Across California’s public colleges and universities, one nearly universal admissions factor — first-generation status — is still up to debate because no one can agree how to define it.
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WOODLAND — Yolo County announced this week that it will receive a grant of $4.16 million from the California State Transportation Agency for the environmental and design elements of the County Road 32A Crossing Relocation and Grade Separation Project. This project aims to enhance safety, improve
transportation efficiency and boost economic growth in our region, according to the county.
The County Road 32A Crossing Relocation and Grade Separation Project will address the existing crossing with the Union Pacific Railroad Martinez Subdivision. Currently, the crossing's geometry poses safety and operational challenges, as it intersects with a rail line that
A Family Features syndicated article headlined “Cooking with gas” on the July 5 Living page and a letter to the editor that questions the “uncertainty in science” behind climate change both prompted discussions with UC Davis College of Biological Sciences Associate Professor and Fossil-Free UCD climate activist
Mark Huising on the media’s responsibility covering dis- and misinformation in the climate crisis.
Meanwhile, on Thursday, Covering Climate Now held a webinar for journalists on Thursday titled “The Ever-Shifting Landscape of Climate Misinformation.” It also discussed disinformation, in which the intent of disseminating false
carries freight and passenger trains daily. By relocating and grade-separating the crossing, the county will “significantly” reduce conflicts between trains and those using the roadway.
“This project is a top priority for Yolo County,” Yolo County Supervisor Jim Provenza said. “Having a grade-separated railroad crossing will significantly reduce the danger posed to
cyclists, cars, and trains traveling on Road 32A. These improvements will not only benefit our local commuters but also strengthen our regional economic competitiveness.”
Union Pacific has pushed for change for years, filing an application with the California Public Utilities Commission in
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information is purposeful and not accidental.
As the webinar description explains, it is not only the “journalists’ job to help the public sort fact from fiction, but also, no journalist wants to find themselves an unwitting accomplice to a disinformation campaign.”
The Family Features story pictures a cook chopping vegetables to add to a pan on his gas-powered stove with the caption: “Be safe to have the best gas-cooktop experience.”
The article argues that a clean lifestyle could be enhanced by “cooking with an environmentally friendly, clean energy source like propane” and that “gas-powered cooktops are preferred by 96% of professional chefs, including nutritionist and chef Dean Sheremet of ‘My Kitchen
Rules,’ who partnered with the Propane Education & Research Council (PERC) to educate homeowners on the benefits of cooking with gas.”
The letter to the editor ran with the subhead, “Climate Models Vary” and questions the uncertainty in the science of climate models, claiming they vary by as much as 400 percent. The author argues that not only is the expectation “to not believe as climate skeptics do that global warming isn’t true” but also not “hold so much as a quiet reservation or doubt.”
Regarding the “Cooking with gas” article, Huising says, “calling propane ‘environmentally friendly’ by the PERC spokesperson does of course not make it so.
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The phrase “first-generation college student” is about the education level of a students’ parents and it’s a key predictor of that student’s success in school. For years, California schools have used first-generation college status as a means to boost campus diversity, especially after voters banned affirmative action in 1996. Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 29 decision to end raceconscious admissions nationwide, the term is top of mind.
It’s more than semantics: For those who lack support from family to navigate college, the term “first generation” encompasses an experience, a part of their identity, and in some cases, access to targeted state and federal services. In the Inland Empire, first-generation students can receive thousands of dollars worth of tutoring and support through high school and college — if they meet a certain definition.
But these contradicting definitions leave some students unsure what first generation means and how they should proceed.
The University of California boasts a higher percentage of first-generation students compared to the community college system, which uses a more restrictive definition of the term. The UC system defines a firstgeneration student as anyone whose parents did not receive a bachelor’s degree or equivalent, while the California Community College Chancellor’s Office defines it as any student whose parents never attended college at all.
Cal State, meanwhile, includes numerous definitions on its website. In one scenario, 31% of CSU students are considered first generation; according to another definition, 52% are.
It’s a national problem. In one 2018 study, researchers surveyed
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Ireceived a three-page email from my good friend Stephen J. Adler, who is chairman of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press based in Washington, D.C.
As a freedom-loving reporter/ columnist/night typist for a newspaper that has been in existence through parts of three centuries, I was immediately interested in what Stephen had to say.
I honestly had never heard of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, but it was heartening to know that such a committee exists.
According to one highly reliable source, “The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press is a nonprofit organization that provides pro bono legal services and resources to and on behalf of journalists.”
Pro Bono, of course, is Sonny Bono’s younger brother who will do just about anything for free. If you need your lawn mowed or the dishes washed or the laundry folded, Pro is your guy.
“Dear Bob,” Stephen’s note begins, as much of my correspondence does.
“Recently, we reached out to share some of the new ways we’re making it easier for people like you to make a difference in the fight to protect press freedom and strengthen democracy.”
I’m happy to make a difference, but as I enter the second half of my 100-year contract with The
Davis Enterprise (with an option for 100 more), I can honestly say I have enjoyed tremendous and uninterrupted press freedom in the work that I do.
No individual or government entity has prevented me from writing — or publishing — anything I wish to say. Ever.
The ownership at Fort McNaughton has given me a free hand to express my opinion, with the unwritten understanding that I won’t abuse the privilege.
Oh sure, there were a couple of times in the last 54 years when my editor saved me from myself by objecting to a word I chose to use, but it did nothing to change the content or meaning of what I was trying to say.
A number of years ago there was a murder trial I was covering when a key witness to the crime, while testifying under oath, used a word beginning with F to describe what he had seen in regard to the defendant’s role in the murder. He used the whole word, not an abbreviation.
The presiding Superior Court judge, incredulous at what he had
just heard, repeated the word beginning with F back at the witness for confirmation. The judge used the exact word as well.
I argued that in discussing this key point in the trial in my column, it would be silly to print, inside quote marks, anything but the exact word that was spoken by both the witness and the judge. Both times it was used there were gasps in the packed courtroom and it was clearly the defining moment of the trial.
I lost the argument and we went with a word that begins with F, but has an asterisk for the second letter, even though an asterisk is not in the alphabet.
I still thought I was right, but I respected my editor’s decision as well.
Besides, the readers still got the message of what was said in the courtroom and I imagine many of them used the actual word when reading it out loud to family members in the living room.
The only other time I can remember when something I had written was disallowed was when I was running a contest of sorts — with swell prizes — asking readers to send in their best “farm” jokes. UC Davis, after all, was once known as the University Farm and its students are known as “Aggies,” even if they’re majoring in Political Science.
One reader, who also happened to be a beekeeper in the area,
Woodland police responded to a pair of robberies last week, one of which resulted in the arrest of a Davis resident.
Officers continue to seek a suspect in a Tuesday night robbery in which a woman was robbed of her purse at knifepoint around 9:40 p.m. in the 200 block of Elm Street, Sgt. Richard Towle said.
The suspect, who fled the scene on a bike, was described only as a white male adult wearing a white tank top and shorts. Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact the Woodland Police Department at 530661-7800.
A second robbery occurred at noon Wednesday in the 600 block of Main Street, where the suspect stole a motorcycle before allegedly robbing the nearby Tri Counties Bank, according to Towle.
“The male suspect returned to the scene where the motorcycle was stolen and was detained by two citizens,” Towle said.
The suspect, Joshua James Riddle, 42, of Davis, was booked into the Yolo County Jail on charges of vehicle theft, hit and run and robbery, Towle said.
— Reach Lauren Keene at lkeene@ davisenterprise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @laurenkeene.
asked “What does a bee do with its stinger at night?”
The answer was deemed not fit for a family newspaper and the whole joke was eliminated from the contest and no swell prize was awarded to the kind beekeeper who had submitted it.
Turns out that was a good thing, because as I learned in Beekeeping 101 at that same University Farm, a male bee does not have a stinger. Again, being censored saved me from public embarrassment and made the newspaper safe for parents to read to their children at bedtime.
Occasionally, attorneys representing politicians will demand a retraction of something I said, the most memorable being when I had written that a certain quirky and lovable Davis mayor was actually from Mars.
Insisting that the reference to Mars as the mayor’s birthplace be retracted, her attorney cited the landmark press freedom case, “NY Times v. Sullivan.”
I noted, however, that this attorney had a practice in “Aviation Law,” which made me wonder that if the mayor wasn’t from Mars why would she seek out an aviation lawyer to defend her honor.
Quoting “NY Times v. Sullivan” back at her attorney, I noted that it was well established in libel law that “truth is an absolute defense.” Game, set, match.
— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.
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WOODLAND — The U.S. National Weather Service in Sacramento has issued an excessive heat warning for Yolo County from 11 a.m. Saturday, July 15, and lasting until 11 p.m. Sunday, July 16. Temperatures are expected to rise significantly in the coming days, posing potential health risks to residents.
The county aims to ensure that residents stay safe and cool during this scorching period.
To ensure the well-being of the community, Yolo County, in collaboration with its partners, has taken proactive measures to provide relief and support during this heat wave. The county encourages all residents to stay informed and take necessary precautions by following the guidelines outlined below:
n Stay Informed: Stay updated on the latest weather conditions and warnings by visiting the Yolo County Office of Emergency Services
website at yolocounty.org/ OES and monitoring local news channels.
n Find Cooling Locations: Yolo County has established various Places to Cool Down across the region. A comprehensive GIS map with an updated list of cooling locations can be accessed at yolocounty. org/cooldownyolo. These designated areas are available to residents seeking shelter from the extreme heat.
n Protect Against Fire Hazards: The dry and hot weather conditions increase the risk of fire hazards. Exercise caution when near dry fuels and refrain from using equipment that may cause sparks, such as lawn mowers or equipment with chains. Help prevent wildfires by staying vigilant and reporting any signs of fire immediately to local authorities.
n Prepare for Power Outages: The excessive heat may strain the energy grid, leading to potential
power outages. Prepare in advance by visiting PG&E's website at safetyactioncenter.pge.com/articles/11tips-prepare-power-outage for tips on how to prepare for outages. Stay tuned to Yolo County's social media channels for any updates regarding flex alerts or power usage reduction announcements from the California Independent System Operator.
Yolo County’s Office of Emergency Services has partnered with Yolobus to provide rides this weekend. Yolobus will offer free services from Friday through Sunday as part of the county's efforts to tackle the excessive heat.
n County staff are committed to your well-being and the well-being of our community,” a news release said. “Together, let's stay cool, stay informed, and support one another during this intense heatwave.”
To beat the heat, Yolo County reminds residents:
n Never leave children or pets unattended in vehicles.
n Cover windows that receive direct sunlight to reduce heat indoors.
n Check on individuals without air conditioning, especially those living alone.
n Seek shade, avoid outdoor activities, and spend time in air-conditioned public buildings during the hottest parts of the day.
n Stay hydrated, eat well-balanced meals, limit alcohol intake, and consult a physician before taking salt tablets.
n Ensure pets have access to plenty of water and keep them indoors.
n Dress in lightweight, light-colored clothing to stay cool.
n Apply sunscreen with SPF 15 or higher and wear wide-brimmed hats for maximum sun protection. For immediate assistance in locating nearby cooling centers, residents can dial Yolo 2-1-1. Stay connected with Yolo County's safety alert messages by following us on Nextdoor, Facebook, and Twitter.
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The Yolo County Board of Supervisors highlights the work of the Probation Department by declaring July 16-22, 2023, as Probation Services Week.
Probation professionals play a unique and essential role in our justice system and our communities. Probation is focused on helping justice-involved individuals transition out of the system permanently through transformative and evidence-based rehabilitation.
They are trained experts, prepared to manage trauma and the other needs of justice-involved individuals, safely supervising them and connecting them to programs and services
necessary for their success.
