City News

Davis Bicycles! and the Davis Bike Collective hosted Davis City Council candidates last week at Bike Forth downtown to discuss their views on transportation in Davis.

Spring has sprung and so have many new businesses in Davis. From frozen yogurt to clothing stores to restaurants, there are a plethora of local places for Aggies to spend their cash.

Davis residents and businesses were not the only ones to feel the repercussions of this year’s Picnic Day. In the neighboring city of Woodland, an industrial building caught fire and was consumed at night on April 17.

A growing number of public universities graduates will owe over $35,000 in student loans. According to a College Board and Advocacy Center (CBAC) study released on April 26, 12 percent of students who received bachelor’s degrees from public schools during the 2007- 2008 school year left with a $35,000 burden. Seventeen percent of all graduates from private non-profit and for-profit schools incurred the largest amount of debt.

Davis City Council candidates expressed their views regarding environmental concerns in and around Davis at last week’s City Council Environmental Forum. The Sierra Club Yolano Group hosted the discussion.

THURSDAY: It’s like walking through the Quad; Must be the son of a preacher man; Blame Canada

Entrenched in a financial crunch that has necessitated tuition increases and budget cuts, University of California reportedly spent approximately $2 million on bottled water over the past few years, according to the New York Times.

There is an anomaly on Fifth Street: One of the most traveled roads in Davis suddenly becomes one of the most bike-unfriendly between A and L Streets.

California lawmakers advanced legislation on April 20 that would make it illegal for citizens to carry a firearm in public, even if it is unloaded. Currently it is legal in California to openly carry an unloaded gun in public, as well as ammunition.

An group of about 20 community members, city officials and landscape architects gathered to discuss improvements to the north sector of Davis’ Central Park this past week.

With a ballot initiative to legalize marijuana set to appear on California’s November ballot, a recent poll shows that most Americans still oppose legalizing the drug. The Associated Press-CNBC poll, released on Apr. 20, showed that 55 percent of Americans oppose legalizing pot, while 33 percent favor legalization.

Social-media job listings on employment sites are growing at over 1,300 percent per annum. Andres Kaplan and Michael Haenlein, authors of “Users of the world, unite! The challenges and opportunities of social media,” featured in Business Horizons, define social media as “a group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0 and that allow the creation and exchange of user-generated content.”