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Rexroad Demands Davis Shift to District Elections for Council Races

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 23, 2019
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Rexroad Demands Davis Shift to District Elections for Council Races

It looks like by 2022 both the school district and city will have gone to district elections. While Matt ...

It looks like by 2022 both the school district and city will have gone to district elections. While Matt Rexroad told the Vanguard that the city should change in time for March 2020, the city respond ...

July 23, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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My View: Addressing Housing, Jobs and Traffic is the Next Challenge For the City

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 20, 2019
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My View: Addressing Housing, Jobs and Traffic is the Next Challenge For the City

One of the big questions is going to be for the next election cycle – just how big a driver is traffic co ...

One of the big questions is going to be for the next election cycle – just how big a driver is traffic concerns. If we look at the survey results, the percentage of those polled who saw traffic as th ...

July 20, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Do We Need an Additional Traffic Study on Mace?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 19, 2019
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Commentary: Do We Need an Additional Traffic Study on Mace?

Most of Alan Pryor’s guest commentary deals with the current conditions on Mace and the need to study tra ...

Most of Alan Pryor’s guest commentary deals with the current conditions on Mace and the need to study traffic prior to making changes on Mace – but he also points to the 800-pound gorilla as being the ...

July 19, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: We Need Economic Development While Addressing Income Inequality Regionally

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 18, 2019
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Commentary: We Need Economic Development While Addressing Income Inequality Regionally

When I first started looking into the prospects for economic development, there were several key factors ...

When I first started looking into the prospects for economic development, there were several key factors that attracted me to it as a way to address the city’s revenue generation problems. As a unive ...

July 18, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: New Mace Blvd Traffic Study Needed Before Making any More Changes

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: July 18, 2019
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Guest Commentary: New Mace Blvd Traffic Study Needed Before Making any More Changes

by Alan Pryor The City is in the midst of trying to formulate a plan to alleviate traffic congestion alon ...

by Alan Pryor The City is in the midst of trying to formulate a plan to alleviate traffic congestion along the Mace Blvd. corridor. Following are excerpts from the Staff Report presented to the Bicycl ...

July 18, 2019
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Commentary: New Housing Project Is Unlikely to Be a Major Impact on Mace

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 17, 2019
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Commentary: New Housing Project Is Unlikely to Be a Major Impact on Mace

There was a letter in the local paper worried about the impact of the new Chiles Road Apartments project ...

There was a letter in the local paper worried about the impact of the new Chiles Road Apartments project on the Mace Boulevard congestion. The writer notes: “So the city recently heard from 150 folks ...

July 17, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: Moving Forward on the Rental Resources Ordinance

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: July 16, 2019
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Guest Commentary: Moving Forward on the Rental Resources Ordinance

By Dillan Horton In early June, as the city was finalizing its annual budget I asked the current city cou ...

By Dillan Horton In early June, as the city was finalizing its annual budget I asked the current city council to consider allocating more resources for the Rental Resources Ordinance. I’ve heard so ma ...

July 16, 2019
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Vanguard Co-Hosts: Checking Privilege – Yolo County Gets a Tim Wise Visit

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: July 16, 2019
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Vanguard Co-Hosts: Checking Privilege – Yolo County Gets a Tim Wise Visit

Will The Justice System Ever Change? (From Press Release) - Yolo county residents can spend a Friday even ...

Will The Justice System Ever Change? (From Press Release) - Yolo county residents can spend a Friday evening with Tim Wise on July 26. This livestream presentation is part of an effort to improve Yolo ...

July 16, 2019
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Housing Pressure on Davis About to Ramp Up

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 15, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Housing Pressure on Davis About to Ramp Up

Consider this a trigger warning – if you don’t like speculation, you probably won’t like this column. Th ...

Consider this a trigger warning – if you don’t like speculation, you probably won’t like this column. The state as we know is feeling the pressure of housing shortages. A reader on Sunday noted that ...

July 15, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: Progressive Boomers Blocking Housing Fixes – Part of a New Generational Struggle

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 14, 2019
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Sunday Commentary: Progressive Boomers Blocking Housing Fixes – Part of a New Generational Struggle

A few days ago, the Huffington Post ran a lengthy article that found, “Progressive Boomers Are Making It ...

