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Commentary: Why San Francisco May Not Be the Best Test Case for Progressivism

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 21, 2022
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Commentary: Why San Francisco May Not Be the Best Test Case for Progressivism

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Los Angeles, CA – There were a lot of bad media takes coming out o ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Los Angeles, CA – There were a lot of bad media takes coming out of the primary election two weeks ago—and a lot of them were due to a rush to judgment because t ...

June 21, 2022
| by David Greenwald

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Davis City Council To Consider 2022 Legislative Agenda – Including Infrastructure, Affordable Housing and Crisis Now Funding

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 19, 2022
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Davis City Council To Consider 2022 Legislative Agenda – Including Infrastructure, Affordable Housing and Crisis Now Funding

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – Back in 2019, the Davis City Council adopted its first ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – Back in 2019, the Davis City Council adopted its first legislative platform recognizing the need to more actively lobby the state legislature for fun ...

April 19, 2022
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Monday Morning Thoughts: The Fiscal Benefits of the Proposed DiSC Project

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 04, 2022
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Monday Morning Thoughts: The Fiscal Benefits of the Proposed DiSC Project

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – The city of Davis has long faced a revenue shortfall t ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – The city of Davis has long faced a revenue shortfall that has largely been placed off budget in the form of deferred maintenance and unmet needs. Ov ...

April 04, 2022
| by David Greenwald

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Davis City Council and Yolo County Partner in Climate Initiatives and Yolo Adult Day Health Center Expansion

Posted by Jordan
|Date: February 12, 2022
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Davis City Council and Yolo County Partner in Climate Initiatives and Yolo Adult Day Health Center Expansion

Photo by Ketut Subiyanto from Pexels By Melanie Johnson DAVIS, CA – On Wednesday, members of the Davis Ci ...

Photo by Ketut Subiyanto from Pexels By Melanie Johnson DAVIS, CA – On Wednesday, members of the Davis City Council met with representatives from the Yolo County Board of Supervisors to discuss their ...

February 12, 2022
| by Jordan

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Social Services Commission Asks Council to Help Pacifico, Supports Funding for Exercise Circuit and Senior Center Improvements

Posted by Jordan
|Date: January 26, 2022
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Social Services Commission Asks Council to Help Pacifico, Supports Funding for Exercise Circuit and Senior Center Improvements

By Melanie Johnson DAVIS, CA - On Monday night, the Davis Social Services Commission weighe ...

By Melanie Johnson DAVIS, CA - On Monday night, the Davis Social Services Commission weighed in on the reallocation of existing Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds, federal gr ...

January 26, 2022
| by Jordan

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Davis’ Water Fund Spends Less Than Expected, New Water Standards To Be Enacted

Posted by Jordan
|Date: January 22, 2022
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Davis’ Water Fund Spends Less Than Expected, New Water Standards To Be Enacted

By Aleeza Khan DAVIS, CA - The Davis Utilities Commission met on Wednesday Jan. 19 t ...

By Aleeza Khan DAVIS, CA - The Davis Utilities Commission met on Wednesday Jan. 19 to discuss updates on the city of Davis’ Water Utility Fund and Water Use Efficiency Legislation ...

January 22, 2022
| by Jordan

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My View: Appalling Decision by Council on Ladder Truck – Lack of Fiscal Restraint on a Nice-to-Have Expenditure

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 15, 2022
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My View: Appalling Decision by Council on Ladder Truck – Lack of Fiscal Restraint on a Nice-to-Have Expenditure

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – It has been more than a decade since we first laid out ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – It has been more than a decade since we first laid out the case that the city of Davis, mainly through their own policies, put the city at grave fisc ...

January 15, 2022
| by David Greenwald

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Council Goes with Option 3 on the Ladder Truck, but with Concerns

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 13, 2022
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Council Goes with Option 3 on the Ladder Truck, but with Concerns

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – The Davis City Council on Tuesday voted unanimously to ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – The Davis City Council on Tuesday voted unanimously to approve the purchase of the ladder truck and the staffing Option 3, but many council members d ...

January 13, 2022
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Davis Council Asked to Approve Purchase, Staffing for Ladder Truck

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 11, 2022
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Davis Council Asked to Approve Purchase, Staffing for Ladder Truck

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – The Davis City Council will be asked to approve the pu ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – The Davis City Council will be asked to approve the purchase of a fire department ladder truck and associated equipment for $2.15 million at tonight’ ...

January 11, 2022
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: Effects of Excessive Increases in City of Davis Employee Compensation from 2011 to 2020 on the City’s Ongoing Budget Crisis

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: January 09, 2022
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Guest Commentary: Effects of Excessive Increases in City of Davis Employee Compensation from 2011 to 2020 on the City’s Ongoing Budget Crisis

by Alan Pryor This author previously published an analysis of annual compensation and raises given to Cit ...

by Alan Pryor This author previously published an analysis of annual compensation and raises given to City of Davis employees from 2011-2018 and compared them to a government-calculated inflation rate ...

