A new study by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research - comparing data from the 2001 and 2003 California Health Interview Surveys - finds that the overall prevalence of diabetes among California adults is increasing. Nearly 1.7 million California adults age 18 and over (6.6 percent) have been diagnosed with diabetes, up from 1.5 [...]

Dear Friends,
As we enter this holiday season and prepare for the upcoming year, we wanted to take the opportunity to thank you for everything you have done to support the Center for Law in the Public Interest this year. It has been a remarkable year. We have continued the fight to improve our children’s [...]

Los Angeles Times
By Caitlin Liu
Times Staff Writer
December 1, 2005
The number of rapid-bus lines in Los Angeles County will more than double over the next three years, making it easier for commuters to rely on public transportation to move quickly around the region.
On Wednesday, a court-appointed mediator endorsed a Metropolitan Transportation Authority plan to meet demands [...]

New York Times
December 7, 2005
By PATRICIA LEIGH BROWN
ANGEL ISLAND, Calif., Dec. 1 - It was known, simply, as “the wooden building.” For 30 years, from 1910 to 1940, the barren walls of the Angel Island Immigration Station gave mute testimony to the experiences of roughly 175,000 Chinese immigrants who were detained and exhaustively interrogated on [...]

Two new reports from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research find that one in four California adults doesn’t walk for transportation or leisure, and more than one in four California teens don’t get the recommended amount of physical activity. The reports also show that safe neighborhoods and parks are major factors encouraging physical [...]

The new book Awakening from the Dream: Civil Rights under Siege and the New Struggle for Equal Justice exposes the Supreme Court’s methodical dismantling of federal laws that advance inclusion, equal membership, political participation, and economic mobility in our diverse national community. The ongoing Federalism Revolution has crippled Congress’s legislative powers and made it difficult [...]

The new book The Quest for Environmental Justice captures the voices of frontline warriors who are battling environmental injustice and human rights abuses at the grassroots level around the world and challenging government and industry policies and globalization trends that place people of color and the poor at special risk. The Center contributed the chapter [...]

According to a Los Angeles Times Editorial: “It’s always encouraging to see elected officials who are civil servants in the best definition of the phrase. [Laura Chick, City Controller of the City of Los Angeles,] is one of these, transforming her office into a comprehensive evaluator of the effectiveness of government. Few city departments have [...]

Historic grave open to public
By Kimm Groshong Staff Writer
Pasadena Star-News
ALTADENA - A judge has confirmed the public’s right to visit the
historic grave site of Owen Brown, the abolitionist and son of John
Brown “the liberator.”
Pasadena Judge C. Edward Simpson this week ruled in favor of a trails
group known as Save the Altadena Trails in the case [...]