UC Regents Request $15M for Riverside Medical School

Last week, University of California regents included in their budget proposal for next year a request for $15 million in state funding to support the UC-Riverside School of Medicine. The medical school is scheduled to open in the fall of 2013. Supporters of the school hope that lawmakers will be more receptive to the request following the passage of the Proposition 30 tax hike and improvements in California's economy.

• "Regents Pitch Med School Funding" (Muckenfuss, Riverside Press-Enterprise, 11/20).