Probation departments are a connector in the justice system, bridging gaps and maximizing the resources available within the courts, local governments, law enforcement, social services, behavioral health, schools, crime survivor organizations, nonprofit organizations and the community, all in an effort to reduce recidivism by carefully balancing direct human services and research-based deterrents and interventions.
While holding individuals accountable, the Yolo County Probation Department firmly believes in the potential for positive change and second chances.
Through evidence-based
practice and the benefit of collaborations with other law and justice agencies and health and human services providers throughout Yolo County, informed case plans are tailored to meet each individual’s needs and goals, helping equip them with the tools necessary to be successful in society.
“Our Probation Department demonstrates a strong commitment to the well-being and rehabilitation of individuals under its supervision and care,” Yolo County Board of Supervisors Chair Oscar Villegas said. “Through ongoing collaboration, innovation and a deep-rooted belief in the potential for positive change, the department continues to make significant strides in building a
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The “Welcome to Davis” sign, which greets locals and visitors as they travel along Richards Boulevard into downtown Davis, recently got a fresh new look.
It had been neglected for a number of years, prompting the Davis Odd Fellows Lodge to approach the city with a proposal to take over its management.
After reaching an agreement with city officials, the Odd Fellows formed a Welcome Sign Committee dedicated to the sign’s maintenance as well as sales and marketing. Members include Larry Guenther, Brian Horsfield, Marcus Marino, Dave Rosenberg, Scott Schiller, Greg Tanner and Aaron Wedra.
Last month, members of the maintenance subcommittee erected scaffolding around the sign, removed all the 30-inch medallions — some of which were outdated — wire-brushed the painted surfaces and repainted them before returning them to the sign.
The sign currently features seven organizations’ medallions, with room for up to five more.
Any organization wishing to add their logo to the
Welcome Sign may contact the Odd Fellows’ Dave Rosenberg at daverose@ jps.net. Final decisions will be made by the city of Davis, based on input from the Odd Fellows.
stronger and safer community.”
The men and women of the Yolo County Probation Department are committed to our mission of fostering behavioral change to ensure public safety, with the vision of improved lives and safe communities,” Yolo County Chief Probation Officer Dan Fruchtenicht said.
“With a holistic approach that emphasizes support, guidance and supervision, the department is successfully transforming lives and creating a safer community for all.”
Ted Fontaine will lead a quartet of seasoned musicians at the Village Homes Performers’ Circle, Tuesday July 25, in Davis. The featured performers are John Kraft, drums and vocals; Ted Fontaine, guitar and vocals; Lola Kraft, bass and vocals; and Barbara Mills, vocals. With a focus on three and four-part harmonies, they will sing classic rock and pop, 60s rhythm and blues, a few original songs by Fontaine, and a smattering of folk and country.
The Village Homes Performers’ Circle is a free event that welcomes performers of all levels as well as audience members who simply come to enjoy
the performances. No tickets or reservations are required. It is held the fourth Tuesday of each month, except December. The event begins with an open mike from 7:15 to 8:15 p.m. and concludes with the featured performance from 8:30 to 9 p.m. Signups begin at 6:45 for the short performances (less than 5 minutes per act). The emcee this month will be George Haver, and the event will be held inside the Village Homes Community Center, 2661 Portage Bay East, Davis.
The audience is encouraged to wear masks in the well-ventilated space. For information visit https:// www.facebook.com/ villagehomesperformers.
Hometown Taiwanese Kitchen closed this month when owners Jean and Steve Lee retired. As I reported earlier, it will be replaced by a restaurant called Outpost Burger. I have details on the concept.
Eats Partners, the ownership group that operates The Burger Saloon in Woodland, plans a counter-service restaurant with moderately priced smash burgers, Casper hot dogs and housemade chili. I spoke Thursday with James Lombardi, who owns The Burger Saloon with CEO Phil Perry, partner Zack Zamzow and chef Chris Lombardi (James’ brother). He said the burgers will be a lot different than those at The Burger Saloon.
“We’re doing onion smashedpatty burgers,” he said. The method is to take a ball of meat topped with chopped raw onions, “and smash the patty and onions really thin. It creates a nice, crispy crust. … We just really like the flavor when it’s all smashed together.”
The restaurant will have a small, focused menu. Items will include chili dogs, chili and bacon/cheddar fries, along with vegan, vegetarian and glutenfree meal options. The smash burgers can be made with Impossible meat, and burgers can be served as bowls (on lettuce without a bun).
Owners of the adjacent Parkside Bar & Lounge took over Hometown’s lease. They subleased the restaurant space to Eats Partners. The Davis bar and restaurant are both at 330 G St.
Parkside’s owners – Jason Ojeda, Bob Simpson and Ernesto Torres – are buddies with The Burger Saloon owners. “It’s gonna be fun to work with friends,” Lombardi said.
They are collaborating on improvements to the shared patio, improving the brick work,
and adding new tables and umbrellas. Even the branding for Outpost fits with Parkside’s national park theme – a rounded trapezoid sign with beige and brown colors that mimic those of the U.S. Forest Service.
Though the businesses are two separate entities, it’s OK if the food from Outpost and drinks from Parkside mingle. “You can bring food into Parkside, and bring beer into Outpost,” he said. Those who order food at the restaurant will receive a text message when it’s ready.
So, when will the restaurant be ready? Optimistically, as early as Sept. 1, Lombardi said. They plan to hire 15-20 people in August and begin training them. If they have enough staff, they hope to open for lunch and dinner, from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily. Check @outpostburger on Instagram for a video of the onion smash burger.
The Chinese restaurant Chengdu Style will close on July 17. Tenant leases at University Mall are ending to make way for a new center. Owner Brixmor Property Group plans to raze the existing mall — as soon as this year — to make room for a new design.
Chengdu Style is at 737 Russell Blvd. The owner was not available on Thursday to answer any questions about the restaurant’s plans.
The new center, called The Davis Collection, will be a single story, with retail, restaurant and
service business spaces. Pre-pandemic proposals for the project included housing and parking but Brixmor later deemed those elements too expensive to pursue. Other U Mall tenants include T&M Bike Shop, EZ Eyebrow, Ohana Hawaiian BBQ, Sesame, The Old Tea House and Subway Trader Joe’s will not be affected. Already, Musette and June & Simple have closed, saying it was too stressful not knowing when they would need to vacate their spots. Both said they will not return, citing the expected increase in rent. Neither have found a new location, though June & Simple is doing well selling jewelry at local shops like The Avid Reader FIT House and The Wardrobe
An anime store is coming to downtown Davis, filling the former Western Feed & Pet Supply space at 407 G St. The store, Akiba HQ, has a sign in the window saying it plans to open this fall.
It appears that this is the first storefront for the Haywardbased online retailer. It sells figurines, model kits, plush toys, trading cards, posters and related anime merchandise at https://www.akibahq.com/. Anime is a popular style of animation that originated in Japan.
The Domino’s Pizza stores in Davis and Woodland are closed — at least temporarily.
In South Davis, the Domino’s at 4120 Chiles Road has been closed all year, although a sign in the window says it’s temporary. The signage has been removed and the phone is disconnected.
The eatery at 2038 Lyndell Terrace has a voicemail message that says it’s closed as it transitions to new ownership.
The Woodland store, at 1370 E. Main St., is listed as tempo-
rarily closed as well.
I left a media inquiry with the Domino’s public relations team on Wednesday but did not hear back before my deadline.
Speaking of pizza, Steve’s Pizza is under new ownership. The city business license lists Rajindez Kaur as the owner of the restaurant at 314 F St.
Signs are up in Davis Commons for Bober Tea & Coffee and Mochi Dough, a co-branded cafe at 500 First St., Suite 5. Work is underway inside.
The store will be the third one in town selling boba tea and mochi doughnuts. All of them are downtown. The other two are Happy Mochi and Mochinut/T% Coffee Tea
There’s a “coming soon” sign up for Casablanca’s replacement: Royal Kabob & Falafel Also a Mediterranean restaurant, it will be at 640 W. Covell Blvd. in Anderson Plaza.
Two Davis residents are opening a distillery in West Sacramento as soon as this fall.
Jackson Temple Distillery’s first release will be its Hornbrook brand of gin and vodka. Owners Andrew and April Donald also plan spirits under the Agave de Codorniz brand. The agave will come from local sources, including Spirited Farms, where the Donalds are partners.
According to a 2021 story by the Sacramento Business Journal, Andrew Donald studied viticulture and enology at UC Davis. He is a former partner at Soga’s restaurant and bar in Davis, before it sold in 2007. He is a former managing editor of Cooking Wild magazine, and worked as the wine and spirits distributor for Young’s Market Co. in Sacramento.
According to the distillery’s
website, it’s named after Donald’s great-great-grandfather Jackson Temple. Temple was a California Supreme Court justice from 1870 until his death in 1902 at age 75.
“We cannot wait to share Hornbrook, Agave de Codorniz, and Jackson Temple with the world,” Donald wrote in a July 6 Facebook post. “Gin season opens Fall of 2023.”
He said they have been working on the project for seven years, and bottles and shipping boxes just arrived at the warehouse, 2540 Boatman Ave. in West Sacramento.
The distillery’s website, https://www.jacksontempledistillery.com/, says it will offer the region an “array of aged and unaged spirits and a state-ofthe-art destination distillery … (that) will create unique and delicious whiskeys, gins, vodkas, agave spirits, and liqueurs while delivering an elevated brand experience both inside the distillery walls and through the portfolio.”
Missed a column? Before messaging me to check the status of a business project, please review my paywall-free Google spreadsheet, which includes hundreds of Davis businesses. It’s at https://bit.ly/DavisBusinesses. The most active tabs are Restaurants Open, Restaurants Closed and Coming Soon. The Enterprise website is also a great way to search for past coverage.
— Wendy Weitzel is a Davis writer who launched this Sunday business column in 2001, when she was The Enterprise’s managing editor. Check for frequent updates on her Comings & Goings Facebook and Instagram accounts. If you know of a business coming or going in the area, email news tips to wendyedit@ gmail.com
Special to The Enterprise Davis Community Meals and Housing executive director Bill Pride has announced he will retire after leading the nonprofit organization for more than 22 years, the last five being years of exponential growth.
“I am humbled by what we, as a community, have accomplished since our founding in 1991, and particularly by what we have done in the last five years,” Pride said in announcing his retirement.
“When it comes to providing shelter and services for the homeless, many communities say, ‘not in my backyard,’” Pride said. “But, here in Davis, together we raised more than $7 million to build a first-of-itskind facility that provides day supportive services, and emergency, transitional, and permanent supportive housing, all under one roof. Together we have created Paul’s Place, a new model for serving the most vulnerable and adding a critically important component to our community’s continuum of care.”
While taking Paul’s Place from inception to construction has been a crown jewel of his time at DCMH, Pride said he is also exceptionally proud of the work that the nonprofit has done over the last 30 years, even under the most challenging of circumstances.
“I am immensely fortunate to have worked with Becky Marigo, Synda Whitmer, and Harmony Scopazzi for more than 15 years,” Pride said.
“Becky, Harmony, Synda, other members of our team, as well as our many volunteers, have a heart and a passion for the most vulnerable among us, and they are uncompromising in their commitment to support individuals and families who are homeless or at-risk of homelessness.
“Even during the worst days of the COVID pandemic, our team showed up to help those who needed us,” Pride said.
Pride was trained as an attorney and worked for
many years representing individuals with mental health issues in the state Department of Corrections. He had developed empathy for those facing personal challenges while growing up, where he saw his father struggle with mental health issues that were the result of being held as a German POW during World War II.
