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Monday Morning Thoughts: Despite Heated Rhetoric, There Might Not Be Much to the Campaign Finance Allegations

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 25, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Despite Heated Rhetoric, There Might Not Be Much to the Campaign Finance Allegations

As I wrote up the article on the city council’s public announcement of closed section actions of referrin ...

As I wrote up the article on the city council’s public announcement of closed section actions of referring complaints to the DA and the Fair Political Practices Commission, I took a look at the letter ...

February 25, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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City Forwards No on L Complaint to DA and FPPC

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 24, 2019
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City Forwards No on L Complaint to DA and FPPC

City Has Now Forwarded Complaints on Both Sides On Tuesday, the council held a closed session meeting to ...

City Has Now Forwarded Complaints on Both Sides On Tuesday, the council held a closed session meeting to discuss complaints, this time by the No on Measure L side, that the developers for WDAAC (West ...

February 24, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: Laundered Campaign Contributions Appear to Have Been Made to the Yes on Measure L Campaign

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: February 15, 2019
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Guest Commentary: Laundered Campaign Contributions Appear to Have Been Made to the Yes on Measure L Campaign

by Alan Pryor In previous articles pertaining to the financial disclosures of the Yes on Measure L/West D ...

by Alan Pryor In previous articles pertaining to the financial disclosures of the Yes on Measure L/West Davis Active Adult Community campaign on the November 2018 ballot in Davis, I provided evidence ...

February 15, 2019
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Guest Commentary: Yes on Measure L Campaign Violates FPPC Disclosure Laws

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: February 14, 2019
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Guest Commentary: Yes on Measure L Campaign Violates FPPC Disclosure Laws

Campaign Failed to Report Davis Vanguard Ad Expenditures and Provided Inadequate Disclosure of other “Non ...

Campaign Failed to Report Davis Vanguard Ad Expenditures and Provided Inadequate Disclosure of other “Non-Monetary” Contributions and Expenditures By Alan Pryor In an article I authored and published ...

February 14, 2019
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Guest Commentary: Yes on Measure L Campaign has “Unclean Hands” when Alleging Improper Financial Disclosures by No on Measure L

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: February 12, 2019
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Guest Commentary: Yes on Measure L Campaign has “Unclean Hands” when Alleging Improper Financial Disclosures by No on Measure L

by Alan Pryor The “unclean hands” legal doctrine is where one party in a legal dispute argues the other p ...

by Alan Pryor The “unclean hands” legal doctrine is where one party in a legal dispute argues the other party is not entitled to obtain an equitable remedy because the other party is acting unethicall ...

February 12, 2019
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Analysis: No Major Changes as the Election Results Are Finalized

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 02, 2018
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Analysis: No Major Changes as the Election Results Are Finalized

On Friday, 24 days after the election was held, the county finally wrapped up their count in all of the l ...

On Friday, 24 days after the election was held, the county finally wrapped up their count in all of the local contests. None of them were particularly close and so, as expected, the results really di ...

December 02, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: The Question Now Is Whether Measure R Works

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 08, 2018
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Commentary: The Question Now Is Whether Measure R Works

Now that 2018’s political season is over, we can step back and start evaluating things. When we began th ...

Now that 2018’s political season is over, we can step back and start evaluating things. When we began the year, we knew there were likely to be two Measure R campaigns and we knew that, prior to this ...

November 08, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Analysis: There Was Something Different about the Measure L Campaign

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 08, 2018
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Analysis: There Was Something Different about the Measure L Campaign

While some have made a big deal out of the $155 thousand spent by the Measure L campaign, and the campaig ...

While some have made a big deal out of the $155 thousand spent by the Measure L campaign, and the campaign certainly enjoyed a sizable monetary advantage, there is really nothing that different about ...

November 08, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Analysis: Why WDAAC Was Able to Win and Win Overwhelmingly

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 07, 2018
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Analysis: Why WDAAC Was Able to Win and Win Overwhelmingly

A year ago, the question on everyone’s mind was whether any Measure R project could pass a vote – ever. ...

A year ago, the question on everyone’s mind was whether any Measure R project could pass a vote – ever. That answer has been resoundingly answered this year as first Nishi and now WDAAC now only pass ...

November 07, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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WDAAC Cruises to an Easy Approval (Updated)

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 07, 2018
| (27) Comments

WDAAC Cruises to an Easy Approval (Updated)

For the second straight time, the voters of Davis, who rejected the first three Measure J/ R projects, ha ...

For the second straight time, the voters of Davis, who rejected the first three Measure J/ R projects, have approved a project via a Measure R vote. For the second straight time, the vote wasn’t part ...

November 07, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: What Are Davis Residents Saying Against Measure L?

