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By Carlton Larson When the Board of Trustees of the Davis school district voted to implement a lottery for GATE admissions, it relied heavily on the legal advice provided by the board’s counsel, who contended that the current method of GATE selection exposed the district to the risk of a lawsuit. As several board members [...]
The issue: Surveys show economy is picking up steam The consensus has been that the economy will continue to recover slowly but steadily unless Congress does something stupid, always a possibility, to mess it up. BUT SURVEYS of economists by The Wall Street Journal and USA Today indicate that the recovery is strong enough to [...]
Regarding Rich Rifkin’s column published May 8 in The Davis Enterprise, I was confounded by his accusations and conclusions that City Council members Dan Wolk and Lucas Frerichs were unduly influenced by a local labor union. It is also as probable that Wolk and Frerichs came to their positions from listening to past managers in [...]
I’d like to commend individual members and the Board of Education as a whole for showing leadership and providing clear direction on the GATE program review and several other districtwide matters of interest during the May 2 board meeting. Amid all the angst and heated discussion going on recently, it was refreshing to see some [...]
The Putah Creek Council’s first CreekSpeak talk of 2013 will spotlight Putah Creek’s fish, and explain how the Putah Creek Accord’s mandated in-stream flows have affected fish populations over the past 13 years. Peter Moyle, who has been studying the ecology and conservation of freshwater and estuarine fishes in California for more than 40 years, [...]
The issue: Money-saving change will not jeopardize public safety Despite protestations that Davis’ public safety will be compromised, a majority of the Davis City Council took a courageous stand Tuesday and voted to adopt a new fire staffing model. The move, which had been recommended in an audit prepared last fall by then-Interim Fire Chief [...]
When it comes to setting education funding policies for California, preconceived notions have long held at least as much sway as actual reality. Thus it was that when the state Supreme Court in 1971 issued its landmark Serrano v. Priest decision demanding that per-student school funding be equalized throughout the state, the presumption was that [...]
I hope The Enterprise will indulge me with a response to Freddie Oakley’s criticisms of my Forum article about the Measure I election process. Oakley makes several statements about my findings that call, at a minimum, for clarification. My first suggestion is that readers compare both articles (available in print and on The Enterprise’s website) [...]
Last Friday I did some shopping in Davis. On my way home, I realized I had lost my wallet. I remembered putting it on the seat beside me when I sat down on a bench. I hurried back downtown and began walking up and down every street, trying to find that bench. When I finally [...]
By Freddie Oakley In his op-ed piece last Sunday, John Munn asserts that, “… the Yes on I campaign was greatly assisted by the Yolo County Elections Office.” I understand his angst. He was a dedicated opponent of Measure I, and his side narrowly lost. But his claim that the proponents of Measure I were [...]
The issue: Hope may be on the horizon, but old habits are hard to break The coming of spring, with the snow melting in the steep mountain passes, is traditionally when the Taliban leave their havens in tribal Pakistan to return to Afghanistan and resume the battle against the government in Kabul and its NATO [...]
Thank you for your support of the Food Animal and Reproduction Medicine Club at UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine. We appreciate your help to promote our entry in the BCF University Competition. We were able to generate about 2,000 votes for the FARM Club “COW-lifornia Girls” video, out of a total of 6,000 votes [...]
