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SUNDAY, JANUARY 26, 2020
After 50 years, I think I got the hang of this T omorrow, Jan. 27, of 2020, marks the 50th anniversary of my employment at this newspaper I call home. As a colleague termed it the other day, this is the conclusion “of the first 50 years.”
Yes, I hope there are 50 more, but you never know what the Good Lord has waiting just around the corner. I’ve never had a 5-year plan or a 10-year plan or, heaven forbid, a 50-year plan. If it works for me today, I’m happy. I’ll worry about tomorrow, tomorrow.
One of my favorite roadside signs is the one I’ve seen numerous times outside a small tavern near Brookings on the southern Oregon coast.
5G rules on council agenda Tuesday
“Free Beer Tomorrow,” it says. Tomorrow never comes, of course, because it’s always today. That’s the way it is in the newspaper business, too. You’re only as good as your last story or column or headline. The news of the day fades fast, to be replaced by something even more compelling. That’s why they call it “news.” There’s nothing worse than reading a day-old newspaper. You may think you’re “catching up,” but even as you read it, you’re falling further behind.
The other day a friend asked me about my memories of working for The Hub, the excellent newspaper put out by students at Davis High School, my alma mater. I never wrote for The Hub.
My mother used to tell people she remembers me writing for The California Aggie during my undergraduate days at UC Davis. I never wrote for The California Aggie. In fact, during my freshman year the powers that be at our great local university required
me to take a remedial, noncredit course called Subject A — better known as “Bonehead English” — before allowing me to enroll in Real English.
If you had told me then that I’d spend 50 years writing for a newspaper, I wouldn’t have believed you. Heck, if you’d told me I’d spend 50 minutes writing for a newspaper, I wouldn’t have believed you. But there I was at 5 a.m. on Jan. 27, 1970, sitting at a desk in
SEE DUNNING, PAGE A4
DPAC sticks with Trackside decision
Rural collision
BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY
BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer
Enterprise staff writer
Opposition to 5G highspeed internet service — and, specifically, the small cell antenna systems that must be deployed in large numbers to provide it — has been seen and heard around the country over the last two years as federal law has limited the ability of local government to regulate the service. 5G has been hailed by enthusiasts as a game changer, increasing the rate of data transfer by 100 times or more, but controversial to those who fear the significant increase in devices transmitting radio frequency signals in their neighborhoods. 5G will require a multitude of small cells to be mounted on utility poles along public thoroughfares. Opponents in Davis have been vocal as well, urging city planning commissioners and the City Council to take action to prevent the deployment of 5G locally because of the health risks they believe it poses. But city staff say the Federal Communications Commission has placed substantial new limitations on cities’ ability to regulate small wireless facilities and prohibits the city from regulating any wireless facilities based on radio frequency emissions or health impacts. Thus staff are recommending that the City Council on Tuesday amend the municipal code to bring the city’s wireless communications regulations into compliance with federal law and approve a resolution establishing permitting requirements and development standards for
The Downtown Plan Advisory Committee’s recommendation that the Trackside property be allowed to go up to four stories will stand after the committee on Thursday declined to rescind its previous vote. The decision made Thursday evening came after committee members who were accused of having a conflict of interest recused themselves and the motion to rescind the previous vote failed on a 4-to-5 vote with one abstention. Back in November, the
COURTESY PHOTO
The Davis Fire Department captured these images of a Wednesday morning collision involving a garbage truck and a vehicle at County Roads 20 and 101A. The driver of the vehicle sustained minor injuries in the crash, according to the California Highway Patrol, which is investigating the cause of the wreck.
Davis school district suing Juul UCD professor sheds light on coronavirus
Enterprise staff
The Davis school district filed a lawsuit last week against Juul Labs, Inc. for the company’s role in cultivating and fostering an e-cigarette epidemic that disrupts the education and learning environment across the District. The suit was filed in the Yolo County Superior Court on Jan. 22 (Case No. CV2093). The Davis district’s lawsuit was filed on the same day as those filed by the Chico Unified School District and Campbell Union High School District. Numerous other California school districts — large and small — have filed similar lawsuits in recent months. The Davis district’s lawsuit follows those filed by the Los Angeles Unified School District, San Diego Unified
School District, Glendale Unified School District, Compton Unified School District, King City Union School District, Ceres Unified School District and Anaheim Elementary School District, all against Juul for the same negligence and nuisance claims. The lawsuit seeks injunction and abatement to stop the e-cigarette epidemic, which has severely impacted the District by interfering with normal school operations. The Davis district also seeks compensatory damages to provide relief from the district’s financial losses as a result of students being absent from school, coordinating outreach and education programs regarding the health risks of vaping, and enforcement actions such as staff to monitor the school’s property in an effort to
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SEE TRACKSIDE, PAGE A4
INDEX
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SEE JUUL, PAGE A3
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WEATHER Tod Early Today: showers. High 62. sh Low 42. Page B8 Lo
BY CALEB HAMPTON Enterprise staff writer UC Davis professor of epidemiology Christine Kreuder Johnson answered questions about the coronavirus outbreak Friday on the San Francisco-based radio station KQED’s “Forum” program. The interview aired as the virus’s death toll continued to climb and health officials reported the outbreak was spreading further from its epicenter in central China. Kreuder Johnson currently works with USAID’s Emerging Pandemic Threats PREDICT project, directing animal and human surveillance activities to detect disease spillover, amplification and spread. At UC Davis, she trains graduate students in wildlife epidemiology and
disease ecology. As of Saturday, at least 56 people in China had died from an illness linked to coronavirus and more than 1,300 had fallen sick from it, according to Chinese officials. China announced Saturday it would begin enforcing greater travel restrictions, suspending inter-province buses and stopping the sale of international flight and hotel packages for Chinese citizens headed abroad starting Monday. The virus has spread to at least 11 other countries, with cases confirmed in Europe, Australia, Canada and the United States. Some health officials have traced the outbreak to a market in Wuhan, the capital of China’s
SEE CORONAVIRUS, PAGE A3
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