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The Davis Joint Unified School District Board of Education held its annual reorganization of its officers for 2025: Joe DiNunzio as board president, Hiram Jackson, vice president; Lea Darrah , legislative liaison and Yolo County School Boards Association representative; and Superintendent Matt Best as board secretary. All appointments were unanimously voted upon. Additionally, the following appointments were made for committees and subcommittees. Subcommittee appointments: Facilities and real estate assets standing subcommittee: Trustee Elizabeth Moon and DiNunzio Budget and fiscal subcommittee: Jackson and DiNunzio Board policy subcommittee: Darrah and Moon Superintendent's evaluation subcommittee: Moon and DiNunzio Legal committee: Trustee Cecilia Escamilla-Greenwald and Darrah Parcel tax subcommittee: Jackson and DiNunzio Strategic planning committee: Moon and Jackson 2x2 committees City of Davis: Moon and DiNunzio Yolo County: Escamilla-Greenwald and Jackson UC Davis: Escamilla-Greenwald and Moon. California School Employees Association : Darrah and Moon Davis Teachers Association: Jackson and DiNunzio DTAC district Technology Advisory Committee: Darrah LCAP: Escamilla Greenwald Davis School Arts Foundation: Jackson Davis Schools Foundation: DiNunzio Farm to School project: Moon Athletic program and coach liaison: Darrah Darrah: Holmes Junior High, Birch Lane Elementary, the migrant education program, North Davis. Jackson:Patwin Elementary, Emerson Junior High. Cesar Chavez Elementary and the Early Childhood Learning Center Moon: Pioneer Elementary, Korematsu Elementary, the Davis School for Independent Study and the Adult Education Program Escamilla-Greenwald: Marguerite Montgomery Elementary, Harper Junior High, King High School and Fairfield Elementary, DiNunzio: Willett Elementary, Davis Senior High School, Da Vinci and the Davis Parent Nursery School ––––– At the meeting, trustees acknowledged outgoing President Moon for her “calm leadership” and “fierceness.” “ We had some pretty interesting and lively board meetings during the course of her term, and her calm demeanor, despite some very egregious behavior, was very admirable. And she's very thoughtful the way she handles things, and she always leads with her heart which I really appreciate,” Darrah said. DiNunzio called Moon “a fierce advocate for all of our students, for our staff” while ensuring a welcoming environment. “This is more than words. It takes actions,” and Moon’s “wonderful sense of humor,” helps, he said. “Being able to see the light heartedness at times of stress helped all of us to be a more effective governing board under your direction.”CLEVELAND (AP) — Two days before recording another milestone, resume-building sack on Sunday at Cincinnati, Myles Garrett delivered a jarring hit — on the Browns. In this case, any roughness could be deemed necessary. Garrett piled on to what has been a painful and puzzling season in Cleveland by saying he doesn't have any interest in going through another rebuild and wants to know exactly what the organization's offseason plans are to fix things. If that wasn't enough, Garrett indicated for the first time that he would consider leaving the Browns if his vision doesn't mesh with the team's ambitions. “It’s a possibility,” he said of playing elsewhere. "But I want to be a Cleveland Brown. I want to play my career here.” It's unclear how Garrett's comments were received by owners Dee and Jimmy Haslam, who have plenty to consider as the Browns (3-12) head into the final two weeks of a season that began with playoff expectations and could be followed by upheaval. The Browns haven't been this bad since going 0-16 in 2017. Garrett, who reached 100 career sacks by taking down Cincinnati's Joe Burrow late in the first half of Sunday's 24-6 loss , may have either added to the Haslams' long list of concerns — the Deshaun Watson contract situation is a priority — or brought them clarity. There's no denying that Garrett's remarks carry substantial weight, which is partly why he spoke up. He's the Browns' best player, a franchise cornerstone, a future Hall of Famer and arguably the most disruptive defensive force in the game today. He's also leading with actions. Garrett showed extraordinary effort in chasing down and tackling Burrow before tumbling out of bounds and crashing into Cleveland's bench and some portable heaters. He might be frustrated, but he's not giving up. “A testament of who he is as a player and who he is as a person,” linebacker Jordan Hicks said. What the reigning Defensive Player of the Year says matters. It will be interesting to see if the Haslams listen. At this point, there are indications the Browns intend to stick with coach Kevin Stefanski and general manager Andrew Berry, whose major misses in recent drafts have become more magnified with each loss. There will be changes; it's just a matter of how drastic and if they'll be enough to satisfy Garrett's wishes. He turns 29 on Dec. 29 and has two years left on a $125 million contract extension. The All-Pro is in his prime and doesn't want to waste another season in a pointless pursuit of a Super Bowl title. His goal is to win a championship with Cleveland — or someone. Garrett's serious. He's asking the Browns to show him they are, too. Cleveland's defense is doing its part. For the second week in a row, the Browns contained one of the NFL's most talented offenses, holding the Bengals and their top-ranked passing game below most of their season averages. Burrow did throw three TD passes — for the seventh game in a row — but Cincinnati scored fewer than 27 points for the first time in seven games. The Browns continue to beat themselves with costly turnovers, some more costly than others. They