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Vanguard Commentary: City to Bow to Pressure, Pull Back on POU

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 26, 2014
| (72) Comments

Vanguard Commentary: City to Bow to Pressure, Pull Back on POU

Botched Roll-Out in Part to Blame for Second Failure on Public Power – If the reports are true, tonight a ...

Botched Roll-Out in Part to Blame for Second Failure on Public Power – If the reports are true, tonight at a special Wednesday evening city council meeting, the council will pull the plug on the energ ...

February 26, 2014
| by David Greenwald

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Council to Consider POU Options and Implementation

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 22, 2014
| (15) Comments

Council to Consider POU Options and Implementation

In December of 2013, the Davis City Council authorized the city manager and the city attorney “to initiat ...

In December of 2013, the Davis City Council authorized the city manager and the city attorney “to initiate actions necessary to provide municipal electrical utility service to Davis residents.” At the ...

February 22, 2014
| by David Greenwald

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Study Shows Benefits of Plastic Bag Bans As Davis’ Ban is Set to Start July 1

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 21, 2014
| (34) Comments

Study Shows Benefits of Plastic Bag Bans As Davis’ Ban is Set to Start July 1

The city of Davis has put out a single-use carryout bag ordinance page in advance of the ordinance that w ...

The city of Davis has put out a single-use carryout bag ordinance page in advance of the ordinance that was passed on November 12, 2013, and which will go into effect July 1, 2014. As the city explain ...

February 21, 2014
| by David Greenwald

| (34) Comments

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Making Recycling Easier

Posted by Michelle Millet
|Date: February 21, 2014
| (37) Comments

Making Recycling Easier

by Michelle Millet Knowing that my family is attempting to reduce the amount of waste we generate, especi ...

by Michelle Millet Knowing that my family is attempting to reduce the amount of waste we generate, especially the type that ends up in the landfill, a friend who has a similar goal made the following ...

February 21, 2014
| by Michelle Millet

| (37) Comments

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Analysis: Editorial Suggests Wrong Time to Consider POU

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 11, 2014
| (52) Comments

Analysis: Editorial Suggests Wrong Time to Consider POU

At the last council meeting, the Davis City Council approved a consent item that would finance an additio ...

At the last council meeting, the Davis City Council approved a consent item that would finance an additional $600,000 to study the feasibility of the city moving away from PG&E and towards a Publi ...

February 11, 2014
| by David Greenwald

| (52) Comments

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Who is Being Targeted in Anti-Scavenging Law?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 07, 2014
| (34) Comments

Who is Being Targeted in Anti-Scavenging Law?

While the city expressed concern about organized groups that come from out of town, using trucks and crew ...

While the city expressed concern about organized groups that come from out of town, using trucks and crews of people to create their own illegal business with the revenue from scavenged property, the ...

February 07, 2014
| by David Greenwald

| (34) Comments

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Costs and Benefits of POU’s

Posted by Michelle Millet
|Date: February 03, 2014
| (81) Comments

Costs and Benefits of POU’s

by Michelle Millet At last Tuesday’s council meeting members unanimously voted on a resolution approving ...

by Michelle Millet At last Tuesday’s council meeting members unanimously voted on a resolution approving a loan not to exceed $600,000 from the Wastewater Capital Replacement Fund to the General Fund ...

February 03, 2014
| by Michelle Millet

| (81) Comments

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Transport of Crude-by-Rail Puts Davis at Risk

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 03, 2014
| (30) Comments

Transport of Crude-by-Rail Puts Davis at Risk

By Lynne Nittler, Milton Kalish, and Matt Biers-Ariel Background: North Dakota Bakken crude oil producti ...

By Lynne Nittler, Milton Kalish, and Matt Biers-Ariel Background: North Dakota Bakken crude oil production is booming, and oil companies are looking for a fast, convenient way to transport their swee ...

February 03, 2014
| by David Greenwald

| (30) Comments

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City Gets Push Back from PG&E, Chamber on POU

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 30, 2014
| (81) Comments

City Gets Push Back from PG&E, Chamber on POU

In December of 2013, the Davis City Council authorized the city manager and the city attorney to initiate ...

In December of 2013, the Davis City Council authorized the city manager and the city attorney to initiate actions necessary to provide municipal electrical utility service to Davis residents. Two wee ...

January 30, 2014
| by David Greenwald

| (81) Comments

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Trash Entitlement

Posted by Michelle Millet
|Date: January 20, 2014
| (48) Comments

Trash Entitlement

by Michelle Millet The city’s decision to move from the current loose-in-the-street collection method to ...

by Michelle Millet The city’s decision to move from the current loose-in-the-street collection method to a containerized collection method has resulted in, as one councilmember put it, “his email box ...

