A Sampling of Clips for
October 8th, 2007
* UCSD faculty and staff may obtain a copy of an article by e-mailing the University Communications Office
San Diego's Backroom 'Reform'
Los Angeles Times, Opinion, Oct. 7 -- San Diego is considering rewriting its charter to make permanent a "strong mayor" system that only last year began its five-year trial run. You might ask, why so fast? Why not let the experiment play out longer before taking the significant step of changing San Diego's charter? (Co-authored by Steven P. Erie, professor of political science at UCSD) More
UCSD Project Received Extensive Public Review
San Diego Union-Tribune, Letters to the Editor, Oct. 8 -- As interim vice chancellor of Resource Management and Planning for the University of California San Diego, I would like to point out that the North Campus student housing facility received extensive public review and was subject to California Environmental Quality Act certification. (Written by Interim Vice Chancellor Gary Matthews) More
Telling Us Little on Immigration Costs
San Diego Union-Tribune, Opinion, Oct. 5 -- San Diego has a long history of politically driven “studies” of the costs of illegal immigration. The latest salvo is a report commissioned by county Supervisor Bill Horn and written by a demographer, John Weeks, and a former Chula Vista police official, David Eisenberg, which estimated that undocumented immigrants cost the county government more than $101 million in the fiscal year 2006-07. (Written by Wayne Cornelius, director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at UCSD)
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