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FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 2023
Mace redesign plan moves forward By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer
Atherton, one of the nation’s richest communities, has California’s highest concentration of electric cars. Martin do Nascimento/ CalMatters photo
Who buys electric cars in California? And who doesn’t? By Nadia Lopez and Erica Yee CalMatters In Atherton, one of the nation’s richest towns, giant oaks and well-manicured hedges surround gated mansions owned by some of Silicon Valley’s most prominent billionaires, basketball stars, tech executives and venture capitalists.
Each set on an acre of land, six-bedroom estates, brickpaved pathways, neoclassical statues and cascading fountains are on full display. But increasingly, another status symbol has been parked in these driveways: a shiny electric car — sometimes two. This tiny San Mateo County community — with an average home value of almost $7.5 million and average household income exceeding half a million
dollars — has California’s highest percentage of electric cars, according to a CalMatters analysis of data from the Energy Commission. About one out of every seven, or 14%, of Atherton’s 6,261 cars are electric. CalMatters’ statewide analysis of ZIP codes reveals a strikingly homogenous portrait of who owns electric vehicles in California: Communities with mostly white and Asian, collegeeducated and high-income
residents have the state’s highest concentrations of zero-emission cars. And most are concentrated in Silicon Valley cities and affluent coastal areas of Los Angeles and Orange counties. This racial and economic divide may be unsurprising — but it illustrates the mammoth task that California faces as it tries to electrify its 25 million cars to battle climate change,
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Leading the charge on lighting By Monica Stark Enterprise staff writer As we move our clocks twice a year, nurses working the night shift have to alter their internal clocks every day on the job. “When night shift nurses drive home at 7:30 a.m., the daylight resets their circadian pacemakers in the retina. This daylight exposure amplifies desynchronization of the circadian rhythm,” according to a 1995 Journal of Holistic Nursing article by Joan Efinger, Lucille C. Nelson, and Julia M. Walsh Starr, titled, “Understanding circadian rhythms: a holistic approach to nurses and shift work.” The nearly
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Serena Marini describes a folding light that uses organic LEDs in 2015 at the California Lighting Technology Center. 30-year-old article says that research found
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A year after approving concepts for the redesign of Mace Boulevard (aimed at fixing what local residents dubbed the “Mace mess”), the Davis City Council on Tuesday approved design plans that will enable to the city to put the project out to bid. But the council also voiced support for adding into the designs a two-way cycle track on the west side of Mace that will enable residents living to the west to bicycle more easily to destinations to the north such as Nugget Markets without having to cross Mace twice. Adding that to the project designs will likely delay putting the project out to bid by four to six weeks, according to city staff. The changes approved by the council back in March 2022, and included in the designs approved Tuesday, include restoration of a second traffic lane in each direction as many residents of South Davis and El Macero had sought. Those lanes were removed as part of a traffic calming and bicycle safety project that was completed in 2018 thanks to a $3 million grant from the
increased awareness of circadian rhythms may help to reduce the multiple risks to nurses’ health and enhance quality of life and that there is a significant decrease in job performance and in satisfaction and quality of patient care. In the hospital setting, researchers at the UC Davis California Lighting Technology Center are working to minimize these circadian rhythm disruptions with amber-orange colors and automatic lighting. As CLTC director Michael Siminovitch, Ph.D. said, “We’re powering the human connection with lighting that makes sense.”
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Bisch files second lawsuit over Yolo Food Bank firing By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer Eight months after filing a wrongful termination lawsuit against the Yolo Food Bank, former executive director Michael Bisch has filed a separate lawsuit in federal court alleging city and county officials violated his free speech and due process rights and defamed him, leading to that termination. Named in the federal lawsuit are the city managers of Davis, Woodland and West Sacramento; former Yolo County Supervisor Don Saylor of Davis and current
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Supervisors Oscar Villegas of West Sacramento and Angel Barajas of the rural 5th District. Yolo County and the cities of Davis, West Sacramento and Woodland are also named, as is former interim County Administrator Chad Rinde (now the county’s chief financial officer). Bisch is seeking damages for violations of his First and Fourth Amendment rights as well as for tortious interference with contractual relations and defamation. “This case concerns
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