The brand-new Ronald Reagan Medical Center on the campus of UCLA provides 520 standard beds and 61 short-term hospitalization beds. It contains 1,050,000 square feet and encompasses four kinds of treatment facilities: the Mattel Children's Hospital, the Lynda Resnick Neuropsychiatric Institute, an emergency center treating all manner of traumas and a general hospital handling everything from organ transplants to cancer treatment, infectious diseases and general surgery.
Meet a Republican Candidate Who Often Acts Like a Democrat
There are plenty of good reasons why state Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner has the next Republican nomination for governor all but locked up. And there are a host of other reasons why the better-known Democrats now thinking of trying for their party’s nod to run against him should not be taking victory for granted, despite the big Democratic voter registration edge that has made California a “blue” state in the last five Presidential elections.
Our Anti-Gay Bias Has Eased a Bit, But It Still Remains Strong
[Editor’s Note: This essay marks the return of the popular Santa Monica-based essayist to the newspaper. His thinking will appear every Thursday.]
If ever there was a contest that tested how much prejudice remains in California’s melting pot, it was the fight over Prop. 8, restoring the ban on same-sex marriages.