As the economy bounces back, many economists and urban planners
warn that business expansion in Los Angeles and Orange Counties is
being dampened by traffic congestion, pollution and housing
prices.

More than three dozen college presidents and chancellors are set
to make more than $500,000 this year.
Though University of California President Robert Dynes and UC
Berkeley Chancellor Robert Berdahl are on the list, the UC
continues to lag significantly behind comparable schools in
executive pay packages.

Wildfires that ravaged Southern California over the past two
weeks have burnt a sizeable hole in the state’s pocketbook to
go along with more than 750,000 acres of charred land.

I’m going trick-or-treating in Bel Air tonight, and
I’m convinced the booty I make off with will be enough to buy
groceries until Christmas ““ or at least will serve as
groceries until Christmas.

A spigot that could flood the Athletics Department with hundreds
of thousands of unbudgeted dollars has been turned on by the UCLA
football team’s five-game winning streak that has landed it
atop the Pac-10 Conference.

When The Anderson School at UCLA’s Dean Bruce Willison
talks about running one of the top business schools in the country,
he sounds more like Karl Dorrell than an academic administrator and
long-time banker.

At a time when the economy is slowly coming out of a recession,
college tuition is skyrocketing, the College Board said
Tuesday.
In a report detailing national trends in the costs of higher
education, the Board said that over the past 10 years, tuition has
increased by 47 percent at public four-year colleges and
universities, and by 42 percent at private four-year colleges,
accounting for inflation.

Police are investigating a shooting that occurred early Saturday
morning, leaving one person wounded and marking the second shooting
incident in as many weeks for the UCLA area.

A stunted national economy and improvements in labor
productivity have kept California and national unemployment high,
economic experts said.
But many insist advancements in productivity will not have a
long-term effect on the number of available jobs, and that future
college graduates will find a friendly job market in
California.

One of the best places to learn about advertising and marketing
at UCLA isn’t in a classroom; it’s with the UCLA Ad
Team.
The Ad Team, which officially begins its eighth year today, has
a tradition of developing and educating UCLA students in
advertising and placing them with major advertising agencies.