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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 14-15 vote, that ...

In January 1996, a governance committee appointed by the city council recommended, by a 14-15 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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Commentary: Errors in Dunning Column Lead to Wrong Conclusions on City Demographics

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 12, 2019
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Commentary: Errors in Dunning Column Lead to Wrong Conclusions on City Demographics

In a column that appeared in the Sunday, September 1, paper, Bob Dunning writes that he sent a note to Ma ...

In a column that appeared in the Sunday, September 1, paper, Bob Dunning writes that he sent a note to Mayor Pro Tem Gloria Partida “asking what she thinks about our sudden move to district elections. ...

September 12, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Déjà vu: Council Hears District Elections Presentation Again

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 11, 2019
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Déjà vu: Council Hears District Elections Presentation Again

It was déjà vu night at the city council meeting on Tuesday as the city was required by law to have the e ...

It was déjà vu night at the city council meeting on Tuesday as the city was required by law to have the exact same presentation repeated by demographer Paul Mitchell. What wasn’t déjà vu was the fiery ...

September 11, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Initial Thoughts – Seven Districts a Real Possibility

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 05, 2019
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Commentary: Initial Thoughts – Seven Districts a Real Possibility

We learned a lot from the initial discussion on district elections and the very impressive presentation b ...

We learned a lot from the initial discussion on district elections and the very impressive presentation by Paul Mitchell. The biggest take-home message is that there may be a majority of council memb ...

September 05, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Council Open to 7 Districts, Opposes At-Large Mayor

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 04, 2019
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Council Open to 7 Districts, Opposes At-Large Mayor

While the city council mainly just listened to both public comment and the presentation by Demographer Pa ...

While the city council mainly just listened to both public comment and the presentation by Demographer Paul Mitchell on Tuesday, they did make some tentative decisions. Basically, there seemed strong ...

September 04, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Demographer Presents the Possibilities for Districts in Davis

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 04, 2019
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Demographer Presents the Possibilities for Districts in Davis

Demographer Paul Mitchell did a presentation last night (the full set of his presentation slides are avai ...

Demographer Paul Mitchell did a presentation last night (the full set of his presentation slides are available on the City website) and explained that, while Federal law uses “majority minority” distr ...

September 04, 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: The Decision on District Elections Has Been Made, Now We Turn to Details

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 02, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: The Decision on District Elections Has Been Made, Now We Turn to Details

People are still debating over whether the city should challenge district elections. Writes Al Sokolow: “ ...

People are still debating over whether the city should challenge district elections. Writes Al Sokolow: “To argue the hardly surprising generation that voters tend to favor candidates from their own r ...

September 02, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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City Begins Outreach and Seeks Input on City Council Districts

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: August 30, 2019
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City Begins Outreach and Seeks Input on City Council Districts

(Press Release – City of Davis) –The City of Davis announced today that it has started outreach efforts f ...

(Press Release – City of Davis) –The City of Davis announced today that it has started outreach efforts for the city governance conversion to district elections scheduled for November 2020. The City c ...

August 30, 2019
| by Vanguard Administrator

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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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Why Are Davis College Republicans Behind the CVRA Suit? They Aren’t Talking

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 16, 2019
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Why Are Davis College Republicans Behind the CVRA Suit? They Aren’t Talking

On Thursday, the Vanguard received a tip that two members on the Davis College Republicans Executive Boar ...

On Thursday, the Vanguard received a tip that two members on the Davis College Republicans Executive Board – JB Martinez and Karan Brar – are the plaintiffs in the CVRA (California Voting Rights Act) ...

August 16, 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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Council Accedes to Demands, Will Move toward District Elections in November 2020

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 14, 2019
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Council Accedes to Demands, Will Move toward District Elections in November 2020

The city council on Tuesday made it clear that they did not like the tactics of former Supervisor Matt Re ...

The city council on Tuesday made it clear that they did not like the tactics of former Supervisor Matt Rexroad, but they also made it clear that they had no choice, given the state of the law in Calif ...

August 14, 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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Monday Morning Thoughts: Do We Really Need a Citizen’s Commission for This?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 12, 2019
| (43) Comments

Monday Morning Thoughts: Do We Really Need a Citizen’s Commission for This?

Yesterday, Matt Williams published a guest commentary that outlined what he believed to be several “defic ...

Yesterday, Matt Williams published a guest commentary that outlined what he believed to be several “deficiencies” with the staff report on district elections. Among his complaints was that staff was ...

August 12, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: Staff Report for Tuesday’s Council Consideration of District Election Has Major Deficiencies

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: August 11, 2019
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Guest Commentary: Staff Report for Tuesday’s Council Consideration of District Election Has Major Deficiencies

by Matt Williams The Staff Report for the consideration of district elections omits several important con ...

by Matt Williams The Staff Report for the consideration of district elections omits several important considerations, which include but are not limited to the following: . (1) The Fiscal Impact sectio ...

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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