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In a highly contested 4th Assembly District race, Napa County Planning Commissioner Matt Pope trusts that depth of experience will carry him through. The 42-year-old American Canyon resident has aspirations of filling the local Assembly seat after it is vacated by Mariko Yamada, a Davis Democrat who terms out next year. The 4th District, which […]
By Kevin Fagan A college education in California is still a good bargain compared with the rest of the nation, but that advantage is rapidly eroding as tuition costs spiral upward and students have to take out more loans, according to a study released Monday. In 2000, one-third of the state’s freshmen at both private […]
Yolo County supervisors have once again endorsed legislation that would designate the Berryessa Snow Mountain region as a National Conservation Area. By a 3-2 vote, supervisors on Tuesday urged Congress to pass legislation introduced by Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., and Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, designating close to 350,000 acres of federal lands in Yolo, […]
After six months of work, the downtown parking task force that the City Council formed late last year is about ready to hand up recommendations that could help address Davis’ downtown parking conundrum. On Wednesday, the task force will meet to discuss and potentially pick one of three strategies that would markedly change the way […]
“Tenacity.”
That was the word Davis school board president Sheila Allen picked to describe the 23 graduates over age 18 who received high school diplomas Tuesday at the Davis Adult and Community Education School’s graduation ceremony. “You come up to a problem, you go around it, you go through it, you stick to it,” Allen said.
Pam Mari, the Davis school district’s executive director of student services, told the graduates that they had met “great challenges — nobody gave it to you, nobody made it easy … “
