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L.A. takes hit from rising costs, fire trauma, ICE | LAist 89.3-FM’s “AirTalk”
Cost of living, fire recovery and concerns over deportations are all big players in this year’s UCLA Quality of Life Index report, released this week. It’s the tenth annual survey conducted by the Los Angeles Initiative at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. (UCLA’s Zev Yaroslavsky was interviewed.)
THC levels have quadrupled since the 1990s | Axios
Today, “it’s very difficult to find cannabis that’s less than 20% THC” in a Los Angeles dispensary, says Ziva Cooper, director of the UCLA Center for Cannabis and Cannabinoids.
Panel explores birthright citizenship | Southern California News Group
Law professor Hiroshi Motomura, co-director of the Center for Immigration Law and Policy at UCLA Law, was confident the order would be struck down. “We’re reinterpreting the 14th Amendment, and that’s not limited by time,” said Motomura. “If this survives the Supreme Court, then many of us are not citizens … since this just goes back and undoes (a century) of history.”
War on the Palestine movement is something entirely new | The Nation
(Commentary by UCLA’s Saree Makdisi) As people across the nation look on, aghast, at the footage of vulnerable students of color being abducted in broad daylight by the masked gunmen of ICE, it’s important to acknowledge the unprecedented nature of what we’re living through.