Pride joined DCMH in 1993 as a volunteer at its Saturday meal program, after being invited to serve by a neighbor. In 2001, he became executive director of the organization, which
then had three employees. At the time, DCMH’s work was focused on coordinating Tuesday and Saturday meals programs, and providing shelter and services at a former ranch-style house at 1111 H Street
Today, DCMH has 14 employees and a roster of volunteers who work with about 1,200 individuals and families a year. DCMH operates a cold weather
shelter, street outreach program, and continues to serve meals, now three days a week, in partnership with St. Martin’s Church.
DCMH also owns and operates Paul’s Place, which has a daily resource center, four emergency shelter beds, 10 units of transitional housing and 18 units of permanent supportive housing.
Paul’s Place is DCMH’s third housing project. The nonprofit also has partial
ownership in César Chávez Plaza and Creekside Apartments, where DCMH provides services to formerly homeless individuals and families who now live in the two apartment complexes combined 142 units of permanent supportive housing.
César Chávez Plaza was the first permanent supportive housing complex built in Yolo County specifically for homeless individuals.
And the very term ’natural gas’ has unfortunately made the public consider it to be good, while we know that if we were counting fugitive emissions from distribution and extraction fossil methane is quite possibly as much of pollutant as coal.” Without source information, Huising called the argument in the “Climate Models Vary” letter, “classic climate denialism.” Stating the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an intergovernmental body of the United Nations of nonpartisan scientific experts, in its sixth assessment, reports working groups 1-3 spells out the various emissions scenarios and the modeled consequences for temperature.
The IPCC compiles data across thousands of peerreviewed literature. “Their conclusion, we need to reduce GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions by 50% by 2030 to have a 50% chance to stay within 1.5 degree global average surface temperature warming. We are very far removed from that scenario.”
The Washington Post, in collaboration with the Potsdam, a climate science group, modeled 1,200 different climate scenarios based on IPCC models. Most of the scenarios that arrive at 1.5 degrees by 2100 and go through a high overshoot phase in mid-century that would likely set up catastrophic climate tipping points. Their conclusion: "there are no scenarios left to return to 1.5 by 2100 unless we assume unrealistic parameters for carbon capture and removal, energy demands and methane emissions.”
“Think Canadian wildfires this season that are driven by excessive and prolonged heat, lit by lightning strikes much more common in warm weather that humans cannot humanly extinguish. They will burn until fall, with massive emissions that further drive runaway warming,” says Huising. “Clearly there is no shortage of factual evidence and welldocumented sources that would immediately refute the baseless, unsourced assertion by the letter writer here.”
Another aspect of the misinformation on climate, Huising says, is greenwashing in all its forms, blatant and more insidious, he stated in reference to the Family Features “Cooking with Gas” piece. “In the UC Davis plans to decarbonize we called it Fossil Natural Gas, as a reminder that we are talking about a fracked fossil fuel, not some biological by-product.” A subgroup of the UCD Campus Advisory Committee on Sustainability, which Huising is a member, worked through last summer to write a Fossil Fuel Free Pathway Plan, building on the campus’s old steambased district heating system.
Sandra Steingraber, a senior scientist with the Science and Environmental Health Network, wrote “Gas Stoves: The Fracking Tailpipe in Your Kitchen,” an article published Jan. 19 “about the long-standing evidence that gas stoves harm children and why so many of us persist in liking them anyway.”
Steingraber writes that gas stoves were first developed commercially in the 1880s, and that gas utilities
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October 2017 seeking to move, alter or close the crossing. The railroad argued that the road configuration at the location — where Road 32A and a bike path meet Road 105 — is the primary cause of accidents.
Road 32A runs parallel to I-80 on the freeway’s north side, connecting Mace Boulevard to the Yolo Causeway. But at the Road 105 intersection, drivers traveling in either direction on the frontage road must make a right turn, cross the railroad tracks, then make a left turn to continue along.
Union Pacific contended that too often, motorists overshoot the turn in the
In loving memory of Anna J. Brooks, who passed away on Friday, June 23, 2023. She was born in Mt. Auburn. Ill., and was the daughter of George Lester Haynes and Dorothy Mae Mulberry Haynes.
road because of speed, inattention or failure to comply with traffic signs. They lose control, leave the road and come to rest on the rightof-way near, and sometimes on, the tracks.
But simply closing the crossing to motor vehicle traffic — which essentially closes Road 32A — is not an option, according to the city, county and local farmers.
In addition to its use by commuters seeking to avoid traffic on I-80, farmers use it to move heavy vehicles from the south side of the freeway to the north and vice versa.
Shortly after, Union Pacific filed its application with the PUC, a number of local agencies joined
Anna J. Brooks 1934—2023 BROOKS
She and her sister Janice Hardy Mulberry Vincent were raised by their maternal grandfather Frank Mulberry when their parents passed away during their early childhood.
She leaves behind her two children, Cara Haynes Latham (Elester) and
together to fight the effort, including the city of Davis, the Yolo County Board of Supervisors, the Yolo County Farm Bureau, and the Sacramento Area Council of Governments.
The funding provided by the Transportation Infrastructure Rail Capital Program positions this project to be eligible for future federal and state funding programs. Yolo County officials plan to leverage the grant to secure additional resources toward the total estimated cost of $46 million. The county will request a letter of no prejudice to expedite the process, with the goal of completing the funded phases by 2026.
did the marketing because, as energy historian Joshua Lappen explained in a quote, “Their customers were abandoning gas light for electric light. They popularized gas stoves as a way of creating a new retail business as their original business began to fail.” Steingraber states that “environmental journalist Rebecca Leber documented the industry embrace of ‘natural gas’ as the name of its fuel and coined the advertising jingle ‘Now we’re cooking with gas!’”
Writes Steingraber: “That slogan was then placed in the mouths of cartoon characters (Daffy Duck) and comedians (Bob Hope, Jack Benny) and entered the public lexicon, becoming a metaphor for making progress.” Despite what Steingraber calls the star power (Marlena and Julia Meade in ads for stoves and Bing Crosby “hawking gas stoves”), she reports that as late as the 1970s, “fewer than one in every three new homes in the United States was equipped with a stove that ran on gas.
In the mid-20th century,
Hans Joachim Schaffron
Hans Joachim Schaffron has gone on to a new adventure. Born Dec. 12, 1950, he passed away peacefully on May 25, 2023, in Grants Pass, Ore., from a heart attack.
it was the electric stove, not the gas stove, that was considered a status symbol and the sine qua non of cooking technology. In the 1980s, the gas industry redoubled its efforts to sell the public on the idea that gas cooking was the superior option and gas stoves a coveted status symbol.” Steingraber sources environmental journalist Rebecca Leber who explained the industry embraced “natural gas” as the name of its fuel and coined the advertising jingle “Now we’re cooking with gas!” That slogan, as further explained by Steingraber, “was then placed in the mouths of cartoon characters (Daffy Duck) and comedians (Bob Hope, Jack Benny) and entered the public lexicon, becoming a metaphor for making progress.”
Holding onto that headline in the Family Features story, “Cooking with gas”
has the feel that the cooking experience is enhanced with gas.
Similar imagery and stories of climate change accompanied by children engaging in water play or people sun bathing, instead of images that actually reflect on the deadly seriousness of the crisis of misinformation on climate, says Huising.
“(This misinformation) is manyfold, from playing down the impacts of climate change, to suggesting that we cannot transition from fossil fuels for reliability, or that it would be too expensive or too hard to do so. Throwing out goals for emission reduction in the distant future (carbon neutral by 2045) without tangible near-term benchmarks to be met towards that emissions reduction goal.”
Frank Hamilton Brooks (Jennifer); and grandchildren Morgan Douglass Latham, Annalee Ester Latham, Luke Hamilton Brooks, Lila Virginia Brooks and Hudson Grant Brooks.
She will be remembered as a strong, independent woman who prized education her entire life. She
completed her master’s degree in education and her legacy will be her influence on the students she taught during her lifelong career as a teacher and the neighbors and people she touched with her concern for animal welfare.
Any tributes can be sent to your local SPCA.
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For four years, Stanford student Liam Anderson has gone to what he calls his “full-time job.” He puts on his uniform, laces up his shoes and just runs. As captain of the Stanford track and field team, the public policy major has put in 20 to 40 hours of running, conditioning and physical therapy each week — a pace he’ll continue when he returns to campus this fall to pursue his master’s degree.
It’s a lot of time away from academics, with little financial reward, which is partly why Anderson has been supporting and advising California lawmakers on new legislation that could dramatically alter college athletes’ compensation.
“This is the only labor market where the primary labor input — the players — receive essentially zero compensation from their employers,” Anderson said.
“It is very difficult on a philosophical level to argue that these players do not deserve some form of compensation. To say a scholarship is enough is laughable.”
Assembly Bill 252, or the College Athlete Protection Act, would require California colleges to put some of their sports revenue into a fund that would pay student athletes when they complete their degrees. Athletes could earn as much as $25,000 for each year they participate in their sport.
But the bill has been controversial. Last week, its author, Assemblyman Chris Holden, put it on hold until next year after opponents — including the University of California, California State University and Team USA — argued it would further prioritize men’s basketball and football, causing campuses with tight athletic budgets to divert resources away from less lucrative sports. The NCAA has also opposed it.
Supporters say the firstin-the-nation bill, which the state Senate could take up again as early as January, bolsters athletes’ rights by giving them a cut of the revenue they generate. It’s the latest flashpoint in the debate over student athlete compensation, in which California has played a leading role.
As written, the bill would also require colleges to comply with a variety of health and safety standards, including paying all out-of-pocket health care costs for athletes injured on the field, and providing players with financial and life skills training. Sports agents seeking to represent student athletes would need to be certified by the state. A 21-member panel appointed by the Legislature and governor, with seats set aside for former college athletes, would oversee compliance.
The degree completion fund, however, has drawn the most attention since it would be a further blow to the amateurism model in college sports. California already catalyzed change within the NCAA when it allowed student athletes to make money off their name, image and likeness. NCAA policy now permits athletes to sign endorsement deals, but that money comes from private sponsors rather than the universities themselves. Athletes receiving it would be eligible for the degree completion funds, too.
Combined, California’s 26 Division I schools earned $1.2 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2022, according to the U.S. Department of Education. That includes media contracts, ticket sales, investment interest income, student activity fees and alumni contributions.
“Revenue is being
generated. There are TV rights that are being negotiated for someone to make a lot of money, and it is not the student athlete,” said Holden, a Pasadena Democrat who played college basketball for San Diego State from 1978 to 1982.
“This is an opportunity to really recognize the kind of sacrifices that many of these athletes put on the line on behalf of universities and the NCAA, institutions that make billions of dollars,” Holden added. Money for the degree completion fund would come from a university’s existing athletic revenue.
Beginning in 2024, if an athletic department makes more annual revenue than it did in the 2021-22 academic year, the difference would be deposited in the fund. Athletes’ payments would depend in part on how much revenue their sport generates and how much their team already gives out in athletic grants.
Football and men’s basketball make up a majority of revenue brought in by athletic departments, and some of those funds currently go to subsidize other sports. That caused some supporters of those lowerrevenue sports — such as swimming and volleyball — to worry that the bill would sap much-needed funding from their programs.
“If schools do not have the budget to fund sports, they will cut sports,” says an open letter from Women’s Sports Foundation CEO Danette Leighton to Holden. “If this were the case, we know from history that women’s sports and men’s Olympic sports would be among the first to be cut.”
Of the 21 NCAA Division I sports, 19 will be contested at either the 2024 Summer Olympics or 2026 Winter Olympics.