A few days ago, the Huffington Post ran a lengthy article that found, “Progressive Boomers Are Making It Impossible For Cities To Fix The Housing Crisis,” and “Residents of wealthy neighborhoods are t ...

July 14, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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As Homeless Problem Increases in Davis, DOVe and the Council Partner On Solutions

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 14, 2019
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As Homeless Problem Increases in Davis, DOVe and the Council Partner On Solutions

On the city survey, homelessness which had not been on the public’s radar came in at the third highest co ...

On the city survey, homelessness which had not been on the public’s radar came in at the third highest concern among the public – a distant third – at seven percent. On Tuesday during the council mee ...

July 14, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Lights for Liberty Draws 250 People to Central Park Protesting Concentration Camps

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 13, 2019
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Lights for Liberty Draws 250 People to Central Park Protesting Concentration Camps

Across the nation, people of all faiths, races and ethnicities came out in protest to the inhumane condit ...

Across the nation, people of all faiths, races and ethnicities came out in protest to the inhumane conditions faced by refugees at detention camps across the nation. Two hundred fifty people came out ...

July 13, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Proclamation for the Davis City Council to Support the Rights of Immigrant Detainees

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 13, 2019
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Proclamation for the Davis City Council to Support the Rights of Immigrant Detainees

Dr. Tia Will read this proclamation on Friday, which she intends to submit to the city council: Whereas t ...

Dr. Tia Will read this proclamation on Friday, which she intends to submit to the city council: Whereas the United States of America has been built in large part by generations of immigrants; Whereas ...

July 13, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: A Public Widely Uninformed on City Fiscal Issues – Part Two

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 12, 2019
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Commentary: A Public Widely Uninformed on City Fiscal Issues – Part Two

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July 12, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: A Look at the City Survey – Part One, Housing

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 11, 2019
| (42) Comments

Commentary: A Look at the City Survey – Part One, Housing

The city conducted a survey recently through EMC Research with the broader subject being satisfaction. F ...

The city conducted a survey recently through EMC Research with the broader subject being satisfaction. For the most part the city council should be pleased with the survey results – especially lookin ...

July 11, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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City Provides Updates to Plans at Mace

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 11, 2019
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City Provides Updates to Plans at Mace

After receiving complaints about changes to the Mace Boulevard roadway, the city has gone back to the dra ...

After receiving complaints about changes to the Mace Boulevard roadway, the city has gone back to the drawing board and is laying out plans to fix some of the worst concerns including the congestion a ...

July 11, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Community Survey Shows Overwhelming Need for Affordable Housing, Overall Satisfaction with City

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 10, 2019
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Community Survey Shows Overwhelming Need for Affordable Housing, Overall Satisfaction with City

The city kept the survey hidden from the public until it was presented on Tuesday night. Once unveiled, ...

The city kept the survey hidden from the public until it was presented on Tuesday night. Once unveiled, the results were stark and somewhat overwhelming. There were three key trends, in addition to o ...

July 10, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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City Well Positioned for Sales Tax Renewal

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 10, 2019
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City Well Positioned for Sales Tax Renewal

When the city released their survey results, it showed a number of interesting findings, but the one that ...

When the city released their survey results, it showed a number of interesting findings, but the one that is unequivocal is that the city is well positioned to get an affirmative vote on renewal of th ...

July 10, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Davis Names Joe Tenney New Fire Chief

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 09, 2019
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Davis Names Joe Tenney New Fire Chief

It was only seven months ago that Daryl Arbuthnott, fire chief for just 17 months, stunned the city of Da ...

It was only seven months ago that Daryl Arbuthnott, fire chief for just 17 months, stunned the city of Davis by announcing a move to Vallejo. That created the need for a new fire chief for a departme ...

July 09, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Wait A Second, Didn’t I Just Read That?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 08, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Wait A Second, Didn’t I Just Read That?

I saw a few comments this week that caught my attention. They give me a chance to catch my breath a bit ...

I saw a few comments this week that caught my attention. They give me a chance to catch my breath a bit and respond here. One wrote: “Instead of these repetitive articles which ultimately don’t accom ...

July 08, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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