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While sitting outside at Mishka’s on a beautiful day, I witnessed three cars do an illegal U-turn to get into a parking space close to the front door. My understanding is that the fine for this citation is about $240, and to have the violation removed from your driving record (so your insurance doesn’t go […]
If there was one big reason why “paycheck protection,” on Tuesday’s ballot as Proposition 32, failed for the third time in the past 16 years, it was this: The concept by itself is simply unfair. Like its predecessors in 1996 and 2005, Proposition 32 aimed to deprive labor unions of their voice in California politics […]
I am writing in response to Paul Brady’s letter (Nov. 4) proposing that Davis Joint Unified School District teachers take furlough time on non-teaching days, “so as not to disadvantage students and parents.” To equate similar steps taken by the University of California faculty to those by DJUSD teachers is like comparing apples to oranges, […]
An 87-year-old longtime Davis resident (my mother), Corinne Cooke, was delayed from voting in Davis on Tuesday because she was wearing a T-shirt with a photo of Michelle Obama that includes a message saying “Forward.” She was told to sit in a corner, while on an oxygen tank, and instructed to remain there with no […]
The issue: Election fears turn out to be unfounded It was an article of faith in the George W. Bush administration and among its congressional allies that voter fraud, presumably in aid of Democrats, was widespread. DESPITE A FIVE-YEAR investigation and the firing of eight U.S. attorneys for showing insufficient zeal in pursuit of that […]
