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My View: Audit Report Reveals Problems with Davis Policing

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 07, 2019
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My View: Audit Report Reveals Problems with Davis Policing

The city of Davis efforts at police oversight really began in 2005 and 2006, resulting in the creation of ...

The city of Davis efforts at police oversight really began in 2005 and 2006, resulting in the creation of the Police Ombudsman. This occurred nearly a full decade before a national debate on policing ...

December 07, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Auditor’s Report: A Bad Raid in Davis

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 06, 2019
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Auditor’s Report: A Bad Raid in Davis

Last night at the Davis Police Accountability Commission (DPAC) meeting, Michael Gennaco briefly summariz ...

Last night at the Davis Police Accountability Commission (DPAC) meeting, Michael Gennaco briefly summarized and discussed his first semi-annual report. One of the cases that he summarized came to the ...

December 06, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Police Chief Reports Crime Steady with Some Concerns; Council Supportive of Adding Cameras

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 04, 2019
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Police Chief Reports Crime Steady with Some Concerns; Council Supportive of Adding Cameras

While a rash of robberies, two carjackings and a ring of catalytic converter thefts make for concerning h ...

While a rash of robberies, two carjackings and a ring of catalytic converter thefts make for concerning headlines, the report delivered by Police Chief Darren Pytel on Tuesday was that crime was large ...

December 04, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: Rothstein, the Housing Issue, and Discrimination in Davis

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 24, 2019
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Sunday Commentary: Rothstein, the Housing Issue, and Discrimination in Davis

We have seen a lot of side issues in Davis this year – from traffic congestion created on Mace to the iss ...

We have seen a lot of side issues in Davis this year – from traffic congestion created on Mace to the issue of the homeless respite center and more. But this week was a reminder that, at the core, the ...

November 24, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Council Designates November as Native American Heritage Month

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 23, 2019
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Council Designates November as Native American Heritage Month

The Davis City Council recognized the month of November as Native American Heritage Month. As the procla ...

The Davis City Council recognized the month of November as Native American Heritage Month. As the proclamation noted, the city of Davis was established in 1868, and was “within an area of California ...

November 23, 2019
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Packed House Hears LWV Forum on Housing Discrimination, Community Housing Needs

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 19, 2019
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Packed House Hears LWV Forum on Housing Discrimination, Community Housing Needs

It was nearing the end of the night and the packed house at Davis Community Church of more than 200 peopl ...

It was nearing the end of the night and the packed house at Davis Community Church of more than 200 people remained for the most part, as Richard Rothstein, author of The Color of Law – a book on the ...

November 19, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: Freedom of Dissent, Muhammed Ali and Gloria Partida

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 17, 2019
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Sunday Commentary: Freedom of Dissent, Muhammed Ali and Gloria Partida

The First Amendment to the US Constitution provides for the freedom of speech… “congress shall make no la ...

The First Amendment to the US Constitution provides for the freedom of speech… “congress shall make no law… abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to as ...

November 17, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: First Goal of District Elections – Don’t Undermine the System Before It Gets Implemented

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 03, 2019
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Commentary: First Goal of District Elections – Don’t Undermine the System Before It Gets Implemented

I have stated a number of times already that I would like to see three specific things come out of the di ...

I have stated a number of times already that I would like to see three specific things come out of the district election process. First, I would like to see at least one district that is likely to be ...

October 03, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: The Story of District Elections Is Demographic Shift in Davis

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 15, 2019
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Sunday Commentary: The Story of District Elections Is Demographic Shift in Davis

In January 1996, a governance committee appointed by the city council recommended, by a 14-5 vote, that t ...

In January 1996, a governance committee appointed by the city council recommended, by a 14-5 vote, that the city go to district elections. Some interesting people served on that committee, including ...

September 15, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: White Fragility Underlies the Debate over District Elections

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 08, 2019
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Sunday Commentary: White Fragility Underlies the Debate over District Elections

For years, I heard complaints from people of color, both seeing it on surveys and hearing it anecdotally ...

For years, I heard complaints from people of color, both seeing it on surveys and hearing it anecdotally – an African American football player who interned for the Vanguard several years ago once told ...

