“I never knew I lived in an oil town until I went looking for the concealed infrastructure of fossil fuel production.”
California
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Rebuilding the Maze
“After a crucial section of a California freeway collapsed, this formidable construction boss pulled off one of the fastest, riskiest, most high-stakes reconstructions in U.S. history.”
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The Case of the Missing Chacmools
“Geoffrey Gray investigates the writer’s bizarre cult and finds himself entangled in a web of murky financial dealings, sex, possible foul play—and one death-defying supernatural being.”
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Lessons From a Mass Shooter’s Mother
“A decade after her son committed a massacre, Chin Rodger is on a quest to help prevent the next tragedy.”
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An Ambulance, An Empty Lot and a Loophole: One Man’s Fight for a Place to Live
“He sees himself as many Angelenos do: in the gray area between homeless and homeowner.”
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Feds Say He Masterminded an Epic California Water Heist. Some Farmers Say He’s Their Robin Hood.
“The suspicious setup was on land that was part of the Panoche Water District, which for decades had been run by an outsize character named Dennis Falaschi.”
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Care, Out of the Closet
“LGBTQ elders face discrimination in underfunded nursing homes.”
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‘Badass Detective’: How One California Officer Solved Eight Cold Cases—in His Spare Time
“When he got on a case, Matt was like a dog with a bone. He was not giving up.”
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San Francisco’s 24-Hour Diner Stops the Cosmic Clock
“. . .but then there it is: a strikingly red building, a flash of weathered neon, an improbable promise issued since 1970. We Never Close.”
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In Harm’s Way
“How decades-old decisions to build two California prisons in a dry lakebed and a chaotic climate left 8,000 incarcerated people at risk.”