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Democrats need to talk honestly about race. But can they? | Los Angeles Times Opinion
They should talk about ongoing de facto school segregation — are Californians aware that most Latino students in our state attend what the Civil Rights Project at UCLA calls “intensely segregated” schools? They should discuss the future of affirmative action, the persistent racial disparities in income and life expectancy, the fact that the population of homeless people across the nation is disproportionately black.
Nationwide transit ridership is plummeting: Can San Diego’s high-speed rail proposal buck the trend? | San Diego Union-Tribune
“Los Angeles is very much a cautionary tale,” said Michael Manville, a professor of urban planning at UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs. “You can’t take a region that is overwhelmingly designed to facilitate automobile travel and change the way people move around just by laying some rail tracks over it.”
Congress has long sought to bar foreign campaign contributions | Chicago Tribune
In 2017, legal experts lined up on both sides of whether trying to get that information from foreign governments was prosecutable even if counted as a “thing of value” for a campaign. Such a crime could result in candidates being barred from asking questions of foreigners, just because the answers might be especially important to voters, Eugene Volokh, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, wrote in The Washington Post at the time.
Francis Ford Coppola offers advice to budding filmmakers at the Lumière Festival | The Hollywood Reporter
The director recalled how he was obsessed with science as a child and wanted to be a nuclear physicist, but poor algebra grades eventually led him to study theatre at Hofstra. After seeing Sergei Eisenstein’s “October” — “It was silent, but I heard every cut” — he decided to pursue film at UCLA’s graduate school, where he crossed paths with rock legend Jim Morrison.
Progressives are all too willing to cut constitutional corners | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Opinion
UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh notes that in 1952 California voters used a progressive device, a referendum, to amend the state’s constitution to deny tax exemptions to certain people despised by the majority — people who advocated the unlawful overthrow of the U.S. government.
This is the November 12th Supreme Court case you need to know about | Out Magazine
While it is unknown how many LGBTQ+ people benefit from DACA, according to the Williams Institute at the University of California-Los Angeles School of Law, an estimated 75,000 of the 1.7 million people eligible for DACA this year identified as LGBTQ+. Of those, 36,000 received DACA status, the vast majority of which reside in California, Texas, Illinois, New York, and Florida.
Taxi workers protest LAX curbside pickup ban for cabs, ride-share companies | KABC-TV
Many cabbies insist the ban is just not fair. They want city leaders to intervene in the LAX decision and allow them to continue picking up passengers curbside. “According to the Department of Transportation, ride-hail vehicles now account for 25% of airport congestion. Taxis account for just 4.5%,” said Saba Waheed with the UCLA Labor Center.
Weight and health are mutually exclusive | Medium
Janet Tomiyama, an Associate Professor at UCLA had this to say on the topic of weight and health: “The focus on fat and on body size has done us a disservice. It’s thrown off the focus on actual health markers and has contributed to a stigma against the overweight. If you’re eating healthy, exercising and sleeping well, I don’t care how much fat you have.”
Meghan Markle said not many people have asked her if she’s OK. That’s exactly what new moms often need | Insider
“Your college roommate reminds you of more than just the spit up. Hearing from a friend who’s not judging, who’s not telling you what to do, and is just empathetic — that makes you feel normal,” Dr. Jenny Taitz, a psychologist and clinical instructor at UCLA’s Department of Psychiatry, previously told Insider. “It helps you manage your emotions.”
Latest PCCP fund reaches $1 billion | Los Angeles Business Journal
Eric Sussman, an adjunct professor at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, said the $1 billion fund is consistent with fundraising trends in the private equity real estate market. “There’s plenty of liquidity and strong interest in real estate right now,” Sussman said. “It is one of those places where you can still find some yield.”
Compton earthquake wasn’t big enough to trigger earthquake warning apps | NPR
“We haven’t really had the app do anything since it rolled out. It famously didn’t warn us for Ridgecrest because that was too far away. It didn’t pick up this one, and maybe people start to wonder if the app even works,” said UCLA’s Jonathan Stewart.
Can Uber and Lyft survive if California’s worker protections go nationwide? | Salon
Can Uber and Lyft survive a nationwide change in status and wages for their drivers? According to Saba Waheed, a research director at the UCLA Labor Center, it’s hard to say definitively one way or another. “What I can say is that the way the business model is currently structured is that it is very much based on drivers being independent contractors and not treating them as employees,” Waheed told Salon. “This business model was built on pretty exploitative conditions for drivers.”
Scientists spot signs of rusting iron on space rocks which point to worlds with the ingredients for life | Daily Mail (U.K.)
“All the chemistry that happens on the surface of the Earth can ultimately be traced back to the oxidation state of the planet,” said researcher Professor Edward Young. “The fact that we have oceans and all the ingredients necessary for life can be traced back to the planet being oxidized as it is. The rocks control the chemistry.”
Is there evidence of the ‘immigrant health paradox’ among Arab Americans? | Medical Xpress
Abuelezam and researchers Dr. Abdul M. El-Sayed of the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor and Dr. Sandro Galea of the Boston University School of Public Health used data from [UCLA’s] California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) to study health behaviors and health outcomes across three Arab American immigrant generations. The researchers were able to isolate a total of 1,425 individuals with Arabic heritage or Arabic language use, with 923 representing first generation Arab American immigrants, 413 representing second generation, and 89 in the third or fourth generation category.