January 20, 2014
| by Michelle Millet

| (48) Comments

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Sunday Commentary: Davis Remains Behind the Times on Green Waste

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 19, 2014
| (104) Comments

Sunday Commentary: Davis Remains Behind the Times on Green Waste

Every time my parents come up to visit the grandchildren, they are constantly baffled by the resistance t ...

Every time my parents come up to visit the grandchildren, they are constantly baffled by the resistance that Davis has had to green waste containerization – that the public is content to dump waste in ...

January 19, 2014
| by David Greenwald

| (104) Comments

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My View: Public Participation, the Homeless and DWR’s Profits

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 18, 2014
| (16) Comments

My View: Public Participation, the Homeless and DWR’s Profits

I was dismayed on Tuesday to watch the unfolding of the discussion on scavenging. It was a brilliant pre ...

I was dismayed on Tuesday to watch the unfolding of the discussion on scavenging. It was a brilliant presentation by Dianna Jensen – it was just, in my view, the wrong presentation and the wrong disc ...

January 18, 2014
| by David Greenwald

| (16) Comments

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Council Delays Action on Green Waste Containerization

Posted by Michelle Millet
|Date: January 16, 2014
| (51) Comments

Council Delays Action on Green Waste Containerization

by Michelle Millet Unless something radically changes it appears the City of Davis will move forward with ...

by Michelle Millet Unless something radically changes it appears the City of Davis will move forward with its plan to move from a loose-in-the street yard waste collection program to an organic contai ...

January 16, 2014
| by Michelle Millet

| (51) Comments

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Commentary: Did Council Hit the Mark on Scavenging?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 15, 2014
| (83) Comments

Commentary: Did Council Hit the Mark on Scavenging?

It was a great staff report last night by City Staffer Dianna Jensen on the issue of scavenging. She bri ...

It was a great staff report last night by City Staffer Dianna Jensen on the issue of scavenging. She brilliantly laid out the increasing concerns about organized scavenging operations brought about b ...

January 15, 2014
| by David Greenwald

| (83) Comments

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Community Events: MLK Day; Solar Gardens

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 15, 2014
| 0 comments

Community Events: MLK Day; Solar Gardens

Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration on January 20th to Feature Dana Vickers Shelley from the Southe ...

Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration on January 20th to Feature Dana Vickers Shelley from the Southern Poverty Law Center The 20th annual Davis Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Celebration will take ...

January 15, 2014
| by David Greenwald

| 0 comments

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Food Scrap Collection Follow Up

Posted by Michelle Millet
|Date: January 12, 2014
| (76) Comments

Food Scrap Collection Follow Up

by Michelle Millet After reading many of the comments that were posted on my recent article Green Waste C ...

by Michelle Millet After reading many of the comments that were posted on my recent article Green Waste Containerization: Food Scrape Collection I realized that I could have done a better job framing ...

January 12, 2014
| by Michelle Millet

| (76) Comments

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Biking and Walking to School in Davis

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 11, 2014
| (88) Comments

Biking and Walking to School in Davis

by Robb Davis Adults who grew up in Davis will often harken back to their experience as students noting t ...

by Robb Davis Adults who grew up in Davis will often harken back to their experience as students noting that “everyone” biked or walked to school in the past. Most cannot recall when the trend to dri ...

January 11, 2014
| by David Greenwald

| (88) Comments

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Green Waste Containerization Benefit: Food Scrap Collection

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 10, 2014
| (124) Comments

Green Waste Containerization Benefit: Food Scrap Collection

by Michelle Millet According to the long range calendar, this Tuesday the Davis City Council was set to d ...

by Michelle Millet According to the long range calendar, this Tuesday the Davis City Council was set to discuss the potential implementation of a containerized green waste collection program. The 2013 ...

January 10, 2014
| by David Greenwald

| (124) Comments

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Should Davis Pursue Its Own Publicly Owned Utility?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 09, 2014
| (63) Comments

Should Davis Pursue Its Own Publicly Owned Utility?

On Tuesday, at his State of the City Speech, Mayor Joe Krovoza announced that the city is very seriously ...

On Tuesday, at his State of the City Speech, Mayor Joe Krovoza announced that the city is very seriously looking at creating a "POU – Publicly Owned Utility – we received our second big report on that ...

January 09, 2014
| by David Greenwald

| (63) Comments

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Striving For Zero Waste: One Davis Family’s Resolution

Posted by Michelle Millet
|Date: January 07, 2014
| (17) Comments

Striving For Zero Waste: One Davis Family’s Resolution

By Michelle Millet I can’t remember the first time I heard about the concept of zero waste, but I remembe ...

By Michelle Millet I can’t remember the first time I heard about the concept of zero waste, but I remember being intrigued by the idea. A little Internet research on the topic led me to an article in ...

January 07, 2014
| by Michelle Millet

| (17) Comments

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