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Eric Avila, a historian of urban culture at UCLA, said the city’s “permissiveness, experimentation and some would say progressiveness” are features that “play into West Hollywood becoming the new Amsterdam of the U.S. in terms of cannabis.” City and business leaders hope the brand refresh will draw big-spending tourists and upscale locals to the planned businesses, where visitors will be able to smoke, eat or imbibe their weed of choice in a range of settings.
Read More | November 29, 2021
An analysis conducted by the UCLA Voting Rights Project used outcomes from other statewide elections, such as the 2012 Supreme Court contest, to see how the District 15 in the plan would perform for Latino voters. The district would consistently vote against Latino candidates of choice, the analysis found.
Read More | November 26, 2021
Chad Dunn, legal director of the UCLA Voting Rights Project, said bipartisan negotiations may be good for political parties, but they’re not always good for everyone — including voters of color. His organization has criticized the Washington commission’s proposed map as potentially violating the federal Voting Rights Act in Central Washington, which is heavily Latino.
Read More | November 24, 2021
Martínez subrayó que, de acuerdo con un informe reciente del doctor David Hayes-Bautista, director del Centro para el Estudio de la Salud y la Cultura Latina en UCLA, el producto interno bruto de los latinos ascendió en 2018 a $2.6 billones, y si fueran una nación independiente, ocuparían la octava posición en el mundo, con…
Read More | November 23, 2021
Democrats Brady Piñero Walkinshaw and April Sims came to the conclusion that it was required, using analysis from UCLA Voting Rights Project director Matt Barreto. Republicans Graves and Joe Fain used a different analysis and said drawing a Latino voter majority district would constitute racial gerrymandering.
Read More | November 18, 2021
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