City News

The Davis City Council is planning to cut $2.5 million from its budget. A city council meeting on Sept. 27 held a budget workshop that addressed unfunded liabilities and how the city may execute the cut.

That bytes; Control your balls; UFC: Davis; Coach Motel; Your voice is a crime.

In a back alley warehouse on Olive Drive, right along a fence that borders the train tracks, with a guitar case against a wall, containers stacked on shelves and mason jars scattered everywhere, resides Pepper Peddler Coffee.

The Davis Bicycle Parade, otherwise known as the World’s Greatest Bicycle Parade, took place on Sunday at 10:02 AM. A four-mile long route, the parade began in front of the Davis Odd Fellows Hall on 415 Second St. in downtown Davis.

Brett Lee, 46, announced his candidacy for June 2012 Davis City Council election on Saturday morning at the U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame. Lee is an industrial engineer and business planner.

The Davis Police Department was dispatched to 945 J Street for a dead body, on Saturday. The officers found a 42-year-old deceased male on his bedroom floor. The victim’s name is being withheld pending positive identification by the Yolo County Coroner’s Office.

The Davis City Council is holding off until next year to decide the fate of the Davis Area Cooperative Housing Association (DACHA), one of the several cooperative groups in the area.

Netflix, the company credited with changing the way we rent movies, is undergoing some growing pains, and much like any adolescent, the company is alienating those closest to it.

Gov. Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 155 into law on Sept. 23. The bill states that online retailers, such as Amazon.com, will have until July 31, 2012 to lobby for a federal sales tax standard.

U.S. News & World Report released its 2012 edition of Best Colleges, with UC Davis moving up one space from last year, ranking 38 in the magazine’s National Universities section.

‘Z’s on C; Return to Sender; Jacob?; School spirit; Very juvenile; Get off my lawn.

During a tense water board meeting at the beginning of the month, the Davis City Council approved raking up water costs for Davis residents to fund an alternative water supply. Many residents oppose any increase in the cost of water, but the city believes that it will be the best decision long term.