The Davis Enterprise Sunday, November 8, 2020

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Home-state advantage Vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris addresses a campaign rally in Reno on Oct. 27. With the former California attorney general and senator in the No. 2 job in Washington for the next four years, the state has seen its influence expand massively.

BY LAUREN KEENE Enterprise staff writer

the political power and a diverse electorate elevated Harris — the child of immigrants from India and Jamaica — to the United States Senate. She emphasized her California roots when she launched her short-lived campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination last year, calling herself a “proud daughter of Oakland” as she stood before its city hall, not far from the hospital where she was born. Her deep ties to California include a friendship with Gov. Gavin Newsom that goes back decades. She was sworn in as

Assaults, burglaries and vehicle thefts are up. Rapes and robberies are down. Those are the main takeaways from 2020 crime statistics released last week by the Davis Police Department, charting activity from Jan. 1 to Oct. 25, compared to the same period last year. During the nearly 10-month period, police received 44 aggravated assault reports, compared to 30 during the same time frame last year, a nearly 47 percent boost. The average for the past five years is 37. Car thefts rose by just over 53 percent, from 73 to 112, while burglaries saw a 37-percent increase, from 211 to 289. Davis Police Chief Darren Pytel said many of the reported assaults have fallen into the domesticviolence category, something that law-enforcement leaders nationwide have linked to coronavirus-triggered lockdown orders. “Similar trends are being seen around the country and are widely attributed to increased stress and anxiety, and couples lashing out at each other,” Pytel said. As for vehicle thefts, those numbers are up across the state.

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What a Vice President Kamala Harris means for California BY LAUREL ROSENHALL

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Kamala Harris — California’s junior senator and former state attorney general — made history this week when American voters chose Biden to replace Republican President Donald Trump. She’ll become the first vice president who is a woman, a woman of color and a California Democrat.

Goodbye, state of resistance. Hello, state of influence. California’s status has shifted dramatically with the election of Joe Biden as the next president. The reasons are both political — deep blue California will have more inroads to a White House controlled by Democrats — and personal: For just the second time in American history, a Californian will

It’s a significant boost for a state that in recent years has held a high profile in Congress,

No changes to local races following Friday vote update BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer Additional votes counted by the Yolo County elections office since Tuesday have made little difference in local races. More than 30,000 ballots remain to be processed with no breakdown provided on how many of those are from the city of Davis. In the new returns announced Friday, Vice Mayor Lucas Frerichs, Councilman Will Arnold and candidate Josh Chapman held the same leads over their opponents that they had late Tuesday. In District 2, with 613

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more votes counted, Arnold still had more than 51 percent of the vote. Challenger Dillan Horton’s share of the vote had increased slightly from 26.87 percent to 27.56 percent while Colin Walsh’s share was unchanged at 21 percent. So far 4,056 votes have been counted in that district. In District 3, where 713 more votes were counted, Frerichs continued to lead Larry Guenther by 66 percent to 34 percent. So far 4,787 votes have been counted in District 2. Guenther conceded that race on Wednesday.

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but little sway at the White House. Congressional leaders from both parties, Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and GOP Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, hail from the Golden State. But the last Californian president was Ronald Reagan more than 30 years ago. And the last Californian vice president was Richard Nixon — 60 years ago. California has changed radically since then. Once the home of a thriving conservative movement that propelled Republicans Nixon and Reagan to national prominence, it’s now a state where Democrats hold all

Education frontrunners School board considers see leads hold steady return-to-campus options BY JEFF HUDSON Enterprise staff writer The Yolo County Elections Office released an updated summary of general election returns late Friday afternoon, based on vote totals based on 100 percent of precincts reporting. And in regards to the Davis school board, the Yolo County Office of Education, and the Los Rios Community College District’s governing board, Friday’s vote tally reflected pretty much the same outcome as the initial batch of early precinct returns released last Tuesday evening.

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In the Davis school district’s contest for an atlarge school board seat (with a two-year term), Vigdis Asmundson received 18,567 votes (83.56). Andrew Cullen received 3,654 votes (16.44 percent). Asmundson is now in position to fill out the remaining two years of the four-year term of former school board trustee Cindy Pickett, who moved to Chicago during Summer 2020 to begin a new job at DePaul University. And in the Davis school district’s Trustee Area 5

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Enterprise staff writer During Thursday night’s Davis school board meeting, the Davis school board continued its ongoing discussion about an eventual reopening of local school campuses. The school board trustees face a gnarly decision, one that hinges on many different factors, some of them outside the school board’s control, including the number of new coronavirus cases in Yolo County. Last week, Yolo County posted rising coronavirus statistics that concerned local health authorities

and could — if similar statistics occur again this week — push the Yolo County from its present Red Tier status back into the more restrictive Purple Tier, resulting in the reimposition of measures along the lines of the measures taken last summer, including requiring many local businesses to close indoor business operations or reduce capacity. At one point some weeks ago, school district administrators spoke of beginning a possible return to campus in late January 2021. But with

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