September 08, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: What Will Be the Impact of District Elections?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 03, 2019
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Commentary: What Will Be the Impact of District Elections?

I think it is a reasonable question – to ask why the College Republicans have pushed for district electio ...

I think it is a reasonable question – to ask why the College Republicans have pushed for district elections. Given that they have not come forward to explain their thinking, we can only speculate. At ...

September 03, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Analysis of District Elections Misses the Motivation of the College Republicans

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 26, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Analysis of District Elections Misses the Motivation of the College Republicans

Bob Dunning’s column this weekend lights into Matt Rexroad. It’s not that we necessarily blame him for t ...

Bob Dunning’s column this weekend lights into Matt Rexroad. It’s not that we necessarily blame him for this, but the problem is his analysis is incomplete and seems to assume this is about a paycheck ...

August 26, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: ‘The Other Davis’

Posted by Matt Williams
|Date: August 22, 2019
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Guest Commentary: ‘The Other Davis’

By Matt Williams For reasons that are wholly unrelated to what I found, I was looking through past Word d ...

By Matt Williams For reasons that are wholly unrelated to what I found, I was looking through past Word documents I had written. In the process I ran into my answer to the Vanguard's seventh weekly q ...

August 22, 2019
| by Matt Williams

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My View: Race Really Is the Driving Force in Politics

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 17, 2019
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My View: Race Really Is the Driving Force in Politics

A number of commenters and even political leaders have attempted to downplay the issue of race in Davis. ...

A number of commenters and even political leaders have attempted to downplay the issue of race in Davis. A lot of people are more comfortable shifting the issue from one of race to socio-economic sta ...

August 17, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Council Expresses Frustration, but Does the Right Thing on District Elections

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 15, 2019
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Commentary: Council Expresses Frustration, but Does the Right Thing on District Elections

There are a lot of reasonable questions that the community can ask at this point – one of the biggest per ...

There are a lot of reasonable questions that the community can ask at this point – one of the biggest perhaps is why the city didn't anticipate the challenge of converting to district elections before ...

August 15, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Letter: Rexroad Insists on November 2020 for Elections

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: August 14, 2019
| (1) Comment

Letter: Rexroad Insists on November 2020 for Elections

By Matt Rexroad (Editor's Note: The following is the letter sent on July 25 by Matt Rexroad to the City i ...

By Matt Rexroad (Editor's Note: The following is the letter sent on July 25 by Matt Rexroad to the City in response to the city’s initial reaction). I write in response to your email to my co-counsel ...

August 14, 2019
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Commentary: Council Has a Lot of Decisions to Make Tonight

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 13, 2019
| (26) Comments

Commentary: Council Has a Lot of Decisions to Make Tonight

The potential change to district elections has probably caught a lot of people in this community off guar ...

The potential change to district elections has probably caught a lot of people in this community off guard. I had always opposed district elections, believing that they weren’t needed and that this c ...

August 13, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Letter: Take Action Locally on Gun Violence

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: August 11, 2019
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Letter: Take Action Locally on Gun Violence

By the Davis Phoenix Coalition After yet another deadly week of gun violence, other nations are warning t ...

By the Davis Phoenix Coalition After yet another deadly week of gun violence, other nations are warning their citizens of the danger of traveling to the United States. Ironically, we are now the real ...

August 11, 2019
| by Vanguard Administrator

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City Changes Course on Demographer Following Report

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 10, 2019
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City Changes Course on Demographer Following Report

Following the Vanguard’s report on Friday highlighting very recent problems with the company National Dem ...

Following the Vanguard’s report on Friday highlighting very recent problems with the company National Demographics Corporation (NDC) in North Carolina, the city has quickly changed course. The city l ...

August 10, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Proposed Demographer Firm Found to Have Fabricated Data in North Carolina Two Weeks Ago

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 09, 2019
| (21) Comments

Proposed Demographer Firm Found to Have Fabricated Data in North Carolina Two Weeks Ago

Meeting Set For Tuesday on Transitioning to District Elections After weeks of speculation following the r ...

Meeting Set For Tuesday on Transitioning to District Elections After weeks of speculation following the release of a letter from Matt Rexroad on behalf of at least two clients, the city council will f ...

August 09, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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