Imagine the vast landscapes that Los Angeles’ water supply flows through. Water from the Colorado River races past the Eagle Mountains, bends into the Mojave Desert and snakes through the Imperial Valley. Read more...
Photo: (Nicole Anisgard Parra/Daily Bruin)
California rang in the new year by opening the world’s largest marijuana economy. Too bad the only people getting high off the market will be those who can afford to navigate the botched patchwork of regulations and large fees the state government has in store for them. Read more...
Photo: California’s proposed marijuana regulations would benefit large corporate entities and hurt smaller industry competitors, potentially pushing the latter into the black market. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Amid million-dollar losses, increasing labor costs and faltering book sales, you wouldn’t expect Associated Students UCLA to be spending money on renovating bathroom tiles to aesthetically match the outside flooring. Read more...
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While some Bruins will spend the weeks after the holidays doing extra sets of crunches in the hopes of getting their jeans to fit again after some scrumptious, festive food, other students will spend their time crunching numbers to see how they’ll afford their next meal. Read more...
John F. Kennedy once mused,“Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of riding a bike.” Evidently, many Bruins agree. UCLA Transportation launched its Bruin Bike Share program in October to allow the UCLA community to rent bikes for annual, monthly or single-time fees. Read more...
Photo: (Jacob Preal/Daily Bruin)
Excitement, cheers, tears of joy. Maybe even some coherent sentences. These are typically prospective students’ initial reactions to finding out they’ve been accepted to UCLA. But reality kicks in later, when these students have to figure out how to pay tuition and housing costs, and when they must work up the courage to open their first financial aid package and find out if they’ll be paying out of pocket or taking out loans. Read more...
Graduate students at UCLA might have to pay taxes on money they don’t make. The United States House of Representatives passed a tax bill Nov. 16 aimed at reforming the tax code system. Read more...
