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Last defendant sentenced for teens’ murders By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer
With TA’s on strike across the University of California system, students at UC Davis have finals week upon them. Monica Stark/ Enterprise photo
Finals week arrives during strike By Monica Stark Enterprise staff writer UC Davis undergraduates are navigating finals week, this fourth week of the largest higher education strike in the country’s history. Saturday is the fall quarter commencement. Students say finals have been disorganized due to the strike because teacher assistants in some classes dictate how the finals will go.
“Once the TAs went on strike, the teachers themselves had problems figuring out final material and what to assign students and basically what we’re doing,” Cole Rubinowicz, an undeclared second-year student from Chicago, said. Rubinowicz experienced multiple teacher strikes during his K-12 education. The difference, he said, was that officials canceled school, while at UCD, classes continued without his TAs.
The learning experience with and without a TA was evident when they were gone. Catherine Katherine Htut, a third-year biochemistry major, said it’s “kind of impossible to learn on your own,” describing an experience she had in Physics where grad students hold discussions in smaller groups. “It’s been hard, so we’ve been just watching online videos and stuff like that.” As the postdocs and academic
researchers, represented by the United Auto Workers, continue striking in sympathy with the academic student employees and student researchers, more faculty names have been added to a grade strike list. In what is deemed their “strongest possible solidarity with the largest university strike in United States history,” some faculty have pledged to “honor the
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WOODLAND — For the third time, the families of Enrique Rios and Elijah Moore entered a Yolo County courtroom to witness a sentencing for the teens’ abductions and murders. The first was in December 2018, when David Ashley Froste received life without the possibility of parole for orchestrating the killings, his revenge for being robbed of $300 worth of marijuana. They returned back in May, as Froste’s accomplices Chandale Shannon Jr. and Jesus Campos got life terms for their own roles in the crimes. Wednesday marked their final proceeding in Yolo Superior Court Judge David Rosenberg’s courtroom, where
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Enrique Rios, left, and Elijah Moore, as they were pictured in missing-person fliers following their disappearances in 2016.
New blood, Big Oil at Legislature Council members favor By Alexei Koseff and Sameea Kamal CalMatters California regulators would cap the profit margin for oil refiners and could fine companies that exceed that limit under a proposal announced Monday by Gov. Gavin Newsom, the latest escalation in his battle with the oil industry over a summer of record gas prices. Newsom unveiled the measure, which does not yet include key details such as how much profit oil refiners would be allowed or the size of possible fines, on the same day that newly-elected legislators arrived in Sacramento to be sworn in — and to declare a
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special session to consider the plan that the governor has dubbed a “price gouging penalty.”
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In brief remarks to reporters at the state Capitol, Newsom said the fines would act as a deterrent to future price spikes. He said he would take the next month or more to fill in the blanks of the bill, in consultation with lawmakers, who are set to reconvene Jan. 4 to begin the new session in earnest.
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“I believe in free enterprise, I just don’t believe in greed,” Newsom said. “These guys have been gaming the system for decades. They’ve been taking advantage of you for decades. And it’s got to end.” While legislators were hesitant Monday to embrace the half-formed proposal — even state Sen. Nancy Skinner, the Berkeley Democrat who introduced the bill, told CalMatters that it was the governor’s plan and she “put it across the desk to make sure the vetting process can begin” — oil companies quickly condemned it as a wrongheaded
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voluntary electrification By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer
The Davis City Council voted Tuesday night in favor of a voluntary approach to building electrification, at least for several years, before reassessing whether to make mandatory a requirement that homeowners replace gas appliances with electric at the end of their useful life. The 4-1 vote, with Mayor Lucas Frerichs voting against the plan, followed lengthy public comment, including from numerous local real estate professionals worried
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about the fiscal impact on homeowners. Building electrification is just one of the recommended actions in the city’s draft 2020-2040 Climate Action and Adaptation Plan, but it’s the one that has drawn the most public comment over the last year. A recommended action that would have required gas appliances to be replaced with electric ones when a home is sold was previously removed from the draft plan due to community opposition. Under the approach
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