Carefree children play and roll around in dirt at parks throughout the Los Angeles area every day, unaware of the potential dangers in the park’s soil. Read more...
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News, Westwood
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March 8, 11:12 pm
Verizon negotiating to add cell signal boosters around Westwood
Verizon Wireless may install cellphone signal booster systems on existing street poles in Westwood Village. Verizon originally planned to install five new 33-foot poles that would improve mobile coverage throughout the village, but the Westwood Neighborhood Council and the Westwood Community Design Review Board unanimously voted against Verizon’s proposals Jan. Read more...
Campus, News
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March 8, 9:18 pm
Gene Block forms council on immigration to discuss Trump’s impact
A new UCLA council will advise the chancellor on how to help the immigrant community on campus, Chancellor Gene Block announced Wednesday. Officials created the Chancellor’s Advisory Council on Immigration in response to President Donald Trump’s administration’s immigration ban revision, Block said in an email to students and faculty. Read more...
Photo: Chancellor Gene Block announced a new Advisory Council on Immigration in an email Wednesday, which would work to advise him on ways to better help UCLA’s immigrant community. (Frank To/Daily Bruin)
News, Student Government
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March 8, 3:55 pm
All four graduate student government candidates will run unopposed
No candidates will be contested in this year’s graduate student government election. Michael Skiles, the current president of the Graduate Students Association, is among the four uncontested candidates, the GSA Election Board announced Tuesday. Read more...
News, Student Government
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March 8, 3:13 pm
USAC recap – March 7
This post was updated on March 9 at 1:20 p.m. The Undergraduate Students Association Council is the official student government representing the undergraduate student body at UCLA. Read more...
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March 8, 9:05 am
Mayor Eric Garcetti, LA City Councilmember Paul Koretz re-elected
Incumbent Los Angeles City Councilmember Paul Koretz was re-elected for a third term against challengers Jesse Creed and Mark Herd. Koretz, whose district includes Westwood, made the issue of homelessness a central part of his platform, helping allocate $138 million in city funds to homelessness services. Read more...
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March 8, 9:04 am
Los Angeles residents vote against Measure S, pass Measure M, H
About 11 percent of Los Angeles County residents voted in municipal elections Tuesday, deciding the future of several ballot initiatives. Measure S failed. The measure would have put a two-year moratorium on development that increases housing density, banned projects from amending the city’s general plan, required city staff rather than developers to complete environmental impact reports and mandated a public review of the general plan every five years. Read more...