After initial concerns that the bill would violate Title IX by threatening the funding of women’s sports teams, lawmakers added an amendment to split the allocation of degree completion funds 50/50 between female and male college athletes.
Some opponents, however, still weren’t convinced.
“It’s great that (payments) would go towards some women, but if it becomes infeasible for schools to then support the programs at all, then we’re not really ahead of where we started,” said Maya Dirado, a Stanford graduate and Olympic gold medalist in swimming.
Liam Anderson, a Stanford track and field athlete and co-president of the university’s Student Athlete Advisory Committee, supports a proposal to pay college players a share of the revenue they generate.
Photo by Semantha Norris, CalMatters
Elise Byun, a UC Berkeley gymnast and member of the NCAA Division I Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, said she believes that NCAA athletes should be financially compensated by their college beyond athletic grants. However, she said the bill as written could jeopardize funding for non-revenue and Olympic sports, as well as programs like mental health counseling that would benefit all athletes.
“If the revenue that’s being taken is just giving back to football and basketball, we can’t advance the student athlete experience,” Byun said. “There’s no money left over to help bring up everyone.”
Also, the bill would not benefit athletes like Byun, who is not on scholarship, because degree payments would only go to those who receive an athletic grant.
Division II, Division III and community college athletes would also be ineligible.
The University of California and California State University also raised concerns.
“The bill’s revenue sharing framework also would create broader inequities among our student athletes, as support for nonrevenue sports would likely decrease and disproportionately impact women’s programs,” said Hazel Kelly, a CSU spokeswoman.
“This one-size-fits-all proposal is not appropriate for the broad diversity of size, scope and competitiveness that are the hallmarks of the CSU’s athletic programs.”
Holden said athletic
departments shouldn’t be worried about losing money for different programs because the degree completion fund doesn’t tap the department’s total budget, just the “excess” revenue generated above 2021-22 levels. The bill also prohibits schools from cutting athletic programs that were in place in the 2021-22 academic year.
“So we have provisions in it to protect all programs within the athletic department — men’s and women’s sports, from NCAA Division I football all the way to the rugby players who happen to be on a team if you have a rugby program — so that those programs would be maintained,” he said.
Holden declined further comment on why he had chosen to delay the bill, or
the specifics of its formula for funding degree payments. The bill had been scheduled to be heard by the Senate Education Committee on July 5, but was pulled from the agenda that day and has become a “two-year bill,” meaning it can be considered in the second year of California’s two-year legislative session. That’s a common move by lawmakers who want more time to negotiate details of legislation and sway opponents.
While the bill likely faces a long road, its passage could further cement California’s status as a pioneer on college athlete compensation.
Mark Nagel, a professor of sport and entertainment management at the University of South Carolina, said that similar institutional blowback to college athletics reform has been seen before in the past and that prior concerns haven’t really materialized.
“There’s always the idea that college athletics say that any change is going to cause the sky to fall and the world to end,” Nagel said.
“We’ve already seen that, whether it’s high-, mid- or low-level programs, Division I universities and colleges have figured out ways to find that money.”
But Andrew Zimbalist, an economics professor at Smith College, said that universities making direct payments to athletes beyond scholarships creates a variety of financial issues because there are Division I schools whose athletic departments run on deficits.
“When they lose money, the school has to raise tuition, it has to raise athletic fees, it has to go to the state legislature for more subsidies, it has less money to provide for the education of the athletes. On all of those grounds, it’s a very problematic proposal,” Zimbalist said.
A previous legislative attempt to establish a mandatory degree completion fund for athletes failed in 2022. The current bill passed the California Assembly before heading to the Senate.
The National College Players Association, one of the forces behind California’s push to allow athletes to sign paid endorsement deals, is co-sponsoring the degree completion fund bill, and the California Labor Federation supports it.
“Athletes throughout the state of CA would gain unprecedented and much needed protections, freedoms and rights. Every athlete will benefit if AB 252 is approved,” NCPA President Ramogi Huma said in an email.
— CalMatters politics reporter Alexei Koseff contributed to this story. This story and other higher education coverage are supported by the College Futures Foundation.
7,300 students using eight different definitions for the term “first-generation student.” Using one definition, 22% of students were considered first generation; according to another definition, 77% were.
“There’s nothing really clear and centralized,” said Sarah Whitley, who serves as the vice president at the Center for First-Generation Student Success, a national nonprofit and advocacy organization. “It’s something that we’re hoping to get to, but the data is just so messy everywhere.”
Mateo Fuentes’ parents immigrated from El Salvador where his father dropped out after middle school. Fuentes’ mother enrolled at Mt. San Antonio College, a community college in the Inland Empire, after they arrived in the U.S., but she left before completing her associate degree.
Fuentes qualifies as a first-generation student under the UC definition, but not under the requirements set by the Community College Chancellor’s Office.
He said it’s an unfair distinction. Even though his mother attended college, he said she was unable to help him navigate the system when he applied to college in his senior year of high school and eventually enrolled at UC Davis.
To the Community College Chancellor’s Office, calling Fuentes a first-generation student disregards the education that his mother received: Even students who drop out before obtaining their associate degree may receive certifications, such as for many healthcare or trade professions.
In an email to CalMatters, community college spokesperson Paul Feist said any definitions that exclude associate degrees and certificates — including the UC definition — “inaccurately and unfairly assumes that such experiences are not college.”
Other students who may qualify as first-generation status never appear in the state’s data. They may not know their parents’ education, they may decline to share it, or there may be challenges in data collection.
For example, a little more than one in five enrolled students in the 2021-22 academic year did not report their parents’ education, according to the California Community College Chancellor’s Office. At the CSU system, it’s one in 10, and in the UC system, it’s about 3%.
In many cases, individual schools use their own definitions.
For example, the UC system requires that students seeking first-generation status have parents without a four-year degree. But UC Riverside and a grantbased program at UCLA have a more expansive definition: If their parents have a degree from another country, the student still counts as first generation.
Whitley says colleges and universities in California and other states along the U.S.-Mexico border are shifting to this new definition to encompass students whose parents may not have “the cultural capital” to help their child navigate higher education.
“It’s tricky,” she said. “You don’t want to get into the business of saying, ‘Well, a degree from Canada is okay, but a degree from Nigeria is not.’”
Like UC Riverside, community colleges including El Camino College in Torrance and Mt. San Antonio College use the more beneficial definition, only considering degrees from U.S. institutions.
However, the Community College Chancellor’s Office, which controls most student data, doesn’t differentiate which country the degree came from, meaning that El Camino College and Mt. San Antonio College are incorrectly reporting the number of first-generation college students on their campuses.
Some community colleges disregard their chancellor’s office and consider the children of those who received certificates or associate degrees at community college — that is, the children of their own alumni — as first-generation students, so long as neither parent ever received more than an associate degree in their lifetime.
There’s no specific consequence for an individual college or university that defies the definition of its state leaders. However, the definition of first generation can affect admissions and the amount of funding that a school receives or allocates for these students.
While the community college system admits all students, the Cal State and UC systems are more selective. Along with grades, admissions staff conduct a holistic review of each applicant, which in the case of nearly every one of California’s selective public universities includes explicit consideration of the education level of the
student’s parents or guardians.
UC spokesperson Ryan King said all UC campuses use the same definition of first-generation student for the purposes of admissions.
A spokesperson for the CSU Chancellor’s Office, Amy Bentley-Smith, said that individual CSU campuses have the option to use the data that their office collects however they choose in admissions.
Students who meet the federal definition of first generation — those whose parents did not receive a bachelor’s degree — can get more than $4,600 annually of targeted support services from a federal program called TRIO as soon as they start high school, according to Victor Rojas, the director of TRIO programs affiliated with Mt. San Antonio College. Once those students enter community college, they receive fewer services, he said, worth less than $2,000.
For the 2022-23 state budget, a committee of state leaders, including current Community College Chancellor Sonya Christian, proposed aligning the community college system’s definition of firstgeneration student with that of the UC and federal definitions, and tying a substantial portion of a college’s state funding to the number of first-generation students on campus.
Both proposals failed to pass into law, despite receiving support from the governor and the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office.
State funding is not tied to the number of first-generation students at any campus, Feist said.
However, community college administrators pointed to two state grants, Extended Opportunity Programs and Services and the Student Equity and Achievement plans, that indirectly factor in the number of first-generation
students on campus because they ask colleges to outline disadvantaged populations that they intend to serve. Unlike the federal TRIO grant, which abides by a strict definition, the state grants give colleges lots of leeway to determine how they want to define a first-generation student.
Finally, some community colleges have directed their own discretionary funds to create programs, such as the First Gen Initiative at El Camino College.
All told, a community college could use one definition of first-generation students for its local programs, another for state grants, and yet another definition for federal grants. The Community College Chancellor’s Office could then use an entirely different definition when reporting the same college’s figures to state legislators or the governor.
Many college officials who spoke to CalMatters were unaware of the Chan-
cellor’s Office definition, or of which definition each of their departments used.
The words “first generation” have a lot of power, said Serandra Sylvers, a counselor at El Camino College. When the college updated its definition of first-generation students to include those whose parents received degrees outside of the U.S., she said students who met the new criteria told her it substantiated their feelings of “imposter syndrome.”
Unlike other boxes a student might intuitively check off when applying to colleges, such as questions about race or ethnicity, students say first-generation status is often something they learned later in life but still holds value.
Luciaceleste Garcia, a first generation college student, photographed at Mt. San Antonio College on July 6, 2023. Photo by
Luciaceleste Garcia was a first-generation college student who knew that her parents had never gone to college and understood part of why she had been selected to participate in the TRIO program in high school.
But the phrase, “firstgeneration college student,” didn’t hold special meaning to her until she enrolled at Mt. San Antonio College, where she said she felt unworthy and unprepared at times.
She ultimately hopes to transfer to UCLA, in part because of investments that the university has made towards Latino first-generation students like her.
Fuentes also participated in a TRIO program in high school. He realized that he was a first-generation college student after attending a conference in high school for Latino students, and it has since become a guiding principle for him, even outside of UC Davis: Many of his friends are first-generation and he is spending this summer working with Garcia for TRIO.
Next year, he’ll graduate, but he expects that he’ll always identify as a firstgeneration college student given his parents’ background and education. He’s grateful to them, but knows there are certain questions he can’t ask: “I can’t just be like, ‘Hey, how do I start investing?’”
That’s a first-generation problem.
— Adam Echelman covers California’s community colleges in partnership with Open Campus, a nonprofit newsroom focused on higher education.
The Bohart Museum of Entomology will dedicate its open house, “Night at the Museum” (formerly known as “Moth Night”) to the late Jerry Powell, longtime director of the Essig Museum Entomology of UC Berkeley, and an international authority on moths. He died July 8 in Berkeley at age 90.
Powell was a Bohart Museum associate and a scientific collaborator, identifying scores of insects and attending many of the Lepidopterist Society meetings held there.
The open house, free and family friendly, is set from 7 to 11 p.m., Saturday, July 22 in Room 1124 of the Academic Surge Building, 455 Crocker Lane, UC Davis campus. Plans call for scientists to set up their traditional blacklighting (ultraviolet or UV) display to attract moths and other night-flying insects. Bohart Research Affiliate John De Benedictus, a retired UC Davis Staff Research Associate, also known as “The Moth Man,” usually heads the blacklighting project. De Benedictus received his master’s degree in 1988 from UC Berkeley, studying with Powell. “I spent more
time in the field with Jerry than any other grad student,” he related. “I was privileged to be Jerry’s student and lucky to have become his friend.”
