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Council moves ahead with two land projects By Monica Stark Enterprise staff writer
needs to clear each chamber in the state Legislature by a twothirds vote. So far the measure has passed two committees in the state Assembly and awaits a hearing in a third. Beyond those basic details, though, there’s little agreement over what impact the measure would have on California.
After continuing a discussion that went to nearly 2 a.m. at the June 6 Davis City Council meeting on key decisions regarding the future of peripheral development in Davis, members voted Tuesday 4-1 (Bapu Vaitla dissenting) to advance the environmental impact reports of the proposed Village Farms and Shriner’s projects. The vote pushes the proposals for ballot measures for March 2025 for Village Farms and June 2026 for Shriner’s. Regarding the two timelines, City Manager Mike Webb said the process would be akin to running on parallel tracks but at potentially very different speeds. “There’s pros and cons to each of those speeds for various reasons.” Spanning from the northern to the eastern farmlands, a crescent of five parcels is in city design review in a process that includes environmental review before hitting the ballot box. To Vaitla, the city is facing a situation it has never faced before and may never face again with all of the
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Students walk past the Doe Memorial Library UC Berkeley in 2022. Thalia Juarez/ CalMatters photo
Affirmative action back on ballot? By Mikhail Zinshteyn CalMatters California voters may soon vote on whether they support using state money to fund programs that improve the health, education or economic wellbeing of specific racial, ethnic and sexual or gender groups. “Didn’t we already vote this down in 2020?” a voter may rightfully ask, referring to
the failed campaign of Proposition 16, which sought to undo California’s voter-approved 1996 ban on using race, sex, national origin and ethnicity as a factor in public university admissions and other state programs. The latest effort, known as Assembly Constitutional Amendment 7, wouldn’t fully overturn Proposition 209, which created the country’s first
ban on affirmative action 27 years ago. Instead, it would allow state agencies to send the governor a waiver request to avoid Proposition 209’s restrictions, as long as the exception is based on scholarly research. The aim is to have the constitutional amendment appear as a proposition on the November 2024 ballot, when voters will decide the country’s next president. To get there, the measure
Native American students unveil mural Competency doubt declared in road-rage case
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WOODLAND — Woodland-area community members came together to celebrate the unveiling of a cultural mural created by Native youths as part of a project on June 16 — and attendees were able to add their own handprint to the mural. The mural at Douglass Middle School is the culmination of a series of cultural workshops for Native American students organized by Native Dads Network and in collaboration with the Woodland Joint Unified School District’s American Indian Parent Committee. It comes two weeks after the district held its first-ever Native Student
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By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer A Yolo Superior Court judge delayed next month’s scheduled trial for a Davis road-rage suspect after his attorney declared a doubt regarding his mental competency. Courtesy photo
A mural at Woodland’s Douglass Middle School is the culmination of a series of cultural workshops for Native American students organized by Native Dads Network. Promotion and Graduation Ceremony in June. “This mural encapsulates what I hope to bring to my collaborative role at the
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school district,” said Joshina Cluff, Chair of the Woodland Joint Unified
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Andre Chevill Wilson will now undergo a psychiatric evaluation “due to significant delusions,” Deputy Public Defender Dan Hutchinson, standing in Wednesday for Wilson’s public defender Aram Davtyan, told Judge Daniel Maguire earlier this week.
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“It is our opinion that he is not competent to proceed with a WILSON jury “Significant trial,” delusions” Hutchinson said, also noting that Wilson had twice refused transport to court for his proceedings.
Maguire suspended Wilson’s criminal case and vacated the jury trial that was scheduled to
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