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After a student drops $150 for one textbook, it may be frustrating to see the front cover author match the professor’s name on the class syllabus. Yet, faculty are not picking up a big tab from book purchases. A USA Today article from earlier this month highlighted George Mason University in Washington, D.C. as a school where students are upset professors are cashing in on students through published texts. Though at UC Davis – and nationwide – there is myth surrounding professor-authored textbooks and the money they make.

With California’s $20 billion deficit, additional fees are not only being imposed on schools, but on traffic fines as well. SB 1407 was signed into law in 2008 through the California State Legislature, raising the fees for court filings statewide, which includes parking tickets, traffic violations and attending traffic school. Since January 2010, new fines on traffic violations took effect through SB 1407. For instance, one added change is a $35 “conviction assessment” on traffic fines.

The city of Davis’ June ballot will include Measure Q, which would continue the one-half cent sales tax that has been in effect since 2004.

Daniel Watts may have a unique topic for his constitutional law class essay: a paper about how he changed the Davis municipal code.

Lines filed out of the front entrance of G Street’s Woodstock’s Pizza from noon until closing time as the restaurant seated at full capacity the entire day, said Woodstock’s Manager Bobby Fields.

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This spring, the state government says tax relief is coming to Californians.

Picnic Day 2010 may have come and gone, but the cups, cans, fliers, candy wrappers and other remnants of the day stuck around until cleanup efforts came to the rescue.

The Yolo County District Attorney’s Office is faced with a proposed budget cut from the County Board of Supervisors of approximately $2 million from a $12 million budget.

Off-campus students leaving their homes next Sunday may run into the fundraising Breakaway from Cancer bike ride that will begin on a temporarily closed-off Russell Boulevard at 7:30 a.m. April 25. Organized by the Amgen-founded Breakaway from Cancer initiative, the ride aims to raise awareness about the resources available to those afflicted with cancer. The Breakaway ride consists of the Stage-2 route of the Amgen Tour of California, a 114-mile cycling trek that begins on Davis’ Russell Boulevard and concludes in Santa Rosa. Anyone who pays the entry fee can participate.

Six core marchers organized by the California Federation of Teachers will be completing their trek from Bakersfield to the capitol in an effort to bring attention to California’s education crisis. The march will culminate in Sacramento on April 21.

Davis has been long recognized as a bicycle friendly town, so the opening of an attraction all things bicycle is no surprise. After moving to Davis from Somerville, New Jersey in November 2009, the United States Bicycling Hall of Fame has since merged with the California Bicycle Museum and designed a new logo. On Saturday, Apr. 24 at 11:30 a.m. the museum will officially open its doors with a ribbon cutting ceremony.