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The issue: Rover finds proof that Mars likely once supported life An antidote to the periodic blues this country feels over a sense that we can’t do anything great anymore is even now parked on Mars drilling holes into its radiation-blasted surface. THE ROVER CURIOSITY, after an improbably dramatic Rube Goldberg-like descent to the surface, […]
By Dave Miller My congratulations to Anne Ternus-Bellamy for her article “The Montessori Way” in the March 15 edition of The Enterprise. It provides glowing descriptions of well-run classrooms where students are excited by the ways they are learning. It made me a bit nostalgic because the descriptions sounded just like the Birch Lane classrooms […]
There was an article in the paper Thursday titled “Aquadart Swimmers,” outlining how the Davis resident swimmers fared at NCSA Jr. Nationals. There were two swimmers who were apparently taken out of the article because they reside in Vacaville. These two swimmers travel 20 minutes to Davis, sometimes twice a day, to swim for the […]
The deputy district attorney has asked a judge to increase the bail of Clayton D. Garzon to $500,000 from $75,000, on account of “changed circumstances.” I stated in a letter published by The Enterprise last week that “If this troubled youth is not a danger to the community, then I am a blue-bottomed baboon.” The […]
I’m afraid it’s not as positive a travel climate as “Our View” suggests. In fact, the hassles caused by the Transportation Security Agency and Customs and Border Patrol are driving tourists away. See the following press release by the U.S. Travel Association: http://www.ustravel.org/news/press-releases/startling-survey-results-reveal-entry-process-deters-millions-overseas-travelers. If you’ve traveled overseas lately and had to endure the re-entry into […]
The issue of ninth-graders in high school doesn’t seem to have anything to do with what is best for the students. Keep them in middle school. Let them be 13 and 14 years old. Let them adjust more gently to being teens. Let them be successful. Some of them are really not developmentally or emotionally […]
The article about the Yolo County Airport (March 2) managed to gloss over the impact to West Plainfield residents. The county is first to identify that it wants income from the Yolo County Airport. More than $8 million in federal funds have been used to upgrade the runway. Yet, the county continues to ignore environmental […]
