Author Archives: Brad Greenberg

As the economy bounces back, many economists and urban planners warn that business expansion in Los Angeles and Orange Counties is being dampened by traffic congestion, pollution and housing prices. Though the state added 34,800 payroll jobs in October ““ the largest single-month increase since before the economy fell in March 2001 ““ regional economists […]

More than three dozen college presidents and chancellors are set to make more than $500,000 this year. Though University of California President Robert Dynes and UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Berdahl are on the list, the UC continues to lag significantly behind comparable schools in executive pay packages. A survey of college presidential salaries released this […]

Wildfires that ravaged Southern California over the past two weeks have burnt a sizeable hole in the state’s pocketbook to go along with more than 750,000 acres of charred land. Many economists said the wildfires will have a positive economic impact, albeit it a small one, while some policy analysts said the fires may be […]

I’m going trick-or-treating in Bel Air tonight, and I’m convinced the booty I make off with will be enough to buy groceries until Christmas ““ or at least will serve as groceries until Christmas. Like so many college students, I don’t go to the supermarket often. I don’t have the money. Instead, I rely on […]

A spigot that could flood the Athletics Department with hundreds of thousands of unbudgeted dollars has been turned on by the UCLA football team’s five-game winning streak that has landed it atop the Pac-10 Conference. There has been a slight increase in the sale of UCLA clothes and gear, but ticket sales and television programming […]

When The Anderson School at UCLA’s Dean Bruce Willison talks about running one of the top business schools in the country, he sounds more like Karl Dorrell than an academic administrator and long-time banker. A former chief operating officer of the 37,000-employee Home Savings of America, Willison equates managing employees and leading an organization to […]

At a time when the economy is slowly coming out of a recession, college tuition is skyrocketing, the College Board said Tuesday. In a report detailing national trends in the costs of higher education, the Board said that over the past 10 years, tuition has increased by 47 percent at public four-year colleges and universities, […]