that he called his ‘wives,’ a California prisoner oversaw a sprawling drug ring that spread death and addiction to the most remote corners of Alaska, prosecutors say.
An L.A. Times/WeedWeek investigation finds alarming levels of pesticides in cannabis products at dispensaries across the state
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