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Contention remains over the merit of Proposition 16 on California’s June ballot. Some say it’s a beneficial constitutional amendment for the majority of electricity consumers, while others call it a special interest campaign for a large corporation.

Californians will face a number of choices on the June 8 ballot. One is Proposition 15, an initiative which, if enacted, will impose fees on registered lobbyists in California and use the additional revenue to provide funding for political campaigns in the state. Initially sponsored by Sen. Loni Hancock (D-Oakland), the proposal launches a pilot program that will only apply to political campaigns for the Office of Secretary of State in 2014 and 2018. Hancock said the people of California will benefit from Prop. 15 as well as those considering running for secretary of state who do not want to spend years of their life “dialing for dollars.”

With the passage of the health care reform bill come changes that boost funding for higher education. The Education Reconciliation: Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act, found within the health care bill, eliminates the current practice of providing federal subsidies to private student loans, cutting out banks as the middleman. Instead, the government will supply loans to students directly.

It may save paper, but that online textbook may be lowering students’ grades. In an Arizona State University study, “To Scroll or Not to Scroll: Scrolling, Working Memory Capacity, and Comprehending Complex Texts,” co-author Christopher Sanchez, assistant professor of applied psychology at ASU, found that certain students are not retaining as much information when scrolling through online documents.

From sixth-graders to high school seniors, many Davis students played for their own cause on March 27.

Teenagers may be night owls, but according to new research by a UC San Diego assistant professor, those hours out of bed each night may be turning more teens into weed users.

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Efforts to reform California’s primary election system have been resuscitated with Sen. Abel Maldonado’s (R-Santa Maria) Proposition 14, which will appear on the June 8 ballot.

It’s not every day that prominent local celebrities strut their stuff on the runway. Local businesses donated fashions that were featured in the Yolo County Children’s Alliance (YCAA) Celebrity Fashion Show, kicking off a series of events for Child Abuse Prevention Month. The March 31 show raised money for victims of child abuse.

100405_ci_healthbill.cHeadline: Students feel impact of Obama’s health care reformLayercake: Young adults weigh in on the good, bad By SASHA LEKACHAggie Associate Editor Yolo County Health Officer Dr. Joseph Iser[cq] can’t see much a UC Davis student could find problematic in the recently signed health care reform. The law, which passed this March, specifically targets younger […]

The Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP) was unsuccessful in its effort to repeal the Aid Elimination Penalty by March 30 when Congress passed the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act (SAFRA). The penalty targets students convicted of drug possession offenses. Currently, federal law revokes federal financial aid such as Pell Grants and the Free Application for Federal Student Aid from students who have any drug related offences while receiving aid.

For over a month the Davis Food Co-op has been at the center of controversy over activists’ efforts to boycott Israeli products at the grocery store on 620 G St.