drove to the Cincinnati 1-yard line in the opening minutes only to have D'Onta Foreman fumble as he neared the goal line. The Bengals capitalized by driving 99 yards to take a 7-0 lead that could have been Cleveland's. Running back Jerome Ford is making the most of a heavier workload and finishing strong. He ripped off a 66-yard run on the game's first play and finished with 131 all-purpose yards, including 92 on 11 carries and scored Cleveland's only TD. Ford's emergence as a potential No. 1 back — Nick Chubb's injuries have clouded his future — gives the team one less thing to worry about as it retools the roster. Kicker Dustin Hopkins hasn't shaken a startling slump. After being benched for a week to work through his struggles, Hopkins missed his only kick, pushing an extra point to the right. Hopkins felt confident going in, but he's back to trying to identify issues that could be equally mechanical and mental. He's just 16 of 25 on field goals, 16 of 19 on PATs and the Browns' decision to sign him to a three-year, $15.9 million extension this summer looks worse every week. QB Dorian Thompson-Robinson injured his calf early in Sunday's game, leaving his status in doubt for a second straight start this week. If Thompson-Robinson can't go, the Browns could go back to Jameis Winston, but he's dealing with a sore right shoulder. ... Tight end David Njoku is dealing with yet another injury after hurting his knee. The team is awaiting results on an MRI, perhaps a sign of the severity. Njoku has missed time with injuries all season. He finished with eight catches for 66 yards. 20 — Interceptions for the Browns this season. Thompson-Robinson's two picks on Sunday gave the team 10 in the last four games. Probably a half-empty stadium for a final home game on Sunday against the Miami Dolphins, who are still in the hunt for a wild-card spot. AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl
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Israeli aircraft struck a sprawling tent camp housing displaced Palestinians in Gaza on Wednesday, killing at least 21 people, according to a local health official, setting off fires in the coastal tent city that Israel has designated a humanitarian zone but which has been repeatedly targeted. The Israeli military said it struck senior Hamas militants “involved in terrorist activities” in the area, without providing additional details, and said it took precautions to minimize harm to civilians. The strikes were the latest deadly assault in the war-wracked Gaza Strip, where Israel's offensive against Hamas is nearly 14 months old and showing no end in sight, despite international efforts to revive negotiations toward a ceasefire. The Biden administration has pledged to make a new push to get a ceasefire for Gaza after Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah agreed to end more than a year of cross-border fighting. And President-elect Donald Trump demanded in a social media post this week the release of hostages held by Hamas before he is sworn into office in January. The strike Wednesday in Muwasi, a desolate area with few public services that holds hundreds of thousands of displaced people, also wounded at least 28 people, according to Atif Al-Hout, the director of Nasser Hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis. An Associated Press journalist at the hospital counted at least 15 bodies, but he said reaching a precise number was difficult because many of the dead were dismembered, some without heads or badly burned. Videos and photos shared widely on social media showed flames and a column of black smoke rising into the night sky, as well as twisted metal tent frames and shredded fabric. Palestinian men searched through the still-burning wreckage, shouting “Over here guys!” Further away, civilians stood at a distance, observing the destruction. The military said the strikes had set off secondary explosions, indicating explosives present in the area had detonated. It was not possible to independently confirm the Israeli claims, and the strikes could also have ignited fuel, cooking gas canisters or other materials in the camp. The strikes followed earlier Israeli attacks on other parts of the Gaza Strip that killed eight people, four of them children, according to Palestinian medics. The military said it had struck “terrorist targets” in a series of strikes. On Wednesday, Israel said its forces recovered the body of one hostage who was captured alive during Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack that sparked the war, yet who Israel believes was killed by his captors. Israel believes about a third of the remaining 100 hostages are dead. The war in Gaza began when Hamas-led militants attacked southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducting around 250 people. Some 100 hostages are still inside Gaza, at least a third of whom are believed to be dead. Israel’s offensive has killed over 44,500 Palestinians in Gaza, mostly women and children, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, which does not say how many were combatants. The Israeli military says it has killed over 17,000 militants, without providing evidence. Israel says it tries to avoid harming civilians and blames Hamas for their deaths because the militants often operate in residential areas and are known to position tunnels, rocket launchers and other infrastructure near homes, schools and mosques. The United States, Qatar and Egypt have spent much of the past year trying to broker a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of the remaining hostages, but those efforts stalled as Israel rejected Hamas’ demand for a complete withdrawal from the territory. Associated Press writer Tia Goldenberg in Jerusalem contributed to this report.
