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Watch Historic Houses Get New Neighborhood!

Over the past few years, I’ve spent much of my free time in The People’s Republic of Davis at the homes of friends whom all happen to live along B Street between 3rd & 4th Streets, directly across from Central Park.  In between Ciocolat and the Davis Townhouses, there exist a row of older single [...]

This Week in YOUR Government

Our new City Council has been duly inaugurated, seated, and feted.  Now, time for them to get down to work.  Although they’ll be taking the customary August break, this Council (under the organizational leadership of Mayor Don Saylor), has already completed laying the groundwork for a very productive session.  In the past, Council appointments to [...]

This Weekend in The People’s Republic

Hello Davis!  Now this is what blogging is really about. Our esteemed regular socialite, Lucy, is unable to be with us this glorious Friday… so, I’ve been called in at the last minute to feed you… my never-sated blogosphere! I’m now camped out at Crepeville, slurping down caffeinated beverages, frantically culling this week’s social and [...]

2nd St. Downtown to Get Some Love

In August of 2009, I shared with you my odd dreams of machinery digging into the streets around my home in downtown Davis. Yesterday morning, I awoke to what I was convinced was some big-toothed behemoth of a machine digging into the asphalt at the corner of 2nd & C Streets. But, when I [...]

Garbage to Games: Converting Landfills to Parks

The City of Davis is currently studying the concept of allowing the development of a sports park on the old landfill. With the combination of excess methane, unattractive aesthetics, and the overall smell a landfill contains, it is not surprising that there is concern. What many do not know is that thousands of landfills are [...]