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Including Inglewood Airport Area • Baldwin Hills • Crenshaw/LA • Ladera Heights VOL. 25, No. 2
January 14, 2016
L.A. Rams: One of the Greatest Comeback Stories Ever By Thomas Bunn
1995
was a year that hundreds of thousands of Los Angeles football fans hate to remember. It was the year that both the LA Rams and LA Raiders were approved to relocate to St. Louis and Oakland, leaving some of their biggest fans throughout California devastated. They have been waiting desperately for over 20 years for their home teams, or any team for that matter, to return to the entertainment capital of the world. When the Rams and Raiders abandoned ship for St. Louis and Oakland, Inglewood was under the leadership of the late Ed Vincent, who became Inglewood’s first African American mayor. He would go on to serve a (Continued on page 2)
Inglewood Mayor James T. Butts
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Stan Kroenke and Head Coach Jeff Fisher
Ecstatic L.A. Rams fans
SOTU: Obama Defends Record, Calls for Unity
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ith a year left in his term, President Barack Obama spoke to the nation Tuesday night in his last State of the Union address. More somber than the Obama of 2008, and significantly grayer-haired, the president maintained his signature hope and optimism theme throughout, drawing a clear distinction between himself and Republican critics: “All the talk of America’s economic decline is political hot air,” he said. “So is all the rhetoric you hear about our enemies get(Continued on page 11)
By Veronica Mackey
President Obama giving his final State of the Union address.
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