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Candidates weigh in on city finances, housing
Reaching for the top Rocknasium summits three decades of community
n Editor’s note: This is Part 1 of coverage of Wednesday’s League of Women Voters Davis Area candidate forum featuring the two candidates for Davis City Council District 3. Part two will run in Sunday’s Enterprise.
By Aaron Geerts Enterprise staff writer When it first opened in 1992, Rocknasium became not only Davis’ go-to spot for indoor rock climbing, but one of the first gyms of its kind in the country. Thirty-one years later, the Rocknasium stands tall on a mountain of success while remaining grateful for the community that makes visiting this gym such an incredible experience. With amazing places to climb (relatively) nearby like Lake Tahoe or Yosemite, the Rocknasium was created to give climbers an off-season place to train. Nowadays, it’s a self-described full-service community climbing gym where everyone from every walk — or climb — of life and skill level is welcome. “We have a nice welcoming opportunity and package for first-timers,” said Rocknasium general manager and jack-of-alltrades facilitator, Imani Latif. “You can just walk in and we’ll get you started learning how to do different types of climbing like bouldering. That’s climbing without a rope
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Rocknasium member Daniel Coral tackles a climbing wall. Regardless of skill level, Davis’ Rocknasium has challenges for everyone, including a 16-foot boulder wall, boulder circuits, 110-plus climbing routes and 22-foot horizontal lead roof.
Police release video of rural shooting By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer West Sacramento police released this week a video compilation showing the events leading up to an officer’s fatal shooting of a Dunnigan man last month. The 11-minute video, which contains potentially disturbing footage from a drone and several officers’ body-worn cameras, can be viewed on YouTube and the West Sacramento Police Department’s website. Hector Valdez Perez, 63, was the subject of an arrest warrant charging him with sex crimes with a child, authorities previously reported. Yolo County SWAT team members attempted to serve that,
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The two candidates seeking the District 3 seat on the Davis City Council weighed in on topics ranging from affordable housing to peripheral development to city finances during an online forum hosted by the League of Women Voters Davis Area on Wednesday evening. Francesca Wright and Donna Neville are vying to succeed former mayor Lucas Frerichs in the May 2 election. At the League forum, the two candidates were asked a series of questions, some provided in advance and others that came from audience members. Here are a collection of some of the questions and answers: How would you assess the current and longterm financial health of the city of Davis? Given your assessment, what are the most important actions
Novelist Robinson to discuss science fiction, climate change By Jeff Hudson Enterprise correspondent
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In drone footage posted on YouTube, Yolo County law-enforcement SWAT Team members use an armored rescue vehicle for cover to approach a trailer in rural Dunnigan in an incident that would end in the fatal shooting of the man they were attempting to arrest. along with a search warrant, on the morning of Feb. 14. “Mr. Perez had a history of violence associated with
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arrests and prior investigations,” including a previous
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Kim Stanley Robinson has been publishing science fiction for 40-plus years, and his carefully researched books often include realistic characterizations of scientists, researching decidedly plausible future trends rooted in present-day problems and situations. In recent years, much of Robinson’s attention has focused on climate change, including his 2017 novel “New York 214o,” which depicts New York after global warming (and the consequent melting of polar ice) has
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caused the sea level to rise, inundating city streets and converting portions of Manhattan into a metropolitan area that in some ways resembles Venice. Along the way, Robinson became one of the few science-fiction writers to publish articles in Scientific American. Time Magazine has singled him out as a “Hero of the Environment.” Robinson has addressed think tanks, and spoken at international climate summits. The New Yorker has referenced him as “one of the most important political
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