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The Latest: Family: Man Who Took Plane Was Warm, Gentle
The New York Times, in an Associated Press story, quoted Erroll Southers of the USC Price School on security aspects of the airport employee who stole a passenger plane in Seattle. Erroll Southers says Saturday that the unidentified man represents one of the greatest threats to aviation by being an insider cleared to have access…
Police Training and Procedures Discussion with Guests
Fox News Los Angeles affiliate KTTV-TV interviewed Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on police tactics and brutality. Jody Armour: There’s only so much training can do. Police officers are also human beings. It is hard to train people to remain rational in situation that is dangerous to them. We need to train people to avoid…
BIRD BATTLES: CITIES, RENTAL SHOPS, AND VIGILANTES TAKE AIM AT DOCKLESS E-SCOOTERS
L.A. Taco featured the controversy on stand-up electric scooters in Los Angeles. Marlon Boarnet of the USC Price School said there is a logic to the phenomenon — the need to gradually phase out carbon-fueled vehicles. He said they are helping to solve a long-standing problem in transportation: the “last mile.” There is a logic…
Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Too Far Left for Hollywood?
The Hollywood Reporter quoted Sherry Bebitch Jeffe of the USC Price School and Dan Schnur of the USC Annenberg School about House of Representatives nominee Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) visit to Los Angeles. “Eric [Garcetti] is the establishment,” says Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, a senior fellow at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy. “It’s so…
Blue Wave Threatens GOP’s Surfer Congressman
Fox & Hounds Daily published an editorial by Sherry Bebitch Jeffe of the USC Price School and Doug Jeffe about the influence of Democratic wave on Republicans in the 48th CD.
How much does it cost to rent in LA?
Curbed LA cited comments by Richard Green of the USC Lusk Center on factors that may have contributed to declining rental costs in Los Angeles. In May, Richard Green, director of the Lusk Center for Real Estate at USC, told Curbed that rent growth in LA may have slowed in response to new housing construction and the…
Where do people get money to buy California homes these days? Often, from mom and dad
KPCC-FM interviewed Richard Green of the USC Lusk Center on homeownership in California.
This is How it Ends
In today’s episode, we marvel at Dolan’s ability in This is How it Ends to mirror the gentrification fight with the relationship between young activist Ella and the older mentor Molly. We think about mentoring, gentrification, family, policing, and so many other themes as we discuss this tight thriller which is also social commentary.
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Calculations show bullet train can complete route within 2 hours and 40 minutes. Reality may prove slower
Los Angeles Times quoted Lisa Schweitzer of the USC Price School on the likely opposition to a bullet train traveling 220 miles per hour through California cities like Bakersfield, Fresno and Palmdale.