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Davisville, Nov. 11, 2024: Deciding what Davis citizen commissions should talk about
This week’s subject is narrow, but contains a question worth considering. It involves one of the ways that ideas emerge and ultimately shape public life in Davis. This specific path involves the Davis citizen commissions that advise the City Council on...
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Davisville, Oct. 28, 2024: Founder of Davis nonprofit Sahaya believes in local knowledge, trust and ripples
Sahaya International, a Davis nonprofit, took shape after a chance meeting when founder Dr. Koen Van Rompay (pictured), a researcher at UC Davis, was in India for an AIDS conference. Since then Sahaya has grown into a group of friends and...
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Davisville, Oct. 14, 2024: The Davis Night Market, offering free food every weeknight, turns 5
Each weeknight at 9, people gather in Central Park near 4th and C streets, some to receive surplus food, some to hand it out. This is the Davis Night Market (pictured), a small-budget volunteer venture created in 2019 to feed people...
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Davisville, Sept. 30, 2024: Two pros size up ‘An Election Like No Other’
Today’s show is for people interested in the current election but sick of the usual political noise. The guests are two highly experienced political analysts, Dan Schnur and Richard Zeiger, who will teach an Osher Lifelong Learning Institute class at the...
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Davisville, Sept. 23, 2024: Emese Parker wants to lighten the load of Davis moms
Emese Parker (pictured), an author and certified nurse practitioner specializing in women's health, began offering Davis Women's Circles this summer. Each has a theme -- one session focused on the perfect mom myth vs. the good-enough mother, and others include the...
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Davisville, Sept. 9, 2024: Watching wildlife in Davis, plus listening to a voice from a previous pandemic
Late summer offers a few particular attractions in Davis. The heat fades a bit, if only because the days are shorter, and evenings outdoors are mild. It’s an inviting season to look at the full moon if it’s up, and to...
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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...