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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.”

As part of the national observance of April as Child Abuse Prevention and Awareness month, the Yolo County Children’s Alliance and Child Abuse Prevention Council (YCCA) is taking measures to prevent infant mortalities.

The long-awaited United States Bicycling Hall of Fame opened in Davis on Saturday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the museum within Central Park on the corner of Third and B Streets.

THURSDAY: Hotboxing hour

Based on preliminary figures, traffic related deaths in California have hit an all time low in 2009. Although many factors were at work, officials credit increased enforcement and improved driving habits among the public as significant factors behind the improvement. Despite the optimistic reports, law enforcement officials and policymakers say there is still much more room for improvement.