Los Angeles farmers’ markets are fighting city legislation that would tax them for using the city’s streets and limit street closure fee waivers. A Los Angeles City Council proposal would allow each Westwood business only two special permit and street closure fee waivers a year. Read more...

Personal stories of rape, sexual violence, pain and survival will be on display today in Schoenberg quad. The stories will appear on dozens of T-shirts, painted by survivors of sexual violence over the last six years at UCLA, the Santa Monica Rape Treatment Center and the Sexual Assault Crisis Agency in Long Beach. Read more...

By the time you read this editorial, your driver’s license may be obsolete ““ replaced by a new, federally standardized identification card that would deny illegal immigrants the right to drive and jeopardize the personal privacy of all Americans. Read more...

California Senate Bill 687 is an important education bill that should promptly pass into law. Introduced by state Senator Joe Simitian, SB 687 would require individual schools to publish how much they spend on teacher salaries and other per-pupil costs. Read more...

A new branch of the Los Angeles Public Library opened in Westwood on May 7, offering the area’s readers, including UCLA students, a new source for their favorite John Grisham, Dan Brown or J.K. Read more...

Think of all the “stupid” questions students never ask in class. Now, imagine a tool that allows students to anonymously interact with their professors during class, so that there is no fear of a stupid question. Read more...

The man the University of California hired as director two years ago to reform the problem-ridden Los Alamos National Laboratory announced his resignation Friday during a critical time in the UC’s potential bid for the extension of its current management contract. Read more...