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Opinion: Postcards from the recession: What do you think?

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Riverside resident Susan Straight says losing the ‘community on my street, the street I’ve lived on for 22 years, breaks my heart.’ She shares tales of metal thieves, homes going vacant and more symptoms of the recession’s disproportionate toll on the Inland Empire. South L.A. resident Toni Ann Johnson tells a more upbeat story. She says the last thing she expected to get from her move to Morningside Circle was a lesson in financial planning -- and she got exactly that.

More writers will offer their on-the-ground reports of the recession’s toll on their neighborhoods on our Op-Ed pages this week and occasionally in the future (click here for the complete series). But our writers aren’t the only ones with tales of the economic downturn’s drastic effects on their neighborhoods. Click on the ‘Comments’ link below to post your own thoughts about the recession.

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