[Downtown Long Beach, 3rd best downtown in California via flickr user TerryP]
· Avert your eyes. It's the ugly part of the Valley [Here in Van Nuys]
· State of the market? Eh, not so good [housingbubbleblog]
· Spreading the homeless around as a solution [LA CityBeat]
· Garden Grovers mobilize for/against 2-story Wal-Mart [OC Register]
· LA has 4th best downtown in CA, after Long Beach [CP&DR]