Powell, born May 23, 1933, in Glendale, received his bachelor’s degree in entomology at UC Berkeley in 1955 and his doctorate there in 1961. One of his most-read books, coauthored with Charles Hogue, is “California Insects,” Volume 44, published in 1980. The second edition, co-authored by Kip Will, Daniel Rubinoff and Powell and covering more than 600 species, was published in October, 2020.
Powell and Paul Opler (1938-2023) co-authored “Moths of Western America,” published in 2009.
In a tribute to Powell on its website, the Essig Museum posted in part:
“In his teen years he was heavily influenced by Charles ‘Harbie’ Harbison, who ran the Junior Naturalist Program at the San Diego Museum of Natural History, and sparked an interest in Jerry for butterflies and moths. Seeing his potential, Harbie recommended Jerry for the Entomology program at UC Berkeley, where he received his BS in 1955 and his PhD in 1961.
Although he retired as
director in 1999, Jerry remained a professor of the Graduate School until 2012 and maintained an active research program in Lepidoptera life histories and systematics until 2018, advising many students along the way.
“Jerry’s rearing program was the most extensive in the history of the study of
New World Microlepidoptera,” according to the Essig post. “For over 50 years he and his students processed more than 15,000 collections of larval or live adult Lepidoptera. Resulting data encompass more than 1,000 species of moths, through rearing either field-collected larvae or those emerging from eggs
deposited by females in confinement. This total includes more than 60% of an estimated 1,500 species of Microlepidoptera occurring in California.”
Powell gained international recognition when he detected the agricultural pest, the light brown apple moth, Epiphyas postvittana, in a ultralight (UV)
trap on July 19, 2006 in his backyard in Berkeley.
In an email to colleagues on July 9, Peter Oboyski, executive director of the Essig Museum of Entomology, wrote: “With a heavy heart I am sad to report that professor Jerry Powell passed away this weekend. His contributions to our knowledge of California entomology, microlepidoptera, and insect life histories are inestimable, as is the value of the training he provided to his students. As one of those students, I am eternally grateful for the time, energy, and knowledge Jerry shared with me in the museum and the field.
“A consummate field biologist, Jerry’s knowledge and interests were broad, allowing him to read landscapes and discover the most interesting and cryptic of species interactions,” Oboyski noted. “This is well documented in over 220 publications.”
Powell described himself as a “MothNut” on his vehicle license plate, and also displayed a sticker, “Larvae on Board.”
The Bohart Museum, directed by UC Davis distinguished professor Lynn Kimsey, is the home of a global collection of eight million insect specimens; a live insect petting zoo; and a gift shop.
Do you know of an individual, business or organization in Yolo County whose actions promote democracy? Let their work be known!
Every year the Woodland League of Women Voters presents its Democracy Works award to an individual and/or organization working to empower voters and defend democracy. The League seeks nominees from
throughout Yolo County whose actions support our citizens and democratic processes. These actions may include encouraging equal representation, promoting free and fair elections, expanding voter education and rights, advocating legislation that promotes democracy and our communities, or taking grassroots political action.
Nominations are being sought from residents in all areas of Yolo
County between now and August 31. All nominations should describe what the individual, business or organization has done to support our citizens and democratic processes.
Forms are available on the league’s website at https:// my.lwv.org/california/woodland/ news/democracy-works/award where you can find a list of previous Democracy Works Award winners. You can also request a
nomination form by contacting the league via email at woodlandleaguenews@gmail.com.
Completed forms can be mailed to LWV Woodland, Attn: Democracy Works Award, P.O. Box 2463, Woodland, CA 95776 or emailed to woodlandleaguenews@gmail.com.
Past recipients have ranged from Tessa Smith (2022), Chair of the Multi-Cultural Community Council which advises the Yolo
County District Attorney's Office and Yolo County students (2018) working to encourage civic engagement in youth through the annual Youth Empowerment Summit to Pat Murray (2015) for her decades of making democracy to community work in Yolo County.
An in-person event honoring the recipient(s) is being planned for October or early November 2023.
Enterprise staff
Truly embodying the essence of the student-athlete is Lena Svanholm of the UC Davis women’s basketball team.
The forward has excelled tremendously off the court, as she was recently accepted into UC Davis’ Ph.D. program for Chemistry and Chemical Biology. Svanholm has announced that she will return for her last dance in the 2023-24 campaign, becoming the only known active NCAA Division I women’s basketball studentathlete to be enrolled in such a program.
“I am absolutely thrilled that we get the chance to coach Lena for one more season,” said UCD head coach Jennifer Gross.
“Lena has brought so much to our program throughout her time here. She is a kind and selfless teammate who sets the example every day with her disciplined work ethic, positive attitude, and drive to succeed.
“I’m so happy Lena will have the chance to accomplish more of her goals on the court here at UC Davis while pursuing her passions as a Ph.D. student as well.”
Svanholm arrived in Davis ahead of the 2019-20 season after transferring from Colorado State.
Having to sit out her first season due to NCAA transfer restrictions, the Danish forward played a pivotal role in the Aggies’ 2020-21 Big West Conference title run.
By Bruce Gallaudet Enterprise correspondent
It was just after World War II.
The previous four years of Major League Baseball had been without star appeal. But now, veterans like Stan Musial, Joe DiMaggio, Bob Feller and Ted Williams were returning home.
Meanwhile, in the spring of 1946 in the backwater town of Los Banos in Merced County, 12-year-old Ralph Rago was investing the first of what would be life-long sweat equity in baseball.
“We didn’t have any place to play,” says the American Baseball Coaches Hall of Fame member. “So, our police chief says to us boys that he has (a plot of land) near the middle of town: ‘Fix it up. Make a field and you can play there.’ So, we did. A bunch of seventh- and eighth-graders did most of the work.”
Rago says that baseball field has long since been replaced by houses, but the memory of his first experience with organized baseball endures.
On Sunday, July 23, Rago turns 90. To cele-
brate, his friends are throwing a birthday party at Taber Ranch in the Capay Valley. Going from noon to 6 p.m., the bash is open to any of Rago’s legion of friends, former colleagues and players.
(Just send an RSVP to Alex Matta at elisematta68@gmail.com.)
“That’s special,” admits Rago, who for much of
eight decades has been the guy doing for others. “It will be fun seeing who shows up.”
The son of an Italian immigrant, Rago grew up in the Central California agricultural community of Los Banos before heading off to the U.S. Army and then Fresno State.
“I wasn’t a star or anything. A role player,”
explained the one-time outfielder. “I did have one home run. I do remember the stands were quiet when I hit it.”
But like Yogi Berra said, “You can observe a lot by watching.”
Rago paid close attention, and upon graduation he was named the baseball coach at Merced High. A couple of years there
led to a life-changing move — Rago came to Davis High.
Coaching tennis, basketball, track and, of course, baseball, Rago eased into his lifetime’s calling in the dugout.
“Davis (High) enrollment was about 320, and there were three others — Royal Morrison, Bud Henle and Les Curry — on
the coaching staff,” Rago remembers. “We had some terrific teams.”
One of those teams was an undefeated 1962 boys basketball squad that featured a storied Blue Devil athlete who would go on to be one of the school’s Hall of Fame inductees, Ralph Villanueva.
“(Rago) was a very good coach,” Villanueva told The Enterprise. “He wanted you to play hard, and everything about him was very detailed. I learned a lot … took a lot down the road with me.”
In Rago’s more than two decades at DHS, his influence on athletics helped position the school to become the Sac-Joaquin Section’s most-decorated member (more than 130 section crowns, of which he helped the Blue Devils earn baseball pennants in 2000 and 2004 while assisting retired skipper Dan Ariola).
But Rago seemed to be just getting started. His lengthy résumé includes: n A decade at the side of UC Davis diamond legend Phil Swimley.
n A couple of summers spent with the
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UC Davis, you see, has been in the habit of opening the football season on the road by taking on an FBS opponent, frequently from the Pac-12. There's always a decent-sized paycheck that goes along with the deal that helps to pay the bills.
The FBS team is supposed to beat the FCS team, in this case the Aggies, and in exchange the FCS team goes home with a generous payday. The games, by the way, are always on the road for UCD.
The Aggies, however, have on several occasions upset the scriptwriters by coming home not only with a paycheck, but also with a victory.
In 2005, after trailing 17-0 at one point, the Aggies rallied for a 20-17 win over mighty Stanford that ultimately cost the Stanford coach his job. The winning touchdown pass came with just eight seconds left in the game. UCD got to keep
the paycheck. More recently, the Aggies stunned University of Tulsa on a muggy Oklahoma September evening. In other years, UCD has scared Cal a couple of times before losing. The Bears are on a future schedule, as are Washington and UCLA.
Tulsa was a late replacement for a scheduled game with USC, which decided it did not want to play an FCS school after all.
UCD got a double payday that year, a default penalty from USC and a regular payment from Tulsa. UCD ended up with a great win to boot.
Even if you lose, it tends to be a win-win for the FCS school, given the exposure it gives the university plus the paycheck that can help fund some of the
so-called "non-revenue" sports the school offers.
The rapidly approaching 2023 season finds the Aggies in Corvallis on Sept. 9 to face another Pac-12 foe in Oregon State.
The once-meager Beavers were 10-3 a year ago, including an impressive 30-3 Las Vegas Bowl win over SEC opponent Florida.
Win or lose, the Beaver brass will fork over a cool $635,000 to UCD officials, who will take a special briefcase to Corvallis to bring the cash home.
While hosting other Big Sky opponents in recent years, Oregon State paid Montana State $675,000 in 2022, Idaho $675,000 in 2021 and Cal Poly $600,000 in 2019.
The Beavers beat Montana State, 68-28, Idaho, 42-0, and Cal Poly, 45-7. The Montana State game was played in Portland while OSU's stadium was being upgraded. The Aggie-Oregon State battle will be the first game played in the beautifully refurbished Reser Stadium, which is certain to be sold out. (A few tickets are currently available at the UC
Davis box office.)
If anyone tells you they remember watching the Aggies play Oregon State, it might be time to raise a wary eyebrow.
Then again, my dad, who passed away in 1987, told me on several occasions that he remembered his alma mater, Oregon State, playing the Aggies in Corvallis in 1927 and 1928 during his first two years as an undergraduate at what was then known as Oregon Agricultural College. Since UCD started out as the University Farm, these were battles between future farmers.
Oregon State is actually 4-0 against the Aggies in a series that ran every year from 192730. In order, Oregon State won by scores of 25-6, 14-0, 19-0 and 20-0.
The Aggies apparently left their offense on the team bus during those years.
That's not likely to happen this time around.
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Even if you lose, it tends to be a winwin for the FCS school, given the exposure it gives the university plus the paycheck that can help fund some of the so-called “nonrevenue” sports the school offers.
Never a dull moment in either professional or collegiate sports.
n Given the, at this point, allegations against the Northwestern football program and its ousted head coach Pat Fitzgerald, a necessity comes to mind.
It behooves every president/chancellor and athletics director at every FBS/FCS school to do a deep dive into their football program(s).
What they find likely won’t be pretty.
Hazing of any kind, in any sport, is reprehensible and simply, undeniably wrong.
Yet it goes on, frequently undetected, in football programs everywhere.
For far too long, college football coaches have run their own fiefdoms, with little or no supervision, guidance or accountability.
Except for winning and keeping the money machine churning.
University leaders are often clueless when it comes to the mechanics of how college football operates. Many are perfectly willing to cede total control to head coaches who eventually acquire unlimited control.
After all, no one pays $100 a ticket and
up to watch a chemistry professor deliver a lecture. Many do, however, fork out the cash to watch his/her favorite school come fall Saturdays.
Most programs are clean, run with integrity, by coaches who, for the most part, have their players’ best interests at heart. It’s only those who don’t do things the right way that you hear about.
