Torin Dunnavant of Tree Davis, on Imagining Yolo Davis, Sept. 8, 2023

Fri, 09/08/2023 - 6:10pm | Pieter Pastoor

Torin Dunnavant, executive director of Tree Davis, shows us how to keep our towns really "cool." Tree Davis has more than 13,000 witnesses standing guard around Yolo County (that's how many trees they have planted to date). Listen in today on Imagining Yolo Davis as he discusses its many programs, such as tribute trees, memorial groves, education programs, and so much more.

As Tree Davis says on its website, its mission is "to improve the health and resilience of our communities by enhancing and expanding climate-ready trees and landscapes through direct action, community engagement, and advocacy."

Imagining Yolo Davis playlist for 09/08/2023

Jazz After Dark, Sept. 5, 2023

Tue, 09/05/2023 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

We have New Orleans jazz, bossa nova, and more tonight: Billie Holiday, Bunny Berigan (Danny Richards vocals), Georgie Auld & His Orchestra, New Orleans' Own The Dukes of Dixieland, Benny Carter, Louis Armstrong, The 6 & 7/8ths String Band, Percy Humphrey's Crescent City Joymakers, Sweet Emma & Her Dixieland Boys, Johnny Hodges, João Gilberto & Milton Banana, Luiz Bonfá, Carlos Lyra & Quarteto de Oscar Castro Neves, Nara Leão, Charlie Byrd And The Washington Guitar Quintet, and the Cannonball Adderley Quintet.

Davisville, Sept. 4, 2023: Investors buy land for a ‘dream city’ next door to Yolo County

Mon, 09/04/2023 - 5:30pm | Bill Buchanan

Fairfield Mayor Catherine Moy was among the first people a few years ago to draw attention to extensive and secretive land purchases in Solano County by Flannery Associates. Who the buyers are, and what they wanted, has now become much clearer thanks to reporting from The New York Times and other media — Flannery wants to build a green “dream city” from scratch on rural, arid land in southeastern Solano County, one of the least-populated parts of the greater Bay Area and Yolo County’s southwestern neighbor. The backers include some of the wealthiest people in America, with ties to Silicon Valley.

Today on Davisville, Moy criticizes the idea, says the opposition is large and growing, and chides the buyers for conceiving big plans involving Solano County while not engaging the people who live there. “I have literally had several hundred people [in Solano County] contact me,” she says, "and about 95, 96 percent want them to go away. For a number of reasons.”

After this interview was recorded, Flannery began saying more about its plans. This SFGATE article has details.

Anton Barbeau plus summer songs on the latest Electric Compost Heap

Mon, 08/28/2023 - 8:04am | kdrtradio

Electric Compost Heap airs live on Fridays, but thanks to the KDRT archives you can listen to the Aug. 25 program anytime for the next couple of weeks. This time out, DJ Dug Deep spins plenty of summer tunes -- fall isn't here yet, y' know -- plus a couple of tracks by Anton Barbeau, who just happened to be playing in Davis last Friday night at Delta of Venus. Dug also wants you to know that the official color of this week's program is magenta!

Kate Laddish explains In Home Supportive Services and Democracy Winters

Fri, 08/25/2023 - 6:10pm | Pieter Pastoor

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Kate Laddish has many interests and passions, and today she talks with us about two: Yolo County In Home Supportive Services, better known as IHSS, and Democracy Winters, a nonpartisan organization dedicated to preserving democracy.

Both organizations deserve a second look, and here is an opportunity as Kate shares her insights into both.

Imagining Yolo Davis playlist for 08/25/2023

On this week’s Heart to Heart, Dr. G remembers the influential ‘Dr. Love’

Thu, 08/24/2023 - 11:14am | kdrtradio

“Today I’d like to talk with you about someone who has been called the granddaddy of motivational speakers on television,” says Heart to Heart host Dr. Gitane. “At one time he had five of his books on the New York Times bestsellers list.”

On her program for this week, Dr. G invites listeners to learn more about “this fine person, who I had the pleasure of meeting, by the way, umpteen years ago” — Felice Leonardo Buscaglia, more commonly known as Leo Buscaglia, and also as “Dr. Love.”

Penguin Random House says his first book, Love (pictured), was a continual bestseller for more than 20 years.

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