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On Friday, the Beehive Design Collective, a volunteer activist group dedicated to “cross-pollinating the grassroots,” will be showing their design pieces at Delta of Venus Cafe. The California-wide tour titled “Sucked Dry: Examining Drought and Privatization from Mesoamérica to California” aims to bring awareness to the current drought. According to the collective’s website, they hope […]

On Oct.7 City Council approved a plan for the East Covell Corridor. The plan will help to improve traffic flow, increase safety for cyclists and pedestrians and adapt for the increase in population from The Cannery, the housing and business development currently under construction off of East Covell. Development of the East Covell Corridor Plan […]

Governor Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill 967, nationally known as the Yes Means Yes bill, into action Sept. 28. The Yes Means Yes bill aims to provide support for victims of sexual abuse on college campuses by requiring institutions of higher education in California to define affirmative consent as a verbal “yes” rather than the […]

Starting July 1, 2015, the Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act of 2014 will ensure that all Californians employed for 30 days or more will receive paid sick days. Six and a half million workers in California are currently not allotted paid sick days. The bill entitles employees to one paid sick hour for every 30 […]

The fifth annual Tour de Cluck Bicycle Coop Crawl took place on Saturday, May 24. This collaboration of Davis Farm to School, Yolo Farm to Fork and other sponsors and participating businesses bring a chicken-centered community activity to the City of Davis. The City of Davis is well-known for its flat ground that is suitable […]

University of California (UC) Regents published a report on May 15 addressing a plan to ease the transferring process from California community college students into the UC system. This report followed UC President Janet Napolitano’s November 2014 address to UC Regents regarding upcoming plans for the UC system. “The University [UC system] must reexamine how […]

In the past two months, the Nugget Markets and Davis Farm to School and Yolo Farm to Fork have been awarding schools with ‘stellar garden programs’ across Yolo County. These organizations have been working to provide everything from workshops, grants for gardens in schools and supplies to supplement school-based garden learning. The Nugget Markets is […]

On June 3, the City of Davis will be holding its General Municipal and Special Elections. Registered voters will be electing two seats for Davis City Council along with voting on two measures — Measure O and Measure P. Measure O Approving Measure O would mean re-authorizing and extending the current transactions and use tax […]

The California Strawberry Commission (CSC) filed a lawsuit against UC Davis in fall 2013 with the belief that UC Davis has intentions of ending its strawberry breeding program. The strawberry breeding program is a program that has, for decades, researched and developed new varieties of strawberries. Because of its existence, California strawberry growers can buy […]

U.S. college students in their young adult years are responsible for historically low voter participation rates, averaging between 21 and 25 percent turnout in the last 35 years, according to a study by the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE). UC Davis students are no exception to this statistic and […]

This year, Celebrate Davis! 2014 was held in Community Park on F Street on May 15. Celebrate Davis! is an annual, free, community-wide festival organized by the Davis Chamber of Commerce. It is a family-oriented conglomeration of picnicking, a music festival, food booths and a Davis business expo. “Celebrate Davis! is truly a community celebration […]

5/12 #personal On Valdora Street, somebody was staying at her boyfriend’s house when one of his housemates recorded her conversation with her boyfriend and posted it on Tumblr. Third time’s a charm A drunk guy on San Marino Drive was riding his bike and fell off of it three times. 5/14 Spa treatment A person […]