City News

Mayor Joe Krovoza has issued a proclamation designating April 13 to be “We Are All Sikhs” day in Davis. On this day, all members of the Davis community are encouraged to wear turbans to show their support for the Sikh community.

Puff, puff paint; Look who’s talking now; Jackass in the box; Gimme the dough, olive it.

Tonight is the last opportunity to influence the streetscape design project of the two-block area on Third Street, between A and B Street.

The college campus has generally been thought of as a milieu for same-sex sexual experimentation, but according to a recent study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, women with bachelor’s degrees are less likely to have same-sex experiences than women who did not finish high school.

Downtown Davis will be a bit noisy today. Contractors are grinding the asphalt on Second Street, from B to G Street and the streets will be closed to traffic. Parts of E Street, from Second to Third Street, will also be worked on. Construction is expected to last all of today and maybe tomorrow, though the streets will be open to traffic starting in the early evening.

Forever 21 is finally open. The women’s apparel store, located in the University Mall, held its grand-opening on Saturday morning, provoking college and middle school students alike to sleep outside of the store in anticipation. The store offered gift cards, ranging from $10 to $210, to the first 200 visitors.

Where did the owners of the new Inconvenient Store on B Street come up with its name?

California State University (CSU) officials are examining the possibility of cutting enrollment by 10,000 students, beginning with the upcoming 2011-2012 academic year.

U.S. poison control centers all over the nation are receiving reports of sickness in people taking the non-prescription drug potassium iodide (KI) to ward off possible internal contamination from radioactive waste.

Tired of your old toilet? Looking for a way to save on your water bill? Look no further than the new toilet rebate program, approved by the Davis City Council earlier this month. The program would provide a rebate for the purchase and installation of a high-efficiency toilet, in an effort to decrease water consumption. To be eligible for the program, residents must live in a pre-1993 single family home with an old toilet that uses 3.5 gallons per flush (gpf) or more.

FRIDAY: Extra-textory perception; Snap, crackle, crash

At a Congressional hearing earlier this month, higher education officials urged lawmakers to delay the planned July 1 implementation of new U.S. Department of Education regulations. These regulations would expand state authorization requirements and establish a federal definition of “credit hour.”