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Irvine city leaders are cracking down on college students who board up with multiple roommates to afford steep rent prices, to the support of city homeowners concerned with neighborhood character and objection of college students who argue this will force many of them into homelessness.
While crime rates are spiking countrywide, they are going the opposite direction in Huntington Beach’s historically underserved Oak View neighborhood. The Oak View Renewal Partnership deserves much of the credit.
Dr. Elizabeth Cauffman talks about how a lack of research into adolescent crime has led to bad policies and misconceptions about why young people offend.
Lawyers are likely to argue that engineering professor Tatsuya Suda cannot be prosecuted for taking illegal payments because the UC system is a sovereign entity.
Mexican-Americans suffer from high rates of type 2 diabetes, but
the reasons are environmental, not genetic.
First Amendment watchdog Californians Aware issued failing
grades to both UC Irvine and Cal State Fullerton in a test of their
responsiveness to the California Public Records Act. Two local K-12
school districts were also given failing grades.
Eco-friendly lights contain lead and other contaminants, study
finds.
Landmark UCI study shows semiarid regions getting drier and wet
areas wetter.
The Anaheim City Council this week approved plans for an
expensive new train terminal that can’t handle high-speed rail.
A coalition of civil rights groups and bar associations have come out against the school’s decision to suspend the Muslim Student Union from operating on the UC Irvine campus.