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Here's a group of Orthodox Jews blessing the sun this morning at La Brea and Oakwood. Why are they standing there?

       

This January has brought us skies made clear and hot summer-like temperatures thanks to the onslaught of Santa Ana winds passing through, as well as moody, cloudy, rainy days where all hell breaks loose on the freeways and many of us retreat indoors and hide under the covers. But each and every day the sun rises over our city no matter the weather, and these photos of January sunrises from our LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr tell the story of our varied--and often beautiful--early morning skies. So in case you slept in this morning, or the last few mornings, take a look at dawn's early light as seen here in L.A.

                            

Dear Gothamist and Chicagoist,

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and others are unveiling Solar LA, a plan that they say "will deliver 10% of the City's energy needs through solar power by 2020 and will jumpstart the green economy in Los Angeles by creating a local solar industry." The plan, to be announced later this morning at Solar Integrated Technologies in South LA, will be the "largest solar energy plan in the country." It's just a plan now, but can they do it?