The following is a copy of a letter to Davis City Council members: I have known Luke Watkins and David Thompson for over 30 years and during that time, both have dedicated their careers to social justice issues, specifically those related to increasing adequate housing for low-income individuals. I trust that what they are saying about DACHA is accurate to the … Continue Reading
Davis is, with any luck, about to ban plastic bags, so environmentally destructive are they. And yet CVS/pharmacy still puts their customers’ purchases into plastic bags without asking us whether we want a plastic bag. And when we say we do not want a plastic bag, what do we find, but that now CVS/pharmacy does not … Continue Reading
Sometime between 4 p.m. Feb. 2 and 10 a.m. Feb. 4, a thief climbed the fence surrounding my vegetable plot in the Davis Community Gardens and stole 12 heavy-duty tomato cages and eight lighter-duty cages that were stacked in the middle of the plot, awaiting the spring planting of summer vegetables. The plot is clearly … Continue Reading
The following is a copy of a letter to the UC Davis Women’s Resources and Research Center staff: As a member of the Legislative Women’s Caucus, I was deeply disturbed to learn of the hate incident that occurred at your center on Jan. 30. The noose has long been used as a symbol to terrorize … Continue Reading
Our family has always been a co-op family. When I was growing up, my grandmother’s Berkeley Co-op number was 997. Our family’s Berkeley Co-op number was 1844. We were definitely co-op consumers. So it wasn’t surprising when my sister, Ann Evans (former mayor of Davis), came to Davis and founded the Davis Food Co-op. It … Continue Reading
When my husband and I married in 1963, we looked to a community to find that handful of people in a community who work for the greater good, and we discovered three or four handfuls instead of just one. Davis has been our home since that time. We can’t say that we’ve been disappointed until … Continue Reading
I would like to respond to a recent letter by Ann Evans, the wife of DACHA developer David Thompson and a former mayor like myself. Evans makes a number of claims that are incorrect or misleading, but I want to correct the record on the fundamental premise. Evans claims that: “There’s a pattern of abuse … Continue Reading
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