City News

The eradication of the Light Brown Apple Moth (LBAM) will soon be underway later this month. The plan is to deploy twist tie traps throughout Davis, in hopes of protecting interests of the Yolo County Agriculture Industry. Some leading scientists, however, disapprove.

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again – the old adage goes. This is what Senator Leland Yee (D-San Francisco) is doing for two of his bills that were vetoed last fall. As 2010 begins, Yee is reintroducing the two bills with some changes.

Despite the plethora of budget cuts and economic crises California has seen recently, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is optimistic about his final year in office.

The Yolo County board of supervisors voiced their support of the non-partisan reform organization California Forward. The group aims to address the fiscal and governmental issues affecting California by refocusing the way the state is run. California Forward’s stated mission is to “improve the quality of life for all Californians by creating more responsive, representative and cost-effective government.”

A lawsuit filed Dec. 1, 2009 said Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson’s strong-mayor proposal should be taken off the June 2010 ballot because it violates the state constitution.

Only 15 miles west of Davis, the small city of Winters is ready for their moment in the spotlight.

While hunger is a worldwide problem, it has gone largely unmitigated in our own backyard.

A few days into the holiday break, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recalled 800,000 doses of H1N1 flu vaccine that had been distributed throughout the nation, according to a Yolo County Health Department press release.

Although the crime of the decade did not occur in Davis, some crime took place in Davis in the past year. The Davis Police Department released the most recent Crime Quarterly Summary, which consists of cases from July to November of 2009.

A new resolution could save renters money in the city of Davis beginning as early as September 2010.

THURSDAY

Golf champion Tiger Woods’ recent indiscretions have provided the media with plenty of bulletins. They also gave two UC Davis professors inspiration for a study that found the scandal has cost Woods’ sponsors’ shareholders $12 billion.