January 09, 2022
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Sunday Commentary: A Look Ahead to Some Burning Issues in Davis

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 02, 2022
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Sunday Commentary: A Look Ahead to Some Burning Issues in Davis

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – A I head into my 16th year of doing this, I have often ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – A I head into my 16th year of doing this, I have often believed that the new year doesn’t really start until we have our first big controversial loca ...

January 02, 2022
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: ‘But Davis Is a Great Place, I Don’t Want It to Change’

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 31, 2021
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Commentary: ‘But Davis Is a Great Place, I Don’t Want It to Change’

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – I hear it a lot, people love the Davis community as it ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – I hear it a lot, people love the Davis community as it is and do not want it to change. I get it, it’s still a relatively small community, it has ni ...

December 31, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Analysis: Leland Recommends Using the 75% Variable Cost Assumption for Development Impact Models

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 10, 2021
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Analysis: Leland Recommends Using the 75% Variable Cost Assumption for Development Impact Models

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – It is a highly contentious issue, however, when EPS (E ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – It is a highly contentious issue, however, when EPS (Economic & Planning Systems, Inc.) issued its projection that DiSC 2022 would generate just ...

December 10, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: The City Is Still in Fiscal Peril, but It Can Make Changes to Public Safety Fairly Easily

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 26, 2021
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Commentary: The City Is Still in Fiscal Peril, but It Can Make Changes to Public Safety Fairly Easily

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – As we have reported in the past, the city of Davis has ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – As we have reported in the past, the city of Davis has been running somewhere in the neighborhood of $8 to $10 million in the hole in terms of the di ...

October 26, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Council Faces Community Wrath on Policing, but Adopts Proposed Budget

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 23, 2021
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Council Faces Community Wrath on Policing, but Adopts Proposed Budget

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA - Despite an overwhelming number of citizens supporting changes to polici ...

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA - Despite an overwhelming number of citizens supporting changes to policing, the council largely passed the budget as proposed on Tuesday night, leaving some of the mor ...

June 23, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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City Leaders Propose Budget for The Next Two Fiscal Years

Posted by Linh Nguyen
|Date: June 01, 2021
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City Leaders Propose Budget for The Next Two Fiscal Years

By Flor Sanchez DAVIS-- During the City Council meeting on Monday, May 24, 2021, Finance Director Elena ...

By Flor Sanchez DAVIS-- During the City Council meeting on Monday, May 24, 2021, Finance Director Elena Adair and City Manager Mike Webb discussed the proposed budget for Fiscal Years 2021-2022 and 2 ...

June 01, 2021
| by Linh Nguyen

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Is the City Moving Fast Enough on Police Reform?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 27, 2021
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Is the City Moving Fast Enough on Police Reform?

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA - The city council on Tuesday heard the first presentation of the propose ...

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA - The city council on Tuesday heard the first presentation of the proposed budget. One of the big areas of concern was whether the city council was moving forward on e ...

May 27, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: Let’s Take Care of Davis – Please Vote Yes for the Stormwater Fee

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: May 23, 2021
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Guest Commentary: Let’s Take Care of Davis – Please Vote Yes for the Stormwater Fee

By Councilmember Dan Carson, Commissioner Elaine Roberts Musser, and Vice Mayor Lucas Frerichs We call up ...

By Councilmember Dan Carson, Commissioner Elaine Roberts Musser, and Vice Mayor Lucas Frerichs We call upon our community to defend Davis from a serious potential climate threat. We face the risk tha ...

May 23, 2021
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Day 5 of the Derek Chauvin Trial in Death of George Floyd Features Police Officers

Posted by Vanguard Court Watch Interns
|Date: April 03, 2021
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Day 5 of the Derek Chauvin Trial in Death of George Floyd Features Police Officers

By Lovepreet Dhinsa MINNEAPOLIS, MN – Day 5 on Friday of the trial of Derek Chauvin—the former cop accuse ...

By Lovepreet Dhinsa MINNEAPOLIS, MN – Day 5 on Friday of the trial of Derek Chauvin—the former cop accused of murdering George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for nearly 10 minutes—featured two witnesse ...

April 03, 2021
| by Vanguard Court Watch Interns

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My View: Council Approves Ladder Truck, but I’m Still Unclear on the Actual Need

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 20, 2021
| (14) Comments

My View: Council Approves Ladder Truck, but I’m Still Unclear on the Actual Need

By David M. Greenwald This week the city council approved the acquisition of the ladder truck—but I still ...

By David M. Greenwald This week the city council approved the acquisition of the ladder truck—but I still remain unclear as to why this was such a pressing need, given all of the needs that this commu ...

March 20, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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