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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
If there’s one dominant reason for the distrust many Californians feel for governments at all levels, it’s the sense that special interests regularly pour millions of dollars into federal, state and local election campaigns while contriving to hide their identities. That reality makes SB 52, the so-called DISCLOSE Act sponsored by Democratic state Sens. Mark [...]
I wasn’t going to write this letter, but after reading the letters in defense of FamiliesFirst, I felt I had no choice. Several years ago, before FamiliesFirst had built its facility on Fifth Street, I had the misfortune to be a neighbor of one of its group homes in Davis. I found the children there [...]
Summer’s here, school’s out and our children may be spending more time at the homes of friends or relatives. Many parents wouldn’t hesitate to ask some basic safety questions before sending their child to play at another house: Will an adult be home? Is there a swimming pool on the premises? Might my child be [...]
Thank you to The Enterprise for the news in Sunday’s paper that Davis Media Access is selling videos of the recent Davis High School graduation ceremonies. How great is that? I dearly wish this service had been available when our daughters graduated from Davis High many years ago. I would love to be able to [...]
The issue: Plaintiffs hope decision leads to greater access to important tests To most laypersons, it defies common sense that a private company could patent for profit a naturally occurring part of the human body. Fortunately, all nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court felt the same way. THEY RULED THAT human genes, specifically the [...]
Dear Readers: Happy Father’s Day to all the men in our reading audience who have had the pleasures and responsibilities of raising children. This includes fathers, stepfathers, grandfathers and those who have stepped in as father figures for those who needed them. Bless you all. Having a caring father is not only one of life’s [...]
People say to me, “You put so much personal stuff in your columns. I could never do that.” This surprises me because I leave so much out. I forbid myself whole topics, including anything that reveals intimate information about friends or family. (My husband says he begs to differ.) Out of a dozen meaty experiences, [...]