Those at the top are responsible for what goes on underneath. So, they should investigate thoroughly. Above-board head coaches doing the right thing will have no problem with this. Resistance means someone has something to hide.
No matter what issue may exist, whether it’s in the professional ranks or the collegiate sphere, know this: At the
end of the day, it is all about the money. First, foremost and forever.
n All those who forecast Colorado Rockies catcher Elias Dias as the All-Star Game most valuable player and San Francisco Giants closer Camilo Doval as the winning pitcher, please take one step forward.
Uh, not so fast. Any of you.
n Jimmy Buffett once recorded a greatest hits album entitled “Songs You Know By Heart.” All of his popular ones over the years.
Yet two of his best ever, in this listener’s belief, are “The Pascagoula Run” and “Livingston Saturday Night.”
n With the All-Star break concluded, the next big event on baseball’s calendar could well change the makeup of many teams.
That is the trade deadline come Aug. 1. With most of the divisional races still highly competitive, teams buying and those selling may not be known for two more weeks.
n The interim head football coach is David Braun, who coached at UC Davis in 2015-16. For the past four seasons, he has
been defensive coordinator at FCS powerhouse North Dakota State.
A good man thrust into a tough spot.
n Though he has played, coached and managed in several places, future Hall of Famer Dusty Baker has always called the greater Sacramento-Davis area home. He spoke with AARP The Magazine recently about a personal philosophy:
“After a while, I quit listening to folks telling me what I can’t do. All that does is motivate me more to do it.”
Baker is in his fourth season as Houston Astros manager and won his first World Series as a manager in 2022.
He’s got the Astros in the thick of this season’s pennant race as well.
Over 26 years in the dugout, his career record post-All Star break, is 2,143 wins and 1,831 losses.
The longtime radio and television color man on UC Davis football broadcasts, Doug Kelly is director of communications for Battlefields2Ballfields and managing general partner of Kelly & Associates. Contact him at DKelly1416@ aol.com.
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Solano Thunderbirds of the California Collegiate Baseball League.
n A stay as assistant coach at Solano College.
n More than 10 years as an MLB envoy tasked with reorganizing baseball in Great Britain and asked to work with fledgling programs in Nigeria and Cameroon. (His 1997 English team won a league title.)
“Africa was fun. The first time I got to Nigeria, I asked about their playing facilities.
They said they had a field and took me to it,” Rago remembers, already laughing about the moment he first saw that African “base-
“The grass was yea-high,” the coach continued, holding his hand up to his waist. “I told the players that grass obviously needed to be cut down. So, what did they do?”
Still chuckling: “They brought out machetes and started whacking away. No lawnmower in sight.”
When he was approaching 80, one might have thought Rago would’ve long thought about retirement.
However, he joined longtime friend and fellow baseball elder statesman Guy Anderson to coach Cordova and Capital Christian high schools until each was well into his 80s.
The pair retired three years ago.
“It’s been great fun,” Rago promises. “I’ll miss working with the kids … making great friendships that have lasted a lifetime.”
Swimley, whose 37 years at UC Davis included that decade with Rago in the dugout, was asked what the Ol’ Professor (apologies to Casey Stengel) meant to him.
“It’s not so much what he meant to me,” Swimley reflects. “He meant a lot to a lot of players and people who worked with him.
“I’d like to emphasize the impact he’s had on the umpteen thousands of players over the years he has
coached and taught the game. His contributions extend all the way into Europe and Africa today.
“Now, with the success of the World Baseball Classic, Ralph’s international impact on the game has been significant.”
As for the celebration of Rago’s 90th birthday?
“I just hope somebody comes,” says the man of the hour.
He probably shouldn’t worry. Rumor has it that the Oakland A’s have already called Ralph and asked to exchange attendance figures for that day.
The Athletics are home versus Houston at 1:07 p.m. on the 23rd.
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That summer, Svanholm graduated with her bachelor’s degree in German with a minor in chemistry.
She had plans to complete her master’s degree in pharmaceutical chemistry, so she would return for the 2021-22 season.
Svanholm made a larger impact in the 2021-22 season, appearing in all 28 games. She has shot over 47% for her UCD career, grabbing over 100 rebounds.
Her dedication to her
education has been evident since she stepped on campus as the Hoersholm, Denmark native speaks three languages: Danish, German, and English. By learning multiple languages, Svanholm has been able to immerse herself in a variety of different cultures during her athletic and academic journey.
Balancing both basketball and this advanced program will be a tall task for the 6-foot-6 forward, but with the help of her teammates, coaches, and professors, Svanholm feels well-equipped to handle the challenge.
n Editor’s note: Tanya Perez is taking the day off. This column originally published in February 2021.
Ever heard the concept of “compass person or map person?” The gist is some people want to make plans as detailed as if they were plotting each point of a trip via a map, while others make plans by (figuratively) just holding up a compass and knowing they ultimately want to end up in the west.
Neither S nor I remember where we first heard this idea in the past year, but we both have found it extremely helpful in navigating some frustrations.
Of course as soon as we were introduced to this notion, we immediately started categorizing people, starting — naturally — with ourselves. We are both compass people.
For what it’s worth, I believe I’m more compass-y than S, as is exhibited by all the time spent bickering on ski lifts about which trails to take down. He wants to see the map and be sure we like our trail down, and I want gravity to guide us.
I have a lot of thoughts about the commingling of compass and map people. I think for S and me it’s good that we both have confidence that things will work out without being what we would consider “overly” planned.
I’ve often imagined the hell of planning a trip the way I want to — “Hey, I booked this hotel which seems to be near some fun stuff!” — if my partner wanted to have tickets to events, restaurant reservations and a rigid schedule of what to do when on the books months before the trip. Lordy.
The harmony of two compass people traveling, at least for us, is deciding things on the spur of the moment what we feel like doing. I actually like a little bit of mapping on a trip — like having tickets to a Broadway show in
New York and knowing I want to walk on the High Line — while not having each aspect carved in stone.
I have to imagine that two map people planning a trip have a fun time as they scrutinize all the possibilities and use lots of colored pens and stickers to exactingly chart their course. No judgment! (Is a thing people say when they are obviously judging the wrong way to do things.)
Where the compass/map situation has been a more useful took is in thinking about colleagues and their work styles and preferences. I believe that if more people understood their coworkers’ proclivities in this arena, there would be a lot less eye-rolling in meetings.
For my part, I try to not visibly bristle over being told I need to follow a precise map on a work project. I mean, hey! I have a good track record of getting where I was aiming, right? But I understand that when I’m a project lead, the map people are rightfully unnerved by the lack of a detailed plan.
One way this manifests is that I often end up doing things I should have delegated because asking a map person to scramble at the end of a project to meet a deadline seems particularly cruel. If I’d have had that to-do item on a detailed spreadsheet, there would be no scrambling.
And to be honest, being a compass person at work is a bit of a problem when I have to retrace my steps to show others how I got where I got. “I don’t know, I just did” is not a good answer. How do you train someone else with that lack of information?
In my observation, it seems that compass people bug map people more than vice versa. While it’s bothersome to us compassers to have to put up with a lot of minutiae from map people, I think it’s a bigger burden for people who want clear steps on how to get somewhere to be told, “We ain’t doing that.”
When I asked my brother and his wife where they saw themselves on the compass/map spectrum, he said “compass” and she said “map.” And then she quickly
followed it up that she likes to be the only map person on a project because working with a bunch of other mappers is too much negotiating and she wants to be the one who sets the course. Fair point.
While I haven’t done any research on the subject, I think map and compass sensibilities are born and not bred. My best evidence are the family trips we took when I was a kid: My computer-programming stepmom mapped out intricate details — pre-Internet! — using travel books and AAA TripTiks.
She posted the calendar on the fridge of our motorhome with all the places we’d stop, eat, visit, and sleep, and how many miles between destinations with ETAs attached. It was awe-inspiring, and I would marvel, saying to myself, “I’m gonna plan trips like this when I grow up!”
Spoiler alert: I never did..
— Tanya Perez lives in Davis with her family. Her column is published every other Sunday. Reach her at pereztanyah@ gmail.com. Follow her on Twitter at @californiatanya.
Earlier this year, one of YoloCares’ sister hospices received a call from a hospital discharge planner who asked if they were equipped to provide care for a homeless woman named Mary.
Mary was being released from the hospital with an especially aggressive and incurable form of cancer that had spread to her lungs, liver and bones.
Mary wasn’t always homeless. She was a longtime favorite waitress at a family-owned restaurant in South Natomas where she earned just enough money to pay her rent and a small pile of monthly bills. Living lean was challenging but doable. Then, COVID-19 swept across the globe, putting both lives and livelihoods at risk.
When the restaurant closed during the earliest days of the pandemic, Mary thought she could find other work, however, most businesses were struggling just to keep their current staff employed. The idea of hiring new staff was off the table, especially in the restaurant industry.
Not long after Mary was laid off, she began feeling
overly tired and too weak to continue a job search. She thought her symptoms could be the result of depression, so she scheduled an appointment to see her doctor. After a series of tests, procedures and appointments with specialists, her medical team was faced with delivering exceptionally bad news ... stage-four breast cancer.
It was not long before Mary could no longer pay her rent and became too sick to search for work. Her landlord sold the building she lived in, and the new owner gave notice that she and all the other tenants would need to leave. Left with no other options, and feeling completely helpless, Mary found a place underneath a giant oak tree near the American River to spend her nights and to rest during the day.
This seemed like a cruel fate for a previously hardworking woman whose family had lived for three generations in the Northgate community of Sacramento. The neighborhood was her home and her life, yet there was no safe or comfortable place for her to be when she needed a safety net for her final days.
Providing care for someone in a tent along the river or underneath an overpass is impossible. So, the hospice’s first order of business was to find Mary safe housing so that she could receive care. Unfortunately for Mary, the hospice could not find options soon enough.
Just weeks after her release from the hospital, she was found dead near a parking lot on Truxel Avenue. Sadly, it was a group of 12-year-old children who discovered her body.
Mary’s story is not unique. In Sacramento County, an unhoused person dies on the streets every two days. On this side of the causeway, in Yolo County, homelessness has increased nearly 14 precent since 2019. When YoloCares receives a referral to care for a person who is unhoused, the care
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Emerson College awarded approximately 1,058 undergraduate degrees during the 143nd Commencement at Agganis Arena in Boston on May 14.
Among the graduates, Hei Yuen Chan of Davis received a bachelor’s degree in media arts production. Zeya Hu of Davis received a bachelor’s degree in media studies.
Julianna Morgan of Davis received a bachelor’s degree in interdisciplinary studies.
Based in Boston, Massachusetts, in the heart of the city’s Theatre District, Emerson College educates individuals who will solve problems and change the world through engaged leadership in
communication and the arts, a mission informed by liberal learning.
Shirin Sultana of Davis was named to Ohio University’s 2023 Spring Provost’s List. Sultana is a student in the College of Health Sciences and Professions.
At the end of each semester, Ohio University’s undergraduate students are evaluated based on their semester GPA and hours to determine placement on the President’s List, Dean’s List or Provost’s List.
Qualifying students must possess a 3.5 or greater GPA and between 6 and 11.99 credit hours attempted for letter grades
that are used to calculate GPA.
Eric Tran of Davis earned a master’s degree in computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.
Tran was among more than 5,300 undergraduate and graduate students to be presented Georgia Tech degrees during the Institute’s 264th Commencement exercises May 5 - 6, 2023, at Bobby Dodd Stadium.
The Georgia Institute of Technology, or Georgia Tech, is one of the top public research universities in the U.S.
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team must find the patient a facility to live in before care can be provided. Placing unhoused patients is no small feat.
