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Vernette Marsh (June 9) writes about the establishment of the Snow Mountain Wilderness in 1984. It was a special privilege for me to work on the designation of the Snow Mountain Wilderness. Marsh will be pleased to know that since being established, the Snow Mountain Wilderness has been enlarged to 60,076 acres. The latest addition […]
The issue: President Obama pulls the plug on lawmakers’ picnic President Barack Obama basically derailed his “charm offensive” — not that this particular PR operation was having its desired effect anyway — by postponing until fall the annual White House congressional picnic. THE EVENT IS traditionally held in June. Lawmakers’ children are out of school […]
By Ed Ivancic The American medical community has been concerned for some time about the reality of hunger and malnutrition in our nation. Nutrition is paramount to health and survival, especially for young children who are more susceptible to illness and long-term health problems without proper nutrition. In the first year of life, the human […]
Thank you for your articles on the sad breakdown of EMQ FamiliesFirst. If the letter to the editor by Ellen Cohen on Friday was correct, FamiliesFirst was stripped of the right to restrain these children by Community Care Licensing 22CCR84072 (23). Analogously, isn’t this like sending our police out without the ability to restrain offenders […]
Last Tuesday evening, I witnessed an unprepared Davis City Council struggle in confusion to deal with a high-pressure proposal to reject a $1,125,000 federal farmland-preservation grant that city staff had placed on the consent calendar. It is troubling that City Manager Steve Pinkerton stated that the staff often put items for which debate is expected […]
Open space is a highly valued component of Davis’ quality of life. That is why we voted to tax ourselves to acquire and maintain lands currently in agricultural use to maintain as open space. The recent move by the present City Council to quietly move a valued piece of our current inventory of open space […]
