This evening I was listening to NPR and heard the end of an interview with Delaine Eastin. How interesting! Such an experienced and well thought out politician. She has promised to stay engaged and help elect more women (only 23% in the California legislature) and to hold elected officials feet to the fire regarding positions taken and promises made. I'm glad!
Check out her interview here: https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/political-breakdown
John
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Recently I heard someone describe Davis in print as a "company town". This was in the context of the housing needs of local residents and/or students. This writer also made some cheap shot about "Without UCD, we'd be Dixon or Vacaville" and I am sure the good people who live in those towns did not appreciate that slap, just like some voters in the 2016 did not like being called "deplorables". C'mon have some manners!
But that is not my main point here. The main point is: Who wants to be a company town anyway? Historically company towns were situations where a large employer manipulated the employees of the company and residents of the nearby town for their own economic benefit…. essentially making the residents indentured servants. Is that the kind of relationship we want between UCD and the town? I think not.
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Everyone knows that newspapers are under severe threats to their survival and have been for some time. The Davis Enterprise is no different. Yet newspapers play an essential role in informing the community, fostering community dialogue, and forging community. That makes me loathe to criticize the Enterprise. But when the new Editor, Sebastian Oñate, engages in practices that undermine those very goals, I feel as though I must speak out. I do so not to hurt the Enterprise further but rather in the hopes of changing his ways, or if that is not possible, to encourage the paper to find a different Editor.
The problem with Oñate’s practice is this: he has engaged in practices that demean and disparage readers. This serves to reduce participation and harm one’s sense of community, not foster it. An Editor should always take the high road and be seen as open and fair to all. Unfortunately, Oñate has not done that, as the following examples illustrate. (If images are too small to read, you can click to enlarge, or just follow the links).
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Hello Davis! We have an exciting opportunity for you TOMORROW (June 9, 2018)! Come out and try your hand at something called 19th century base ball. We play America's pastime with 1864 rules. No gloves (scary)! But, it's an underhand pitch, which makes fielding easier. AND, you may catch the ball off one bounce and still get the striker out! It's a fantastic version of baseball that is perfect for a very wide range of talent. If you're a youngster or an old-timer, a guy or a gal, a seasoned veteran of the modern game or a novice, you're on a very similar level with each other. This is a game that has rules that really level the playing field.
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By Tom Owczarzak
OK, think a few people will get this one right about this time.
I went to see my niece graduate last night. And not just graduate – give the Valedictorian Speech.
Yeah, cuz she is a serious badass.
Graduation is a heady experience. The excitement of the students, the charge in the air, the super proud families.
Summer just minutes away.
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By Colin Walsh
Davis has a tradition that at the end of every City Election, all parties involved work together to sweep up the campaign signs from all corners of the City. It is a refreshing idea that no matter how hard fought the campaigns may be, the day after the election they all work together to clean up the town and signs are returned to the campaign from whence they came.
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Having taken a day off to reflect, here are some of my thoughts about the election just completed.
First and foremost, let me assure everyone that the Davisite will continue! Some have speculated that this blog was created just to promote Nishi. That was never the case and time will show that to be true. If there have been a lot of articles about Nishi, that was because many of our current authors (myself included) were very engaged in that issue. The Davisite was always intended to be a blog by and for Davisites, which means that our content will always reflect our authors.
So, now is a good time to reissue a call for authors: send us your thoughts, be they political or not, artistic or not, funny or not. You can be a regular author, or send us something from time to time, or maybe just once – long or short, it doesn't matter. (But remember that on the Internet, most people don't want to read things that are very long!). The sidebar contains our contact info and comment policy, the latter of which serves as guidelines for authors as well.
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Frankly, it still boggles my mind that the Nishi developers refused to allow air quality testing at their proposed development site. They had about all the benefits you can imagine, an ideal situation in that a famous UC Davis professor with the right equipment to do air quality monitoring offered to do the testing in a fair and systematic way (you can call it "scientific") in order to determine the unique patterns of air quality at a site that is below grade, adjacent to a very busy highway and wedged in by the railroad tracks. BUT THE DEVELOPERS SAID "NO!!!!".
WOW! A big "NO!!!!" to scientific testing.
Had they asked the Yolo County Epidemiologist like I did whether or not this kind of testing was advisable from a public health perspective, here is what they would have heard (communication from Dr. Dabritz:
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By B. & D. Lindeman
As if 12 years of Reisig in the D.A.'s office isn't enough of a reason for a change in leadership. (hasn't anyone ever heard of the good idea of term limits?) But it's his latest campaign flyer that I received in the mail (4th one!) that compels me to write. Instead of promoting the supposed merits of the Reisig reign, it is mostly devoted to maligning the character of the man running against him: Dean Johansson! I'd say that kind of below-the-belt tactic maligns Reisig's character. It reminds me of the tactics of someone we all know who lives in the current White House.
Thus, if I had an overly simple rhyming campaign slogan, it might be, "Reisig is mean, so vote for Dean"! (maybe "overly aggressive" would be kinder but it doesn't rhyme). Fact: (not fake news, folks): Jeff Reisig, our Yolo County DA, brings more cases to jury trial per capita than any other DA in the state! That means that Reisig's office conducts more felony trials than counties that have a much higher population than ours. Yolo cannot be that much more crime ridden! This fact alone is a co$tly (for taxpayers) and valid reason for a change in D.A. leadership.
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