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Letter: Thanks to the community! It is with immense gratitude that I write to you, my Davis community. The Davis Community Church Gift Project 2020 (our 22nd year) went off without a hitch! You are all so generous, so kind, and so thoughtful to include in your Christmas planning the children of the DCC Gift Project. We provided for: * infants in the CommuniCare PNDT program * boys housed in the Progress Ranch Group Home * children enrolled in the Yolo Crisis Nursery * Pamma’s Shoe Closet, for...

Watch ‘Downtown Tom’s Christmas’ for free 1 minute read Young actor Miller Traum stars as Tom in “Downtown Tom’s Christmas — a Mini Musical,” available to watch for free online. Courtesy photo Support Local Journalism For years, Davis residents and visitors knew Downtown Tom — a full-grown male turkey who roamed the city’s downtown streets, leaving an impression wherever he wandered. And while the real-life Tom met a somewhat inharmonious fate, he has inspired an assortment o...

Are you a book lover? Read on We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Are you a book lover? Read on Save Normal text size Advertisement This week we launched our first edition of The Booklist, our weekly newsletter about books, reading and writing. What a time to start - at the end of a tumultuous year that has brought us fire, floods and a pandemic. If youre inclined to look on the bright side - I am - one of the best things about it has been t...

According to The Sydney Morning Herald, the NSW government is exploring whether airlines are able to test passengers and staff for COVID-19 ahead of international flights, in a scheme that could prioritise high-risk countries and be adopted in other states and territories for a consistent national approach. State residents in Batemans Bay and Liverpool have meanwhile been asked to come forward for testing (if symptomatic) following the discovery of virus fragments in local sewage, although cur...

Are you a book lover? Read on We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Are you a book lover? Read on Save Normal text size Advertisement This week we launched our first edition of The Booklist, our weekly newsletter about books, reading and writing. What a time to start - at the end of a tumultuous year that has brought us fire, floods and a pandemic. If youre inclined to look on the bright side - I am - one of the best things about it has been t...

Appoint another supreme court justice or maybe it was -- anyway, at some point he coined the phrase. mitch mcconnell and two of my former politico colleagues wrote a book about congress. in it they make it clear that mcconnell cares about winning. thats his big concern to your point that hes got a like-minded fellow in donald trump. if there is a similarity between these different men its that they care about power, wins and dont care about the other costs. >> and the court. they found a common ...

Her facial suppressions aexpres is going through her mind. my get is she will stay out of it as long as she can. >> biancas mom says her daughter is quiet, an avid reader and not big on social media. she also says bianca has been the target of terrible bullying, some of it even physical. >> so she knows how it feels to be the victim. >> yeah. >> she says she has told bianca to speak up for herself. >> now days if you dont do anything, theyre constantly coming back because youre not defending you...

>> reporter: so what will happen when our victim is angel, an actress who we asked to appear immature, awkward, even irritating. any nat of rosalind coaching angel in the rehearsal. >>like, think of the person who interrupts all the time and then tells their own story. >> reporter: angel says when she was younger, she was targeted by bullies. >> i apparently had a reputation for being annoying in school. >> reporter: lets see how our next teens do. first up, grace. >> im 13 and i use instagram. ...

Do you think the presidents speech will have any impact on voters in your district skeptical of this plan? >> i thought the moral case was very persuasive quite frankly and compelling. when you ask yourself when this is over, what do i remember? i remember that were an exceptional nation, that what assad did violated the basic laws of humanity. and if we dont act who will. and they expect us to look the other way and we cant afford. to so heres the takeaway for me. after the leader of the free w...

Fails, not to act. so if diplomacy fails hes painted himself in a corner. the leader of the free world cant say all these things at the end of the day do nothing. >> one thing i read in your twitter feed, of which im an avid reader as is america. >> you need to get a life. >> is that you dont think he made the national security case. what is the national security case? >> well, look at it this way. iran. one line about iran. of all the things they worry about changing the world for the worst, it...