Every year juniors at Davis High School in the Race and Social Justice class take part in a yearlong research project. My group decided to look into sleep deprivation among high school students. The results were somewhat expected but not what should be happening. Through surveys, we found that about 60 percent of students have […]

The revelation that the earth’s CO2 levels are now as high as they were 3 million years ago made me wonder what Australopithecus was doing back then to have such an impact on the environment. Max Zeigler Davis

Thank you to Glen Byrns for sharing his Davis firefighter story; please hear mine. I was in a single-vehicle wreck on the freeway near Richards Boulevard about two years ago. No one else, just me and my truck. I phoned 911, just so CHP could write me up and call a tow truck. I explained […]

The fact that any public employee can get a $265,000 per year as a pension is reason No. 1 why the public pensions should go away. At the very least, pensions should max out at $100,000 per year. Ideally, the pension would turn into a high-percentage 403(b) match. Did University of California President Mark Yudof […]

We want to thank Christine Rivard, Dennis Hubbard and the city of Davis Community Services Department for waiving the fee on the Veterans’ Memorial Center facilities that we used on April 27 for the 19th annual Northern California Child Sexual Abuse Awareness Conference: “National Scandal: Family Courts Placing Children with Identified Sex Abusers.” We also […]