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Hyder steps down as School Board trustee By Aaron Geerts Enterprise staff writer
commencements for graduate and professional students. May told the class of 2023 to take a look around, recognize, and celebrate all the sacrifices, all the lost sleep, the stresses of exams and essays, and perhaps missed opportunities to hang with family and friends back home. “But now your moment has finally arrived. For the moms and the dads and the other family members: I’m sure a lot of memories are flashing through your mind. You might
It was a somber mood that gripped the school board meeting on Thursday, June 15, as it marked the departure of Trustee, Betsy Hyder. Although there was much to adhere on the agenda, the meeting kicked off with heartfelt goodbyes from Hyder’s fellow Trustees. After the words of praise and affection, HYDER Hyder addressed the Bidding board herself. farewell “Life just comes at you sometimes, and I’m not ready to go. I really, really was intentional about this term and next year’s presidency. But the universe is screaming at me and so I will step off and do what I need to do to heal. It has been a traumatic accident that I’ve never experienced before so I’m learning how to heal, and I wanted to be here in person to say to the community, my deepest regrets that I wasn’t able to finish my term,” Hyder
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UC Davis graduating students take their seats for commencement Friday at the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento.
Blue and Gold(en 1): UCD celebrates grads By Monica Stark Enterprise staff writer The UC Davis community will have celebrated 7,000 graduates by the end of the weekend with five ceremonies held for the first time at the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento. About 6,950 students registered to participate in the undergraduate commencements, with about 1,300 to 1,460 students and thousands of guests expected at each ceremony. Punctuating the opening,
soprano Crisia Regaldo, of Los Angeles sang the National Anthem on Friday and had been expected to sing on Sunday. Guest speaker Darrell Steinberg, mayor of Sacramento since 2016, spoke via a recorded video to all five undergraduate ceremonies. On Saturday, top graduating senior Neeraj Senthil of Sunnyvale will have received the University Medal as the top graduating senior at the commencement. Besides being a star student in biomedical engineering and earning a provisional patent, and
co-authoring a research paper, he has cuddled sick babies at UCD Medical Center and teaches math at local schools. With a mix of pre-recorded speeches from university deans and live speeches from UC Davis Chancellor Gary S. May, Amber Boydstun, professor and director of graduate studies for the Department of Political Science in the College of Letters and Science, and outstanding student C. Sophia Mares de Juan, Friday’s ceremony was just part of the five undergraduate commencements and seven
‘No more excuses’: Leaders speak out on gun violence awareness By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer Yolo County leaders outlined Friday the creation of a local collaboration aimed at taking a preventive stance on gun violence. The announcement came at a Central Park news conference marking National Gun Violence Awareness Month and National Gun Violence Awareness Day of Action, where speakers highlighted California’s efforts at curbing gunrelated deaths and the ongoing need for further action on all sides of the political aisle. “Every day 30 people are
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killed by someone using a gun,” said Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, organizer of the event, which featured representatives of law enforcement agencies, the medical community and volunteer groups such as Moms Demand Action, along with local, county and state elected leaders. “This year alone, we’ve had more mass shootings than we’ve had days of the year,” said Thompson, who also serves as chair of Congress’ Gun Violence Prevention Task Force. He added that gunfire remains the leading cause of death for young children and
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teens, “and that’s shameful.” Friday’s speakers included California Attorney General Rob Bonta, who spoke of his personal experience with gun violence — a disturbing text he and his wife received from their eldest child. “Mom and Dad, I’m in lockdown because of an active shooter,” the teen texted from her East Bay Area high school, according to Bonta, who recalled the period of fear and uncertainty that followed that alert. The incident ended
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Legislative Dems make budget offer to Newsom By Alexei Koseff CalMatters Still yet to strike a budget deal with Gov. Gavin Newsom, legislative Democrats have put their own spending priorities into a bill that they plan to pass this week ahead of a critical deadline. The proposal, which was published online late Sunday, represents an agreement between the Democratic caucuses of the state Senate and Assembly, both of which hold supermajorities and can pass any measure without Republican support. The Legislature is constitutionally
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required to approve a balanced budget by Thursday to get paid. The Assembly and Senate approved the budget bill on Thursday morning, over Republican objections. But negotiations are ongoing with Newsom, including over a looming shortfall in public transit funding and the governor’s push to streamline permitting for infrastructure projects, as California faces a budget deficit estimated to be more than $30 billion. They have just weeks remaining to work out a compromise
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