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Biking around Davis,many students may not be affected by gasoline prices,but those driving and running businesses aroundCalifornia are. Gas pricesin Californiahavetumbled from an all-time high of$4.59in June to an average of$2.37currently,according to the California Energy Commission.Though the economy is taking a toll on businesses,the drop in gas prices has been a silver lining for some.

The Davis City Council will meettonightat6:30p.m.in the Community Chambers at23Russell Blvd. The following are descriptions of selected agenda items the council will discuss at the meeting.To view the entire agenda and associated staff reports,visit cityofdavis.org.

THURSDAY Get your bike out of the gutter A bike was found in a drainage ditch onMace Boulevard.

Yolo County Probation’s juvenile program lost nearly$1million in funding this year due to state budget cuts,a development that has probation officials worried about public safety. The cuts will have a serious impact on juvenile offenders,said chief probation officer Don Meyer. “That’s about38percent of our budget,” Meyer said.

Environmental consciousness was the theme of the2008Regional Green Summit in Woodland onSaturday. The summit was held at the Woodland Community and Senior Center and lasted all day.It featured over40panelist speakers on topics ranging from environmental justice to water quality.Several of the panelists and moderators were members of UC Davis research units.

A large and colorful crowd gathered in downtown Sacramento on Saturday morning to rally for marriage equality for gays and lesbians. Roughly1,500people took over Cesar Chavez Park across from Sacramento City Hall for a rally and demonstration led by Equality Action Now,a grassroots gay rights group in Sacramento.Many brought homemade signs with slogans like “Equal treatment under the law” and “Protect marriage– ban divorce.“

On Dec. 31, the Davis Indoor Sports Center, better known as DISC, will close its doors for good. The owners of the building where the DISC is located – Sam, Gwen and Jeff Harrison – have struggled to keep its doors open since interest began to waver in 2001.

Gang members convicted in attack Four West Sacramento gang members are facing sentences of up to15years after being found guilty of a number of crimesThursday. The men were convicted of crimes related to an incident in April2006when they attacked the engineer and conductor of an Amtrak Capitol Corridor train.

FRIDAY At least he has good taste An individual came into a store on Anderson Road, took a bottle of Southern Comfort and then left the store.

It was a long ride, but she made it. Davis resident and current Yolo County supervisor Mariko Yamada won the race for California’s 8th Assembly District in last week’s election. The district includes portions of Solano and Yolo counties and Benicia, Davis, Dixon, Fairfield, Rio Vista, Suisun City, Vacaville, West Sacramento, Winters and Woodland.

The average price in California for regular gasoline has fallen to$2.33,which is44.8cents lower thantwoweeks ago and over$2lower than California’s all-time high set in June of this year at$4.588,according to the California Energy Commission. Over the last month prices have sunk92cents in California and$1.00nationally to an average of$2.20,according to a survey released Tuesday by the motorist group AAA.

Several recent studies have shown that university students may not be as vulnerable toliberal indoctrination as some would have you believe. In the politicized atmosphere of the recent elections,some have raised concern that liberalism in universities has caused discrimination against conservative professors and ideas andcreated a disproportionately liberal student body.