Routinely, staff spend hours or days convincing (sometimes pressuring) facilities to accept unhoused individuals. If and when the person is placed, care can be provided in an environment that is safe and comfortable for the otherwise unhoused patient.
Recognizing this unmet need for folks who are both unhoused and terminally ill, the YoloCares Board of Directors recently voted in favor of accepting ownership and operations for Joshua’s House in Sacramento.
However, YoloCares will not take over until the project is finished and paid for. Although not yet open, Joshua’s House will
become the West Coast’s first and only residential program for unhoused individuals who qualify for hospice care. Lawmakers and healthcare leaders have indicated that Joshua’s House may become a model for other California communities.
After seven years of fundraising and building city support, Marlene von Friederichs-Fitzwater, a former professor at the UC Davis School of Medicine and founder of Joshua’s House, says the facility should be open by the end of 2023.
To date, she has raised more than $2 million which has covered the cost of building six threebedroom modular homes. The homes will be placed on leased city of Sacramento property near the intersection of Truxel and I-80. Although the city has agreed to a 50-year nocost lease, Joshua’s House will need to pay annual property taxes.
Construction crews began site work this month to lay foundations, hook up utilities, create parking lots, install fencing and lighting, and begin landscaping. The property will be a gated community with 24/7 security and around-the-clock staff seven days a week.
Von Friederichs-Fitzwater selected the name
Joshua’s House in honor of her grandson Joshua who died while living on the streets in 2014. She describes him as “extremely smart and very loving.” Her own personal experience, along with 30 years of teaching and public service led her to this project. At Sacramento State and UC Davis School of Medicine, she taught health communication and trained medical students. She also founded a nonprofit called the Health Communications Research Institute, dedicated to reducing health care inequalities.
“I have learned much from my interviews with hundreds of unhoused individuals in Sacramento,” says Von Friederichs-Fitzwater. “For almost all of them, their greatest fear is dying on the street and vanishing off the face of the planet as if they never existed. That was disturbing. They all want to spend their final days in a place where they will be loved and comforted and cared for.”
To get involved, or for more information on Joshua’s House, contact Chris Erdman, director of Joshua’s House and the Center for Loss and Hope at YoloCares: 530-7585566.
Craig Dresang is the CEO of YoloCares.
Food companies shouldn’t be allowed to sell products in the U.S. made with toxic chemicals while they sell the same products in other countries without them.
Yet that’s exactly what happens with certain candies, baked goods and beverages.
Manufacturers ship products with safer ingredients to other countries while the inferior versions containing harmful chemicals and additives are sold every day in America.
A bill by Assemblyman Jesse Gabriel, D-Woodland Hills, would prohibit the use of five toxic chemicals found in candies such as Skittles and Sour Patch Kids. Recent scientific evidence has linked certain food additives to serious health problems, including higher risk of cancer, nervous system damage, hyperactivity and other neurological problems.
The risks posed by these five food chemicals — BVO, potassium bromate, propyl paraben, red dye No. 3 and titanium dioxide — are particularly concerning for children, who often consume these candies at higher rates than adults and whose developing bodies are particularly vulnerable to toxic exposure.
The proposal to ban them, Assembly Bill 418, was approved by the California Assembly in May but is now facing fierce industry opposition in the Senate.
Because of the health risks, these chemicals have been banned or severely restricted in the European Union and other countries. To continue selling their products there, food manufacturers replaced the toxic ingredients with readily available alternatives that are safer and, in some cases, more cost effective. However, they have continued using the banned chemicals in products sold in the U.S.
After AB 418 passed the Assembly by an overwhelming 54-12 vote, the food industry began blitzing the capital with an army of lobbyists to try to stop the bill in the Senate, arguing that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has reviewed the safety of these ingredients and will take care of it without California needing to act.
However, the FDA is not required to reexamine additives once they are allowed on the market, so the last time some of these chemicals were assessed was almost 50 years ago.
For years, studies have highlighted the health risks posed by the dangerous additives that would be banned under AB 418. Given the FDA’s ongoing failure to act, it’s critical for states like California to protect consumers from harmful ingredients.
The industry is also pointing to a recent FDA blog post announcing how the agency intends to take a new approach to reviewing chemicals, which would make California’s legislation unnecessary. However, the blog post provided few details, no deadlines and made no commitment for new resources. It merely stated that they would like to do more to review chemicals, but would need additional funding and authority from Congress.
The likelihood for that type of action is unclear, and consumers shouldn’t have to wait.
Californians deserve to know that the food they purchase is safe to eat. State lawmakers should resist the food industry’s misinformation campaign and prohibit companies from selling inferior products containing toxic chemicals in California.
— Brian Ronholm is the director of food policy at Consumer Reports. He wrote this for CalMatters, a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California’s Capitol works and why it matters.
Political officeholders at all levels and of all ideological stripes habitually pursue a time-dishonored practice when releasing data.
If it’s positive, politicians try to maximize its importance with lavish news conferences and self-congratulatory declarations.
If, on the other hand, the data have a negative cast, they will be released quietly, often late on a Friday afternoon, to minimize media coverage.
California’s annual report on crime was released this year on the Friday before what for many would be a four-day, Fourth of July holiday weekend. That’s a tipoff that it would not be good news — and, in fact, it received minimal media attention.
The 2022 report revealed that the state’s violent crime rate increased by 6.1% since 2021, and property crime was up 6.2%. Homicides dipped very slightly, but robberies jumped by 10.2%.
Attorney General Rob Bonta issued a low-key statement with the data release, saying, “While crime rates remain significantly below their historical highs, property and violent crimes continue to have devastating
consequences for communities across the state, and gun violence remains a major threat to public safety.”
One can be certain that had California seen a drop in crime in 2022, Bonta would have trumpeted it as loudly as possible.
Let’s be clear: Neither Bonta nor any other attorney general can have more than a marginal effect on crime rates. Nevertheless, their campaigns often depict themselves as the state’s top cop and imply that they do have such authority.
Why crime rates ebb ands flow is the subject of neverending academic and political debate — and is colored by equally erratic public concerns about being victimized.
At the moment, Californians’ worries about crime appear to be on the upswing, as indicated by one of the Public Policy Institute of California’s periodic polls, conducted just before last fall’s election.
“Californians’ perception of
crime spiked during the pandemic — as did certain types of crime,” PPIC found, adding, “nearly two in three Californians call violence and street crime in their local community a problem. This includes 31% who call them a big problem, a noticeable increase from February 2020 (24%).”
The poll found that among racial and ethnic groups, Black Californians expressed the highest level of concern about crime, women were more concerned than men, and Republicans more than Democrats or independent voters.
The data released on June 30 imply that those concerns are rooted in fact. Crime did increase sharply last year, particularly robberies, and it has not gone unnoticed in the media.
The proliferation of cameras in stores and in the hands of cellphone owners has produced a never-ending supply of crime video snippets, such as smash-and-grab invasions of stores, for television newscasts, which then reverberate on YouTube and other online outlets.
Just a few days after the crime report release, for example, a San Francisco TV station aired video of criminals breaking into a Bay Area
visitor’s rental car in broad daylight, stealing the contents and driving away. Bonta and the man who appointed him attorney general before he won reelection in November, Gov. Gavin Newsom, have pursued somewhat ambivalent postures about crime. They lament its effects on victims and take some public crimefighting steps while championing criminal justice reform to reduce traditional punishment of those caught breaking the law.
A day before the crime data were released, Newsom dispatched more California Highway Patrol officers to battle open air drug dealing in San Francisco, a city he once governed as mayor.
In decades past, spikes in crime have had major impacts on California’s political atmosphere — helping Republicans become dominant in the 1980s, for example.
Were crime to continue its currently upward path, it could once again become a game-changing political factor.
— CalMatters is a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California’s state Capitol works and why it matters. For more stories by Dan Walters, go to Commentary.
Not so much
Bob Dunning recently made a salient point: many long-time Davis homeowners are annoyed that affordable housing might somehow cap the huge profit they’d make in today’s market.
Tiny homes? “Not here, not ever! Move to Isleton!” Low-income housing? “Hell, no! Riff-raff! What are you, some kind of socialist kook?”
I don’t begrudge any property owner their investments, or envy the greatly increased value of their homes. Smart folks who made good decisions, back in the day.
It’s just disingenuous to pretend that Davis is somehow more “progressive,” when it comes to housing, than Vail, Colo., Scottsdale, Ariz., or any other wealth-centric enclave.
Eric Warp DavisOne comment from Tanya Perez (July 2) reminded me of a misconception about refrigerators. Opening the door frequently
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will let more cold air out, but there are other ways to consume extra electricity.
Regarding whole house fans, she wrote, “the outside air we trapped between 6-8 a.m. keeps the house cool.” More accurately, the early morning cold air flowing through the house cools all the solid objects (walls, furniture, clutter, etc.), then the cool solid objects absorb heat from the indoor air all day, keeping the air cool.
A long-ago neighbor once expressed pride in opening the refrigerator only a few times during an all-day electricity outage. But the vast majority of the “coldness” is in the stored food, not the air. Anything left out of the fridge absorbs heat from the warmer air in the kitchen, then later the refrigerator runs longer to cool it again.
The air in a refrigerator weighs less than a pound, and a gallon of milk is roughly ten times that heavy, mostly water. For a given temperature change, a pound of water absorbs over four times as much heat as a pound of air.
Therefore, if a gallon of milk is left out long enough to increase its temperature by one degree, the amount of extra heat energy returned to the fridge would be like filling the refrigerator with air at room temperature (10-by-4 indicates a 40-degree increase for the air). Only the latter would start the fridge running right away, but the energy balance would be the
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same over the day. Putting hot food into a refrigerator certainly uses more electricity than leaving the door open briefly or opening the door extra times.
Of course the fridge is still small potatoes compared to air conditioning. We can save far more electricity by cooling our homes with early morning outdoor air, to reduce air conditioner use. Thanks Tanya!
John Whitehead DavisIf John Clark would like to quibble over definitions, then he should probably exercise more care in his word usage. Clearly there was enough ambiguity in his writing that several people found an alternative to whatever point he was trying to make, although he has yet to make clear what “content” is or is not worthy of governmental discussion.
Of course, at the end of the day, most folks can see past his prevarications to the point he is pursuing, and respond accordingly. We don’t find such objections forthcoming when the military advertises on TV, or when the city recognizes the Fourth of July. It can hardly escape notice what the difference is, unless one is being disingenuous.
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A critical detail was omitted from Rich Rifkin’s Forum article published June 28 in The Davis Enterprise. In the interest of reducing the “mountains of misinformation” related to regulation of genetically engineered/ modified (hereafter GE) organisms to which he referred in that piece, that omission should be corrected.
Rifkin pointed out that TALENs, the process UC Davis professor Alison Van Eenennaam and colleagues used to edit a gene responsible for the development of horns in cows, is “more precise (at) editing (the genes of) live cells than CRISPR.” But he failed to mention the imprecision of TALENs that led to the bovine offspring resulting from Van Eenennaam’s research containing more than just the edited gene they had intended to insert into those animals.
That’s right. Despite Rifkin’s statement that “Everything else about the offspring (other than the allele the scientists had intended to insert) … was the
same as any other Holstein,” in reality those GE bovine offspring also contained bacterial DNA sequences — including a gene conferring antibiotic resistance — that had been inserted during the gene-editing process. Not only did Van Eenennaam and her colleagues not intend to insert that bacterial DNA into those offspring, but they didn’t even know they had inserted them until a scientist at the FDA informed them about it (after FDA scientists had analyzed the genomic data generated and provided to them by Van Eenennaam and her colleagues).
