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Alexandra Syphard — one of the first researchers to study the effectiveness of home hardening and defensible space in real wildfires in the early 2010s — said it’s somewhere in the middle.

The Camarillo area has limited resources dedicated to home hardening and defensible space management education and home-specific consultation visits.

Thomas wrote that the plaintiffs had offered “no defensible argument” that the appropriations clause requires more than a congressional law authorizing “the disbursement of specified funds for identified purposes,” as was the funding for the CFPB.

But witnessing the rapid exit of so many donors over what she felt were defensible statements has given her a more pessimistic outlook on building sustainable support for progressive causes.

Ending legacy admissions may be defensible in the service of equity, but it’s neither necessary nor sufficient to increase lower-income students’ access to higher education.