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Josh Cain is filling in for Studio City Local Editor Mike Szymanski, who is taking a much-deserved vacation.

<strong>Bio</strong>

I have spent most of my life in North Orange County, growing up in Anaheim and Brea. When I was 13 years old I knew I wanted to become a writer. Once I found out I could combine my love for writing with my passion for sports—I root for the Lakers, Angels and USC football—I never looked back.

Though I&#39;ll always call Orange County home, growing up in what amounts to one big suburb made me want to get as far away as possible for college. I spent three-and-a-half years at Boston University earning a degree in journalism in between covering sports and news for The Daily Free Press, the school&#39;s independent newspaper. There, I worked as managing editor and editor-in-chief in my junior year, covered the governor&#39;s race and tumultuous Boston city council meetings, and occasionally slept.

<strong>Politics</strong>

I was raised in a household where my mother was a hard-core liberal and my father liked to call himself a Libertarian. Once I finally got to register with a party when I turned 18, my parents&#39; political leanings made the decision easy for me: to annoy both of them, I registered Independent.

That turned out to be a mistake, however, considering I accidentally registered with the American Independent Party, rather than choosing &#34;Decline to State.&#34; Four years and dozens of Sodom-and-Gomorrah-inspired campaign pamphlets I received in the mail later, I&#39;ve now given up pretending that my political decisions don&#39;t trend toward the left side of the spectrum. However, I still pride myself on looking at what all sides have to offer.

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