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COMMUNITY VOICES: Don’t let what happened to my children happen to yours

By Amy Roost
Three children belonging to the same set of parents, with a combined total of four brain malformations that doctors say are unrelated. “The doctors are wrong,” says the mother, with the certainty born of maternal instinct.
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San Pedro High School student investigates neighborhood air pollution spewing from nearby refineries and freeways

By Sandy Mazza
Nick Serrano, a San Pedro High School senior, learned that his family’s Sunday afternoon barbecues create toxic pollution spikes outside his home based on data from a PurpleAir monitor installed there by Southern California News Group.

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