City News

The Education Abroad Center (EAC) cancelled the spring Japanese Language and Culture program in response to the earthquake in Japan on March 11. Twenty-seven students were enrolled in the program, which would have started in Kyoto, Japan last Saturday.

The federal government wants to open a drug rehabilitation facility for Native American teens. The center would occupy 12 acres of American Indian land, near Deganawidah-Quetzalcoatl University, locally known as D-Q University.

The Ho Patrol, the Ohio Street Watch Dogs and the Kentucky Street Watch Owls are three of Vallejo’s neighborhood watch groups that have one thing in common.

Starting this week, the Wednesday Davis Farmers Market will be accepting Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards. The Saturday market started accepting the card on Jan. 8.

Feminists of Davis rejoice! The Davis Feminist Film Festival is back for its sixth year.

A Gallup poll last week revealed California as having the third worst job market in 2010, just behind Nevada and New Jersey. This is down two spots from 2009.

An arrest was made for the rape of a UC Davis student, after two years of investigation.

A recent report by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education surveyed 390 colleges and universities and found that 67 percent of these schools maintain policies that seriously infringe upon students’ free speech rights. This is down from 71 percent in 2010.

Plumber bummer; Nobody noticed?; Efficient; Rocket Power; Dun Dun DUN; Fast food; Follow the prints.

The Davis City Council is moving to finance several city projects that will lose funding if Gov. Jerry Brown implements his proposal to dissolve city redevelopment agencies.

The ASUCD Coffee House has started charging $.30 to add tomatoes to a deli sandwich. It has also stopped offering tomatoes with salads at Chopstix and has eliminated production of pico de gallo salsa at the TxMx Grill.

Sacramento city council will be reconsidering its recently approved \