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Davisville, Aug. 26, 2024: Got an additional $25 to $49 for the library?
Davis has two local tax measures on the ballot this fall and today we talk about the one for the library, Measure T. (We looked at the other one, sales tax increase Measure Q, last month.) Measure T would raise...
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Davisville, Aug. 12, 2024: Through his prolific sketches, Pete Scully is conversing with Davis
Pete Scully, who moved to Davis from London, has been sketching scenes in Davis for most of two decades and counting. He’s not sketching for a salary — his job as chief administrative officer for the Department of Statistics at UC...
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Davisville, July 29, 2024: Davis asks its voters to increase the city's sales tax
If you vote in Davis, this November you’ll be asked to decide Measure Q, a proposal to raise the sales tax in the city to 9.25 percent, up 1 point from now or an extra $1 for every taxable $100 you...
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Davisville, July 15, 2024: The other real estate in Davis
People talk more often about housing, but the commercial side of Davis real estate is just as important. That includes the buildings we work in, hang out in, meet in — in other words, offices, stores, restaurants, industrial space, apartments, churches,...
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Davisville, July 1, 2024: Guaraldi time is here, 2nd edition
“Vince is always pulling splinters from his fingers, driven in when he claws at the wooden baseboard, behind the keys,” wrote Bay Area music critic Ralph Gleason, as quoted in Davis author Derrick Bang’s newly revised book Vince Guaraldi at the...
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Davisville, June 17, 2024: Bob Dunning’s reborn column, one month later
Several weeks have passed since the Davis Enterprise laid off its best-known writer, Bob Dunning, who quickly moved his Wary 1 column to the online blog platform Substack and more than replaced his former salary through subscriptions. Today we talk about...
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Learn more about CalFresh benefits
Did you know we take CalFresh? It’s California’s version of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as food stamps. A new report by California Policy Lab found that most eligible California college students do not take part in the program. Among UCs, however, UC Davis has the second-highest rate of participation by eligible students,...
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Davisville, June 3, 2024: He helped ex-Enterprise writers Dunning and Weitzel land at Substack
Davis has just gone through a local news media earthquake. We’re talking about the Davis Enterprise’s decision to lay off Wary I columnist Bob Dunning (left, in photo), which shocked and/or angered thousands of people in town. In less than a...
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Davisville, May 27, 2024: She writes opinions for students at UC Davis
These days, you can get all the quick takes and snap judgments you want. They seem easier to find than facts, partly because they're catnip to the algorithms and impulses that drive social media. Today’s guest is doing something different with...
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Davisville, May 13, 2024: Founding DJ for vanished Davis station in the ’70s, then an astronaut, now KDRT: Steve Robinson comes full circle
Long before he flew four missions on the space shuttle, Steve Robinson was the first DJ of a now-vanished Davis commercial radio station, KYLO, in the late 1970s. Decades later, he’s a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at UC Davis,...
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Picnic in the Park returns: May through September
The music, food and family fun of Picnic in the Park returns to the Davis Farmers Market on May 1. The popular event is every Wednesday from 4 to 8 p.m., May through September. A local band plays each night. There’s children’s entertainment, loads of food vendors, and plenty of opportunity to gather as a...
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Davisville, April 29, 2024: Capitol Corridor’s plans include underpass from Olive Drive to Davis station, more trains
The Capitol Corridor trains that connect Davis with the Bay Area and Sacramento are evolving as the service recovers from the pandemic. The corridor is adding passenger cars and resuming a full weekday schedule this year, experimenting with a tap-on/tap-off payment...
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Davisville, April 15, 2024: Happiness in spite of the problems of the world
In Harboring Happiness: 101 Ways to be Happy, author Dan Brook says happiness is worth pursuing despite all the awful things happening across the globe. He bases this on research and on what he has learned during his decades as an...
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Three Davis Farmers Market vendors featured in new Food Network show
Six Davis restaurants are featured in the premiere of Food Network’s newest series “Best Bite in Town,” which airs Sunday, April 7 at 10 p.m. Three of those restaurants are vendors at the Davis Farmers Market, and will be available at the Saturday, April 6 market in downtown Davis. The six restaurants are Handheld Sweet...
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Davisville, April 1, 2024: A year later, less panic about chatbots
In winter 2023 we talked with Andy Jones and Margaret Merrill of UC Davis about ChatGPT, a new artificial-intelligence app that was setting off alarms for its advanced ability to "write" reports and articles. On today’s Davisville they report that...