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Candidates debate city governance
n Editor’s note: This is Part 2 of coverage of Wednesday’s League of Women Voters Davis Area candidate forum featuring the two candidates for Davis City Council District 3. Part 1 ran in Friday’s Enterprise.
Students walk through the UCLA campus in Los Angeles on Feb. 18, 2022. State Lawmakers want to see the UC system take in more California students.
By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer
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: Will you have the courage to challenge opinions and votes of other council members even if you need to stand alone? Wright: Absolutely. One of the things about district elections, not that I think it’s the best … process for electing our candidates, but it gives
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Lawmakers want UC to enroll more Californians By Mikhail Zinshteyn CalMatters “Frustrating.” One word, uttered under breath by a California lawmaker, captured a sentiment, at times boiling over into anger, among legislators struggling to get more California students into the University of California.
What Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, D-Sacramento, found frustrating Tuesday was the UC’s seeming refusal to adopt the same systemwide guaranteed admissions policy for transfer students that the California State University has. But it was one of several expressions of legislative aggravation over the UC’s — and to a lesser degree, the Cal State’s —
struggles to educate more Californians during an Assembly budget subcommittee on education hearing. There’s an emotional and fiscal component to lawmakers’ disappointment. As chairperson of the subcommittee, McCarty frequently references parents telling him about their children who graduate high school with GPAs above 4.0 but
aren’t accepted to a UC of their choice. To try and get more Californians into the vaunted public university system, the Legislature has recently given or promised the UC:
n $51.5 million last summer to enroll the equivalent of 4,700 more full-time California students by 2023-24 — up from
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UCLA scientist returns to UCD for seminar Vaitla appeals approval of U-Mall redevelopment By Monica Stark Enterprise staff writer
The UC Davis Institute of the Environment announced UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain will come to campus on April 5 from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in the multi-purpose room of the UC Davis Student Community Center. Free and open to the public, the event will highlight Swain’s studies of the Earth’s changing climate. Swain has been attracting a fair amount of attention for his research as of late, and organizers have seen strong interest from the community in the event. According to the official announcement of the event, titled Seminar
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Series: Climate Scientist Daniel Swain, he’ll discuss the rising risk SWAIN of “Scientistdroughts communicator” and “megafloods” in a warming climate and the climate-related factors driving the recent surge in wildfire severity in California and across the broader American West. Swain holds joint appointments as a climate scientist within UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, a research fellow in the
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Capacity Center for Climate and Weather Extremes at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and the California Climate Fellow at The Nature Conservancy, according to his biography include on the event announcement. In an interview with The Enterprise, Swain said the No. 1 key point is that even in a part of the world where we don’t necessarily expect to see considerable changes in average precipitation in California, we expect profound shifts in hydroclimate extremes, very wet events, and the floods, increasing on the one hand, and very dry events. “While
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By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer Davis City Councilman Bapu Vaitla has appealed the Planning Commission’s approval of a retailonly redevelopment of University Mall. The City Council will decide Tuesday whether to entertain the appeal and schedule a public hearing on the matter. There will be no discussion by council members on Tuesday on the merits of the project; rather, they will only vote on whether to place Vaitla’s appeal on a future agenda for a public hearing. The Planning Commission voted 5-2 on March 8
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to approve the project plans, which involve demolition of 97,000 square feet of mall space at the Russell Boulevard site and construction of 114,000 square feet of commercial retail and restaurant space. Gone are the hundreds of housing units originally planned for the project and approved by the City Council nearly three years ago. Those housing units would have been part of a vertical mixed-use project, with housing on the upper floors and retail, office space and parking beneath.
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