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A tasty evening was had by all

This year, the Davis Odd Fellows Lodge took over running the popular “A Taste of Davis” and we are delighted to report that the event on April 18 was a great success for all concerned. We wish to thank the fine restaurants, wineries and breweries that treated our 250 guests to delightful food and drink: […]

May 23, 2013 | Posted in Letters | Tagged ,

Lifeline could be direct line to identity theft

The issue: Government demands more personal information, but firms are lax with it Lifeline is a federal Reagan-era program intended to provide discounted phone service to low-income Americans. After 2005, when cell phones were added, the program was prone to abuse and fraud. Reforms introduced last year, including tightened eligibility requirements, trimmed the number of […]

May 23, 2013 | Posted in Our View | Tagged ,

Regulations have gone amok

By Jay Ambrose A guy’s walking across a college campus, sees a young woman, grins, winks and, even though he doesn’t know her, says he’d sure like to take someone so beautiful out on a date. She’s offended. She accuses this fellow student of sexual harassment, and, because of new federal rules, she does not […]

May 23, 2013 | Posted in Columns | Tagged ,

Words are our gateways

As I sat in the Yolo Superior Courtroom this week and listened at length to the expert in linguistics speak about the nuances of language, I thought about the nuances of being beaten within an inch of your life while having your stigmatizing identity hurled at you in the most hateful form possible. I thought […]

May 23, 2013 | Posted in Letters | Tagged ,

Bike to School Day a success

Davis Street Smarts and Davis Bicycles! would like to thank city and Davis school district officials who greeted students on our second annual Bike to School Day, May 8. It was another big success; we counted 2,263 bikes in racks, which averages about 36 percent student-bicycling that day at Davis public schools. Thanks to Joe […]

May 23, 2013 | Posted in Letters | Tagged ,

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