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With the exception of Burbank, Glendale, the city of San Fernando, Calabasas, and Hidden Hills, most of the San Fernando Valley is within the city limits of Los Angeles. Locals refer to it simply as "the Valley".
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In 2002, Los Angeles residents defeated a proposal under which the San Fernando Valley portion of the City of Los Angeles would have seceded and become an independent incorporated city of its own. Had the proposal passed, it would have created a new municipality of 211 square miles (546 km²) with about 1.3 million residents. The new Valley City would have been the sixth most populous city in the U.S., just ahead of Phoenix. Los Angeles would have become the third largest city in the nation, behind New York City and Chicago.
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Kevin Roderick came to the subject of the San Fernando Valley both as a curious journalist and as a product himself of the suburbs. He grew up in Northridge, roaming the tracts of newly minted neighborhoods that came into being in the 1950s and 1960s. After attending James Monroe High School and studying the craft of journalism at California State University, Northridge, he went to work for the Los Angeles Times as a cub reporter covering the Valley. His career path steered him into other reporting endeavors and the newspaper’s senior editor ranks, but the untold stories of the Valley always beckoned. Roderick is currently the Los Angeles bureau chief for The Industry Standard magazine and lives in Santa Monica, Calif.
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In the missions near Los Angeles (San Juan Capistrano, San Gabriel, and San Fernando), the Spaniards planted olives, citrus fruits, and wine grapes. They raised cattle, horses, and sheep. In 1851 the Mormons founded San Bernardino in the nearby mountains, where wheat was planted and grapes raised.
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These results mean that the first week of the port shutdown has cost the San Fernando Valley, San Diego and the San Gabriel Valley more than quarter billion dollars. LAEDC announced yesterday (Friday) that Orange County is ... losing about a $125 million dollars each week. That's a half a billion dollars a month for Orange County and a painful billion plus dollars a month for the other three other communities announced today. The study was commissioned by The Orange North-American Trade Rail Access Corridor (OnTrac) Authority as a part of the agencies Environmental Impact Report (EIR) and will be used to help clarify the economic impacts of the OnTrac Corridor on the nation's economy.
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Several of CRC's 247 nonprofit and public agency members surveyed payday lending establishments in San Francisco, Sacramento, Los Angeles, San Diego, Oakland, Oceanside, National City and the San Fernando Valley. CRC members and allies posed as potential first-time customers and recorded exactly what they were told by payday loan clerks and noted what was posted in the establishment. What they found was alarming:
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