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* Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of “Ask the expert” columns that will appear in the coming days, in advance of the Measure I election, regarding various technical aspects of the city’s water utility and the proposed Woodland-Davis surface water project. The expert: Graham Fogg, UC Davis professor of hydrogeology. Fogg’s […]
Law school applications are headed for a 30-year low, reflecting increased concern over soaring tuition, crushing student debt and diminishing prospects of lucrative employment upon graduation. As of this January, there were 30,000 applicants to law schools for the fall, a 20 percent decrease from the same time last year and a 38 percent decline […]
How much money would it take to get you to shave your head?
$50? $100? $500?
Stewart and Victoria Savage will do it for $1,000, and they’ve nearly raised that much from people willing to pay.
On the evening of Wednesday, March 13, Savage, director of the Davis Downtown Business Association, and his daughter Victoria, a first-grader at North Davis Elementary School, will sit down in chairs at de Vere’s Irish Pub in Davis, alongside many other brave souls, and have all of the hair shaved off their heads.
In doing so, they will be taking part in a nationwide effort to fight childhood cancer, as all of the pledges collected by participants …
On average, college and university endowments’ investments lost 0.3 percent in the last fiscal year, a sharp drop from the average return of 19.2 percent in fiscal 2011, according to a study by the Commonfund Institute and the National Association of College and University Business Officers, known as Nacubo. The returns were dragged down mostly […]
A mistrial has been declared in the case of Gubani Roderico Rosales Quinteros, the Elk Grove parcel deliveryman accused of causing a fiery triple-fatal crash in Woodland. Quinteros, 42, was being tried in Yolo Superior Court on three counts of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence and four identity theft-related charges in connection with the Aug. […]
