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UCD mum on Healthy Davis Together funding Staff say anonymous donor bankrolled project By Caleb Hampton Enterprise staff writer
Check out Davis native Brent Pella, center, this summer on MTV’s “Wild N’ Out.”
ten as soon as I was in Kobe’s presence,” Pella explained Kobe’s influence on his drive. “I would watch Kobe work on these tiny fundamentals for hours, and that inspired me in comedy. I would go back to the open mic, figure out a different word or how to help people relate to the story that you’re telling, maybe that’ll work
On July 1, UC Davis denied a public records request The Davis Enterprise filed seeking internal documents that might reveal how the Healthy Davis Together public health project was funded. Campus officials argued that disclosing the records would go against the public interest. In September 2020, UC Davis and the city of Davis established HDT to protect the health of the community during the COVID-19 pandemic by making rapid saliva-based PCR testing widely available and implementing other public health interventions. The project, which ended in June, earned nationwide acclaim and news coverage, with The New York Times calling it “the most ambitious program of its type in the country.” UC Davis and HDT publicized many aspects of the project so that other communities could replicate it. The HDT website features a series of
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Davis funnyman lands on MTV By Aaron Geerts Enterprise staff writer When the world raises calamity, Davis native, Brent Pella, calls it with comedy. As a walking, talking source of laughter void of fear, it’s no wonder his comedic career path has led him from Davis to the nationally syndicated show on MTV called “Wild n’ Out.” It all began when Pella was
still a Blue Devil at Davis High School. He took a film class and began making silly, short videos with his friends which soon turned into an infatuation with film and content creation. After high school, Pella went on to play collegiate basketball at Santa Cruz. From there, he transferred to UC Santa Barbara for his last two years of college while studying media and film production all the
while. However, it wasn’t until Pella — a lifelong Sacramento Kings fan — became a coach at Kobe Bryant’s basketball camp in Santa Barbara did he develop his bulletproof resolve that’d lead him to his comedic success. “I was a coach at Kobe’s basketball camp for about five years, and any type of competitive edge or inspiring energy I had in me was multiplied by
UC, CSU to offer abortion pills By Mallika Seshadri CalMatters As California’s efforts to enshrine abortion access continue, the University of California and California State University are working to provide medication abortions on all campuses by Jan. 1. So far, none of the Cal State campuses offer medication abortions, and access within the UC system varies from campus to campus. Both university systems, however, say they are on track to implement a law passed in 2019 requiring their student health centers to provide access to the pills. As many as 6,228
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students could seek medication abortions on UC and Cal State campuses each year, once they are available, according to Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health, a research program at the University of California San Francisco. Making medication abortions available on college campuses would likely free up appointments at clinics throughout the state that could then be sought by people living in areas of California where abortion access is limited or in other states where it is now illegal, multiple reproductive health experts and advocates told CalMatters. “Because there is going to
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be this increase in people coming to California, all of the clinics are going to have, you know, additional demand and kind of struggle with capacity,” said Cathren Cohen, a reproductive rights expert at the UCLA Center on Reproductive Health, Law and Policy. “While it’s not necessarily going to help all the people coming from out of state, it’s just generally going to increase the number of abortion providers.” State Sen. Connie Leyva, who authored Senate Bill 24, said its significance could not have been anticipated years ago, before the recent Supreme Court
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Yolo County saw 41% turnout in June election By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer Yolo County saw a 41.7 percent voter turnout for the June primary election, below that seen in the 2018 and 2020 primaries, but still higher than the statewide average. Of the county’s 119,631 registered voters, 49,884 voted in June. During the 2018 primary, just more than 43 percent of voters turned out, and in 2020, more than 55 percent. “Yolo County overall voter turnout continues to trend higher than the statewide average,” said
Jesse Salinas, the county’s assessor/clerk-recorder/ registrar of voters. “Yolo County voter turnout was upwards of 6 percent higher in the 2018 statewide primary, over 8 percent higher in the 2020 presidential primary and thus far reaching over 8.5 percent higher in the most recent 2022 statewide direct primary compared to statewide voter turnout,” Salinas said. With the canvas completed, the final results for local races and measures include:
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