Pacific Gas and Electric Co. announced it has paid more than $3.5 million in franchise fee and property tax payments in Yolo County in the past year. Franchise fee payments were more than $2.3 million Ñ about $590,000 for natural gas and more than $1.7 million for electric service. Property tax payments were about $1.2 … Continue Reading
Local residents can learn more about their credit score Ñ what factors contribute to their overall score and how this number can affect their financial future Ñ at a free workshop Tuesday, June 16, sponsored by Yolo Federal Credit Union. The event runs from 6 to 7 p.m. at the credit union, 2171 Cowell Blvd. … Continue Reading
The issue: LetÕs all do our part to make Davis High SchoolÕs new multiuse stadium a reality The attention our community gives education is unparalleled. AND NOW, in the midst of some of the most smoky financial times in history, that commitment to education has been turned up a notch Ñ and we should all … Continue Reading
Enterprise columnist It was a small item, really, running in the ÒBrieflyÓ section along the left-hand margin of Page A3 one day last week. I would have missed it had not a kind reader pointed it out to me. ÒClerk cited for sale of tobacco to minor,Ó said the straightforward and accurate headline above a … Continue Reading
Enterprise columnist BUFFALO BOB É Bob Foster just canÕt seem to stay ÒretiredÓ É the former head coach at UC Davis, his alma mater, Foster is off to Boulder to coach outside linebackers at the University of Colorado, where heÕll join the staff of another former Aggie, BuffsÕ head coach Dan Hawkins É Foster, a … Continue Reading
The issue: Recording tries to elevate events in PakistanÕs Swat Valley to the rallying level of the Israeli-Palestinian standoff President Obama has a gift for provoking the American far right into bouts of impotent fury. It seems he has the same gift for infuriating the Islamic far right. Al-Jazeera TV broadcast an audiotape reliably believed … Continue Reading
Michele Nicole Jensen and Shane Lige Goddard of Incline Village, Nev., will marry at The Chateau at Incline Village on May 29, 2010. The bride-elect is the daughter of Bob and Niki Jensen of Woodland. A graduate of Woodland High School, she attended Yuba College and is employed as a store manager for Spitsen Lumber … Continue Reading
Vince and Petrea Marchand of Davis are pleased to announce the birth of a daughter, Romola Edith Marchand. Romola is the main character in a novel by George Eliot; the name means Òstrength.Ó Born May 12, 2009, at the Woodland Memorial Hospital Birthing Center, the baby weighed 9 pounds, 5 ounces, and measured 21 inches. … Continue Reading
Enterprise columnist So, I got home early last Sunday evening after a long and strenuous hike with a group of Brownie Scouts through the poison-oak infested wilds of Cold Canyon up near Monticello Dam. There were, not surprisingly, several messages waiting on the answering machine when we got home, the first of which kindly notified … Continue Reading
The issue: President Obama launches an assault on our governmentÕs secrecy President Obama, it seems, is more than just talking a good game about the need to cut down on the amount of excess government secrecy. The day after he took office, Obama issued an executive order reversing a Bush administration directive encouraging agencies to … Continue Reading
Enterprise columnist Every now and then you open a can of worms you didnÕt intend. Such was the case recently when I brought up the subject of wind chimes in this space and pointed out that one personÕs delight can be another personÕs anguish. Little did I know that wind chimes were such a big … Continue Reading
The issue: ItÕs time to call an end to the hateful rhetoric over abortion that leads unhinged individuals to murder Officials are saying they believe the killing of Kansas abortion provider Dr. George Tiller during church services Sunday morning was Òthe act of an isolated individual.Ó Perhaps. But the generalized culture of violence and hate … Continue Reading
The issue: Enacting a value added tax in the United States would make sense only as part of broad-scale tax reform and simplification With the federal government running trillion-dollar deficits, revenues flat and President ObamaÕs ambitious health care plan to pay for, it was inevitable that the Value Added Tax would make one of its … Continue Reading
Enterprise columnist MAKING A BAD SITUATION WORSE É so, our esteemed Legislature, unable to solve the stateÕs budget problems, has now decided to deflect public anger from itself and aim it squarely at the University of California É according to The Enterprise front-pager, ÒState lawmakers introduced legislation for a constitutional amendment that would strip the … Continue Reading
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