According to a recent Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) study, Yolo County has an unauthorized immigrant population of 12,000 which represents roughly 6.2% of the population.Overall in Yolo ...

Some of my greatest memories from living in this area are probably the days of going to the Graduate in the early part of the decade when the Kings were going strong and feeling the energy of the pack ...

Earlier this week, we reported on the layoff of ten sheriff's deputies from Yolo County.  The question that emerged from that article was based on an earlier editorial by the Sacramento Bee.The Bee wr ...

In the end, Supervisor Matt Rexroad was the lone dissenting vote on a motion that would phase out the county's obligations to pay extra Judicial Benefits within two years. The board voted 4-1 to imple ...

The California Judges Association has entered a fray between some members of the County Board of Supervisors and Judge David Rosenberg regarding supplemental fees paid by the county to Yolo County Jud ...

This morning the Woodland Daily Democrat is reporting that Yolo County Judge David Rosenberg is disputing whether a letter from County Administrator Patrick Blacklock to William Vickrey that the count ...

This morning the Woodland Daily Democrat had to backtrack off reports that Judges' benefit would remain in place for another two years.  The  Democrat reported on Thursday that it is a done deal and t ...

Why is Yolo County Paying Judges 40K Per Year in Benefits? A controversy that has been brewing for some time between the County and Yolo County Judges may be exploding as a deadline approaches as to w ...

The County Board of Supervisors this week discussed a proposal that would ask Yolo County voters to approve a measure that would raise the sales tax by half a percent to generate somewhere between fiv ...

Yolo County is facing huge deficits this year again as it has to cut 21 million from its operating budget.  One of the problems that it faces is a huge amount of lands are preserved for agriculture.  ...

In the most recent round of budget reductions the Yolo County Health Department suffered significant losses of both personnel and programs.  Unfortunately those cuts and the cuts in other County depar ...

by Mary Zhu - Given the state budget crisis, the Board of Supervisors has difficult choices to make, one of which is whether to accept the draconian cuts proposed for the Yolo County Heath Department. ...

As we have reported more times than we bear, the county has around a 21 million dollar deficit that it will be cutting around March 25, 2010.  In order to get to that point, whole departments may be e ...

by Eric Alfaro - This week the Yolo Board of Supervisors gathered in a special strategic budget planning sessions to discuss inevitable cuts to the county budget while simultaneously strategizing ways ...

Streets and Roads Assessment Shows State and Local Transportation Systems at Great Risk - Much of the attention in the coming days will focus on the 20 million dollars in cuts to the Yolo County Gener ...

It all began on June 6, 2009, Davis Enterprise Columnist Bob Dunning pulled on a small item about a program in Yolo County that targets teen smoking.  His complaint was that the county was spending re ...

On Thursday it was announced that 93 county employees in Yolo accepted a so-called Golden Handshake or early retirement.  This included the number 2 person in the District Attorney's Office, Ann Hurd ...

Last week the County put off a decision on cutting off indigent health services to undocumented residents.  However, the county will have to act on it and it is likely given the fiscal conditions of t ...

On Tuesday, the Yolo County Board of Supervisors will discuss cutting an already-underfunded YCHIP program budget by 36 percent.  There is no doubt these are tough times for local government and of al ...

We have not covered this nearly enough, but Yolo County faces what is now a 24 million dollar budget deficit for next year.  How big is that number?  It represents over one third (36 percent to be pre ...