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: November 06, 2018
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Guest Commentary: What Are Davis Residents Saying Against Measure L?

by Rik Keller The Yes on Measure L/West Davis Active Adult Community (WDAAC) campaign has been saying tha ...

by Rik Keller The Yes on Measure L/West Davis Active Adult Community (WDAAC) campaign has been saying that opponents of the project are "against seniors" and has been making unsubstantiated claims tha ...

November 06, 2018
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Sunday Commentary: Some Interesting Bedfellows Supporting Measure L

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 04, 2018
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Sunday Commentary: Some Interesting Bedfellows Supporting Measure L

Is This More Evidence That WDAAC Will Pass? We'll See Yesterday’s analysis of the race showed the lack o ...

Is This More Evidence That WDAAC Will Pass? We'll See Yesterday’s analysis of the race showed the lack of public opposition to the project outside of a small pocket of people. Today, I will focus le ...

November 04, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: What Yes Does

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: November 04, 2018
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Guest Commentary: What Yes Does

by David Thompson With your YES vote for Measure L, these low income seniors will get to stay and live in ...

by David Thompson With your YES vote for Measure L, these low income seniors will get to stay and live in Davis. Otherwise, there are few places for them to go. Davis Low Income Seniors are People by ...

November 04, 2018
| by Vanguard Administrator

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My View: If I’m Wrong, I’m Going to Be Really Wrong on WDAAC

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 03, 2018
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My View: If I’m Wrong, I’m Going to Be Really Wrong on WDAAC

Right before the June election, the campaign folks for Nishi started to get nervous – really nervous. Th ...

Right before the June election, the campaign folks for Nishi started to get nervous – really nervous. The students weren’t coming out to vote early. As a big part of their strategy, student voters w ...

November 03, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: WDAAC Is the Right Project at the Right Location, at the Right Time

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: November 03, 2018
| (5) Comments

Guest Commentary: WDAAC Is the Right Project at the Right Location, at the Right Time

by Mary Jo Bryan Measure L is coming before the voters this November. A YES on Measure L will result in ...

by Mary Jo Bryan Measure L is coming before the voters this November. A YES on Measure L will result in the construction of greatly needed senior housing, including smaller, single-story homes and 15 ...

November 03, 2018
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Analysis: Further Diving into the Affordable Housing Portion of WDAAC

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 02, 2018
| (29) Comments

Analysis: Further Diving into the Affordable Housing Portion of WDAAC

Earlier this week, the Vanguard questioned the conclusions of the opposition to Measure L that the WDAAC ...

Earlier this week, the Vanguard questioned the conclusions of the opposition to Measure L that the WDAAC was in violation of the city’s Affordable Housing Ordinance. The key claim by Alan Pryor was as ...

November 02, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Letter: Measure L Discriminates against Blacks and Latinos

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: November 02, 2018
| (19) Comments

Letter: Measure L Discriminates against Blacks and Latinos

The Fair Housing Problem With Measure L by Molly Current Project Sentinel is a full-service non-profit Fa ...

The Fair Housing Problem With Measure L by Molly Current Project Sentinel is a full-service non-profit Fair Housing agency serving the Bay Area and portions of Central California, including all of Sac ...

November 02, 2018
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Letter: Why We Need Measure L

Posted by Dan Carson
|Date: November 01, 2018
| (32) Comments

Letter: Why We Need Measure L

by Councilmember Dan Carson The data is startling: Between 2000 and 2010, the U.S. census shows, the num ...

by Councilmember Dan Carson The data is startling: Between 2000 and 2010, the U.S. census shows, the number of elderly households in Davis increased by almost 53%, compared to a 3.6% increase in the ...

November 01, 2018
| by Dan Carson

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Analysis: No on Measure L Gets the Affordable Requirements Wrong

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 31, 2018
| (21) Comments

Analysis: No on Measure L Gets the Affordable Requirements Wrong

The No on Measure L crowd has repeatedly claimed that West Davis Active Adult Community's Affordable Hous ...

The No on Measure L crowd has repeatedly claimed that West Davis Active Adult Community's Affordable Housing Program is in violation of the city ordinance. However, according to the city manager and ...

October 31, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Pancakes and Politics Voter Guide — State, Yolo County and DJUSD Decisions

Posted by Matt Williams
|Date: October 30, 2018
| (12) Comments

Pancakes and Politics Voter Guide — State, Yolo County and DJUSD Decisions

Pancakes and Politics -- Nov 2018 Voter Guide By: Johnny Pancake, Mabel Sirupa, & anonymous authors o ...

Pancakes and Politics -- Nov 2018 Voter Guide By: Johnny Pancake, Mabel Sirupa, & anonymous authors of the People’s Republic of Davis Illustrations: Danielle Fodor (cc-nc-nd) The Infamous Intro (a ...

October 30, 2018
| by Matt Williams

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