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California GOP divided on immigration enforcement | Los Angeles Times
Republicans in California have diverging opinions on President Trump’s immigration enforcement policies, according to a study published by the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute on Monday. The Trump administration has deployed a sweeping crackdown on immigration, launching ICE raids across the country and removing legal barriers in order to make deportations faster. The study found that while Democrats were largely consistent in their opposition to these immigration policies, Republican sentiment varied more, especially by age, gender and ethnicity.
Will LAX’s $1.5 billion project relieve traffic congestion? | Los Angeles Times
Jacob Wasserman, who manages research at the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies, warns the traffic nirvana won’t last. “Initially, these changes could alleviate traffic in the area and on the freeways to some degree, but it’s going to fill up again,” he said. “We all have Google Maps. When there’s less traffic, more cars will naturally file in and it’ll fill up. It’s going to move more people in total, but it’s not going to fix traffic.”
What’s the role of loneliness, schools in online teen gambling? | KQED-FM
Not everyone who studies gambling addiction believes that mandatory, school-based lessons focusing on prohibition are the best approach to preventing problem gambling. Timothy Fong, a psychiatrist and co-director of UCLA’s Gambling Studies Program, and who is passionate about studying all-things-gambling, told me that “addiction and loneliness feed off each other.”
Conversion therapy is quietly rebranding | San Francisco Chronicle
Roughly 3% of children 13 and under identify as transgender, compared to about 1% of all adults, according to the Williams Institute, a public policy center that studies gender and sexual identity at UCLA. That increase among young people identifying as trans, and a related increase in youths seeking medical treatment to transition, has led to growing criticism of the field that provides the care.
Astronomers find four stars ‘birthing’ a planet | Earth.com
“Typically, when astronomers see gaps like this in a debris disk, they suspect that a planet has cleared the path, noted Elise Furlan, who led the study from the University of California, Los Angeles. “However, given the presence of the diskless pair of stars sitting 50 AU away, the inward-migrating dust particles are likely subject to complex, time-varying forces, so at this point the existence of a planet is just speculation.”
Heavy rains pound region, forcing evacuations | New York Times
“The moisture will hit those mountains dead on,” said Park Williams, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles. “Those mountains act as a wall, and the water slides down the mountains and then it goes into the city.”
How did the city of South Gate open 3 new parks last year? | LAist
UCLA research has found that public-private partnerships are essential to the success of greening projects such as the Urban Orchard. “This really requires, as the proverbial saying goes, a village,” said UCLA professor Jon Christensen, who led that research and studies equitable access to green space. The Urban Orchard, he added, “is a real testament to the dedication and persistence and creativity that is required to build new parks in Los Angeles.”
How L.A. Metro quietly stopped enforcing fares | Los Angeles Daily News
(Commentary co-written by UCLA student Erica Solis) If you ride L.A. Metro, you’ve already seen the omnipresent signage and announcements telling you to be ready to present your TAP card for inspection. You may have also seen news or social media clips about Metro’s efforts to curb fare evasion. So you can imagine our shock when, this summer, we discovered that L.A. Metro quietly stopped enforcing fares years ago.