This type of GE-associated imprecision isn’t unique or new.
In fact, unintended insertion of “extra” DNA into genetically engineered organisms has been happening for over 30 years. I know because my colleagues and I at Calgene, Inc. found that we had inadvertently inserted bacterial DNA into the Flavr Savr tomatoes we were analyzing and preparing for commercial sales back in the early 1990s.
In the Flavr Savr case, FDA
scientists asked us to prove our contention that only the DNA we intended to insert into our tomatoes had been inserted. The fact that our subsequent experiments revealed bacterial DNA had been inserted into 20-30% of our tomatoes shocked me, and we published our results in a peer-reviewed journal soon thereafter so as to let the scientific community know about this imprecision of genetic engineering. The FDA scientists who found the bacterial DNA in Van Eenennaam’s de-horned GE cows published their results as well and cited additional examples of this “extra DNA” problem that had surfaced in the years since my colleagues and I had identified the problem in our tomatoes.
UC Berkeley professor Jennifer Doudna, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2020 for her research on CRISPR, is another peer-reviewed scientist who is concerned about imprecision associated with gene-editing. She gave the keynote address at the UC Davis Krebs Symposium held a couple of months ago during which she
cited examples from the peerreviewed literature of large DNA deletions and translocations, chromothripsis and chromosome loss associated with use of CRISPR and referred to this precision problem as a “bottleneck” to “What’s Ahead for Genome Editing” (the title of her talk).
Being concerned about unintended consequences of using new technologies is not — as Rifkin implied in his article — fomenting “unscientific folly.” In order to make the most informed decisions possible about how best to regulate the products of these new technologies we need to admit to their imperfections that we (should) know about, like the “extra DNA” issue that contributed to abandonment of Van Eenennaam’s hornless cow research, not make boldfaced lies of omission regarding them.
We also need to recognize that it is possible there are additional imprecisions associated with the new technologies that we just don’t understand yet (like the possibility of interfering with dynamic genomic processes in organisms, perhaps), and throw a little precaution into the mix.
I’m all for reforming the
“archaic regulations used by the FDA” to regulate GE animals. But we should start by admitting that the selective breeding process humans have been using for more than 10,000 years — a process Charles Darwin called “artificial selection” — is substantially different and significantly more “tried and true” than the GE processes humans have been using for the last 30-plus years.
There have been examples of “troublesome” GE products in those three decades (like StarLink Corn, glyphosate-tolerant crops that contributed to buildup of glyphosate-resistant weeds, NK603 corn, etc.) and they should be dealt with as red flags, not denied, downplayed or ignored. We need an honest process for reforming U.S. regulations of GE organisms, one in which the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth prevails. No lies of omission allowed.
— Belinda Martineau is a Davis resident, plant geneticist and former genetic engineer; she reports and comments on biotechnology on her blog: biotechsalon.com and elsewhere.
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One of the luxuries of democracy is that we don’t have to listen. Or we can listen and hear what we want to hear. We can find resonance in dissonance, or we can hear flat notes.
That is the story of the climate crisis, which is here.
We have been warned over and over, sometimes as gently as a summer zephyr, and sometimes gustily, as with Al Gore’s tireless campaigning and his seminal 1992 book, and later movie, “Earth in the Balance.”
Now the summer is upon us — with its intimations of worse to come. And this message rings in our ears: The climate is changing — polar ice caps are melting; the sea level is rising; the oceans are heating up; natural patterns are changing, whether it be for sharks or butterflies; and we are going to have to live with a world that we, in some measure, have thrown out of kilter.
Around the beginning of the 20th century, we began an attack on the environment, the likes of which all of history hadn’t seen, including two centuries of industrial revolution. Sadly, it was when invention began improving the lives of millions of people.
Two big forces were unleashed in the early 20th century: the harnessing of electricity and the perfection of the internal combustion engine. These improved life immensely, but there was a downside: They brought with them air pollution and, at the time unknown, started the greenhouse effect.
In the same wave of inventions, we pushed back the ravages of infectious diseases, boosted irrigated farming and enabled huge growth in the world population — all of whom aspired to a better life with electricity and cars.
In 1900, the world population was 1.6 billion. Now it is 8 billion. The population of India alone has increased by about a billion since the British withdrawal in 1947. Most Indians don’t have cars, jet off for their vacations or have enough, or any, electricity, and very few have air conditioning. Obviously, they are aspirational, as are the 1.4 billion people of Africa, most of whom have nothing. But the population of Africa is set to double in 25 years.
The greenhouse effect has been known and argued about for a long time. Starting in 1970, I became aware of it as I started covering energy intensively. I have sat
through climate sessions at places like the Aspen Institute, Harvard and MIT, where it was a topic and where the sources of the numbers were discussed, debated, questioned and analyzed.
Oddly, the environmental movement didn’t take up the cause then. It was engaged in a battle to the death with nuclear power. To prosecute its war on nuclear, it had to advocate something else, and that something else was coal: coal in a form of advanced boilers, but nonetheless coal.
The Arab oil embargo of 1973 added to the move to coal. At that point, there was little else, and coal was held out as our almost inexhaustible energy source: coal to liquid, coal to gas, coal in direct combustion. Very quiet voices on the effects of burning so much coal had no hearing. It was a desperate time needing desperate measures.
Natural gas was assumed to be a depleted resource (fracking wasn’t perfected); wind was a scheme, as today’s turbines, relying heavily on rare earths, hadn’t been created, nor had the solar electric cell. So, the air took a shellacking.
To its credit, the Biden administration has been cognizant of the building crisis. With three acts of Congress, it is trying to tackle the problem — albeit in a
somewhat incoherent way.
Some of its plans just aren’t going to work. It is pushing so hard against the least troublesome fossil fuel, natural gas, that it might destabilize the whole electric system. The administration has set a goal that by 2050 — just 27 years from now — power production should produce no greenhouse gases whatsoever, known as net-zero.
To reach this goal, the Environmental Protection Agency is proposing strict new standards. However, these call for the deployment of carbon capture technology which, as Jim Matheson, CEO of the Rural Electric Cooperative Association, told a United States Energy Association press briefing, doesn’t exist.
The crisis needs addressing, but panic isn’t a tool. A mad attack on electric utilities, the demonizing of cars or air carriers, or less environmentally aware countries won’t carry us forward.
Awareness and technology are the tools that will turn the tide of climate change and its threat to everything. It took a century to get here, and it may take that long to get back.
Llewellyn King is the executive producer and host of “White House Chronicle” on PBS. He wrote this for InsideSources. com.
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Xie Xiaoliang is one of Harvard’s premier scientists, a biophysical chemist known for his work on DNA. He’s leaving Harvard to take an academic position in his home country, China, one of about 1400 top Chinese scientists who in recent years have given up their U.S. positions and returned to China.
The reason is not so much China’s “Thousand Talents” program, which seeks to entice scientists to return home with promises of lucrative academic and research positions. It’s the lingering effects of the Trump and Biden justice department’s China Initiative.
That program sought — with outstanding failure — to weed out Chinese scientists, including Chinese Americans, who were supposedly committing economic espionage. The University of Michigan’s president was among many major university leaders who wrote to the U.S. attorney general to complain about the unfairness of the China Initiative, pointing out its racial profiling, lack of evidence of wrongdoing, and pressure on the university to “investigate researchers who are singled out only because of their personal or professional connections with China.” The open letter was signed by the overwhelming majority of Michigan faculty.
The China Initiative has ended, but the careers of a number of prominent scientists of Chinese descent in the U.S. were ruined or set back. Fear stalks Chinese visitors and citizens
alike. A 2022 survey of 1,300 scientists of Chinese descent at American universities found: “A strong sense of uneasiness and fear: 35% of respondents feel unwelcome in the United States, and 72% do not feel safe as an academic researcher; 42% are fearful of conducting research; 65% are worried about collaborations with China; and a remarkable 86% perceive that it is harder to recruit top international students now compared to 5 years ago.”
A large majority of these scientists had experienced insults and personal animosity. Thus, 61 percent of the scientists reported considering leaving the United States for another country despite the fact that “an overwhelming majority (89%) of our respondents indicated their desire to contribute to the U.S. leadership in science and technology.”
That is particularly unfortunate for several reasons.
First, Chinese scientists and engineers form a significant proportion of all new Ph.D.s from U.S. universities: 17 percent in 2020. The great majority had intended to remain in the U.S. prior to the China Initiative.
Second, China has become a science superpower if one judges from the scientific papers its scientists publish. Its scientists now out-publish U.S. scientists in scientific and technological journals. Moreover, scientific papers co-authored by U.S. and Chinese
scientists outnumber any other collaborative papers by a wide margin.
“Seventy-nine percent of collaborative papers in 2018 had at least one author who was of Chinese descent working in the United States or who had previously worked or studied in America before returning to China, according to a working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research.”
Put simply, the scientific research of Chinese scientists is crucial to international scientific collaboration (Karin Fischer, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Latitudes, June 14, 2023).
“So much of our intellectual technological power is from immigrants,” said Steven Chu, one of the signers, a Nobel Prizewinning physicist at Stanford University and a former U.S. secretary of energy. “We’re shooting ourselves not in the foot but in something close to the head.”
Roughly 300,000 Chinese graduate students and researchers are in the U.S. Outside the halls of Congress, where alarm bells constantly go off about the Chinese threat, scientists, research laboratory directors, and university officials recognize what a resource these visitors are. Their research, the patents they create, the collaborative work they do, and (yes) the fees they pay are major contributions to American science and the institutions that give them a home.
As the Michigan letter states, Chinese scientists are crucial to “the future of the U.S. STEM workforce.” Moreover:
“Many of our most challenging
global problems, including climate change and sustainability, and current and future pandemics, require international engagement. Without an open and inclusive environment that attracts the best talents in all areas, the United States cannot retain its world leading position in science and technology.”
There is, to be sure, reason for caution on national security grounds. Concern about research findings here being conveyed to the Chinese military is real. U.S. universities are well aware of the problem and have developed guidelines for collaborative research with security implications. As an internal study at MIT put it:
“The challenge for MIT and other U.S. universities is how to manage these pressures (to create barriers to educational and scientific exchange) while preserving open scientific research, open intellectual exchange, and the free flow of ideas and people — all of them essential for American universities to remain at the global forefront of research, education, and innovation.”
But overwhelmingly, the view at universities and research facilities is that our society and economy would pay a high price if Chinese scientists were suddenly barred from entry. That means U.S. “visa processes should be streamlined, backlogs cleared and talented individuals given expanded opportunities to obtain green cards,” says one
writer long involved in promoting U.S.-China ties.
Congress isn’t listening, however; right-wing members, with some support from liberals, believe any contact with Chinese scientists is a national security danger. Recently, 10 Republicans on Rep. Mike Gallagher’s special committee on China wrote Secretary of State Antony Blinken to urge that the U.S. scrap the 1979 U.S.-China Science and Technology Agreement, which is up for renewal. That agreement supports cooperation on many scientific projects in agriculture, physics, and the atmosphere, among other areas.
The committee argues, with precious little evidence, that such projects will eventually benefit China’s military. I don’t imagine Blinken will fold on this issue, but the right-wing protests and exaggerations show what engaging China is up against.
Let’s remember that no one appreciates academic freedom more than visitors from China and other countries under authoritarian rule. When that freedom is violated by harassment and suspicion, word gets back to China very quickly, and the rewards for returning to China, in money and prestige, become tantalizing.
Academic freedom is under assault in the U.S. for other reasons these days. It is in our selfinterest to protect it from those who really don’t have the national interest at heart.
— Mel Gurtov, syndicated by PeaceVoice, is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Portland State University and blogs at In the Human Interest
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