Federal agencies will take a new look at the findings of a four-year, $55 million federal study completed in 2020 that rejected calls to tear down the four lower Snake River dams. A coalition of Northwest power, navigation and agricultural users responded to the federal announcement this week, calling the proposed “redo” of the environmental study “premature and unlawful.” “The proposed environmental review could lead to breaching federal hydropower facilities that serve as the largest source of affordable, reliable, clean energy for millions of people in the region, while also providing world-class, clean river transportation for the region’s and nation’s economies,” said the coalition in a statement. The coalition includes the Public Power Council, the Pacific Northwest Waterways Association, Northwest RiverPartners and others. However, a coalition of environmental and other groups that want the Snake River dams in Eastern Washington removed, applauded the planned update to the study as “a step forward to ensure solutions that honor commitments to restore the Columbia River Basin’s iconic salmon runs.” On Wednesday, a notice of the federal government’s intent to prepare a supplemental environmental impact statement for the Columbia River Systems Operations was posted in the Federal Register. Two federal agencies, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation, are planning to evaluate updated and changed circumstances that they think should be considered in the environmental study and the decision not to breach the Snake River hydroelectric dams in Washington. The agencies will consider changes to dams in the Columbia River System; species, such as the wolverine, that have been newly listed or proposed for listing under the Endangered Species Act; and new reports, studies and information published since the original study was released in 2020. They also will consider anticipated changes to river flows related to the modernization of the Columbia River Treaty. Other studies that could be considered to revise the environmental impact statement include a 2022 federal report that said breaching Snake River dams was the only hope to recover Snake River salmon and steelhead to healthy, harvestable levels. The update also could include studies being done now as part of the Resilient Columbia Agreement to determine how to replace benefits that would be lost if the Eastern Washington Snake River dams are breached. The Federal Register notice says there is a need to evaluate the study’s selected alternative to leave the Snake River dams intact in light of “potentially substantial new circumstances and information.” The original study considered not only benefits and risks to juvenile and adult endangered and threatened fish by 14 federal dams in the Columbia River systems, but also the social and economic effects of changes to the system, including taking out the four lower Snake River dams. Impacts to flood risk management, water for irrigation, shipping of agriculture products and other goods, hydropower generation and recreation were weighed. After the original, 5,000-page study was released, the Biden administration signed a memorandum of understanding, now called the Resilient Columbia Agreement, hashed out behind closed doors with the states of Oregon and Washington and four Northwest tribes. It called for a temporary halt to a long-running lawsuit over the Columbia River hydrosystem, and particularly the lower Snake River dams, for up to a decade. The Biden administration pledged to spend $1 billion over the decade to restore native fish and their habitats and to conduct studies on how the services now provided by the dams could be replaced, including the barging of farm products and other goods, irrigation, recreation and electricity production. The 14 dams across the Columbia Basin provide some energy and transportation benefits, but come at enormous costs to salmon and steelhead populations, said the Columbia/Snake River Campaign, composed of environmental groups and others advocating for removal of the four dams from Ice Harbor near Pasco to Lower Granite near Lewiston, Idaho. “The time to act is now,” said Kayeloni Scott, executive director of the Columbia Snake River Campaign. “With this supplemental review process, the federal agencies are taking a much-needed step to analyze solutions that prioritize both salmon recovery and the livelihoods of farmers, rural communities and other stakeholders.” But the coalition opposed to breaching the Snake River dams say the supplemental review would be based on unfinished reviews and unscientific policy document. The 2020 study concluded that federal hydropower dams and locks are essential to maintaining affordable electric rates, reliable energy service to homes and businesses, and lower carbon emissions, the coalition said. “Hydropower is the largest source of affordable, renewable, dispatchable generation in the Pacific Northwest,” and demand for electricity is project to increase more than 30% in the Pacific Northwest over the next decade, it said. The coalition also cited a peer-reviewed study commissioned by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in 2021 that said survival of salmon in Columbia and Snake rivers was threatened not by the dams but by ocean conditions. Virtual public meetings on the scope of the update to the 2020 environmental impact statement will be held the week of Feb. 10, according to the notice.