And it should be noted that not all optimistic business plans work out in which case – one way or another – someone has to pay:[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTEpbIrYh-E&w=320&h=195]PS: 1959 – the date of this commercial – was the year the Faculty Center opened.
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For those who have been following the state budget/redevelopment drama on this blog that unfolded after yesterday’s California Supreme Court ruling seemingly abolishing redevelopment agencies, below is an update, courtesy of the California Planning and Development Report (excerpts). Our prior background posts are at: http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2011/12/state-budget-ruling-expected-today-on.html http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2011/12/be-careful-what-you-wish-for-seems-to.html Redevelopment Will Be Back — But At What Price? By Bill Fulton and Josh Stephens on 29 December 2011 The California Supreme Court killed redevelopment this morning, but that doesn’t mean it’s dead. At first glance it would seem as though redevelopment agencies have no bargaining power at all. After all, it’s hard to…
In an earlier post today, yours truly noted that the California Supreme Court was going to issue a ruling on redevelopment agencies that had potential consequences for the state budget. Please look at that post for background details. The opinion (with only one dissent) has now been posted. It may be that the redevelopment agencies will regret a) supporting Prop 22 which supposedly protected their funding and b) asking the Court to invalidate the compromise deal worked out in the legislature. The Court – based on a non-lawyer reading – seems to say that 1) the legislature had a right…
Photos said to document design by the UCLA Brain Research Institute of a space helmet in 1963.
From the San Jose Mercury-News: The California Supreme Court will issue a long-awaited ruling Thursday on the legality of the state’s move to grab $1.7 billion in redevelopment money to help close California’s budget shortfall — a move that rocked cities around the Bay Area and across the state. The ruling, expected at 10 a.m., should give critical guidance on two state laws: one that dissolves redevelopment agencies and redirects their property tax revenues to the state, and a second that allows agencies to stay afloat if they agree to relinquish a large portion of their funding, which will be…
Audio of the December 14 legislative hearing on the UC-Davis pepper spray incident may be heard at the link below. The excerpt edits out the testimony of a witness from CSU-Fresno. Earlier, the testimony of UC systemwide officials at the hearing was posted on this blog at http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2011/12/uc-excerpt-from-dec-14-legislative.html
From the LA Times: On Dec. 29, 2008, Sheharbano “Sheri” Sangji, 23, was severely burned over nearly half of her body when air-sensitive chemicals burst into flames during an experiment and ignited her clothing. Sangji, who was not wearing a protective lab coat, died 18 days later. Her death raised questions about lab safety practices at UCLA and about Sangji’s training and supervision by Professor Patrick Harran, a prominent researcher who joined the faculty in July 2008. On Tuesday, the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office charged Harran and the UC regents with three counts each of willfully violating occupational…
Proposition 13 of 1978 – the brainchild of Howard Jarvis (at right) and Paul Gann – drastically cut and limited local property taxes and imposed a two-thirds vote rule in the legislature for tax increases. Various court cases have challenged it over the years. However, UCLA’s former chancellor, Charles Young, is part of a lawsuit to overturn it on (state) constitutional grounds. Obviously, if that were to occur, it would have a major impact on fiscal affairs of state and local government in California. It would surely affect the UC budget. From Mother Jones: Back when Proposition 8 — the…
The Washington Post has looked west of late: UC-Berkeley and other ‘public Ivies’ in fiscal peril Daniel de Vise, Dec. 26, 2011, Washington Post Across the nation, a historic collapse in state funding for higher education threatens to diminish the stature of premier public universities and erode their mission as engines of upward social mobility. At the University of Virginia, state support has dwindled in two decades from 26 percent of the operating budget to 7 percent. At the University of Michigan, it has declined from 48 percent to 17 percent. Not even the nation’s finest public university is immune….
