Format Also Contributed to Lack of Substance on the Part of City Council Candidates - The community on Tuesday got their first real exposure to the council candidates as the Chamber of Commerce hosted ...

The Sacramento Bee yesterday ran a story under the headline, "Davis Councilman Won't Budge, May Force Costly Special Election."  In it, the Sacramento Bee firmly sticks its nose into an internal Davis ...

The 2010 candidates for Davis City Council met on Tuesday for the first time in a debate as the Davis Chamber of Commerce hosted them for a luncheon.  Not surprisingly the questions focused on the eco ...

Okay I just read the Enterprise editorial on how to solve the "problem" of Don Saylor leaving the council, and my first reaction is that this must be a late April Fool's Joke.  Talk about a solution i ...

The Vanguard back in early February analyzed the early filings by the Council candidates where Joe Krovoza had a small lead over Sydney Vergis.  At that time, they were the only declared candidates.  ...

The Council election is less than three months away and most of the public knows very little about most of the candidates.  The Vanguard will have extensive coverage of the City Council campaign.  Tod ...

The Davis Enterprise ran an article on Thursday that certainly did not clear up that issue.  However, we do know that Don Saylor will serve as Mayor and on the City Council until at least the end of D ...

Those either in attendance on Tuesday night at the Davis City Council meeting or watching on TV got a unique introduction to Council Candidate Daniel Watts.  In his ballot statement he states flatly t ...

In 2008, Davis elected three incumbents to the Davis City Council, meaning that the Davis City Council from 2008 to 2010 would be the same as the one from 2006 to 2008.  That will not be the case this ...

Lamar Heystek announced this afternoon at 4:30 pm in vestibule outside of the Community Chambers that his decision from October stood and he will not seek re-election.  He thanked the outpouring of su ...

As campaign time roles around, there is the bi-annual debate over what a campaign donation means and whether certain groups can purchase influence through a process of bundling checks.  It was interes ...

In October of last year, Councilmember Lamar Heystek stunned many in the community and many of his closest supporters by announcing he would not seek a second term to the Davis City Council.  As it tu ...

And then there were three again.  There was a brief period of time when it looked like candidates Sydney Vergis and Joe Krovoza would be anointed rather than elected to the Davis City Council.  That w ...

Last October Councilmember Lamar Heystek announced that he would not seek a second term as Councilmember.  The move stunned many in the community who had grown to respect him for both his principles a ...

Mayor Ruth Asmundson made official what many have speculated in the weeks following the January 26, 2010 City Council Meeting she will not seek a third term to the Davis City Council.  Her decision is ...

So far there are only two candidates for the Davis City Council, however, that is likely to change as the filing deadline approaches.  In the meantime, the two announced candidates have raised roughly ...

Something did not seem right Sunday when on the front page of the Davis Enterprise, there was a picture of Sydney Vergis, who had just announced her candidacy for city council for the second time.  Sh ...

City of Davis The results for Measure N can be looked at in two ways. On the one hand, the measure failed by just 2000 votes despite large amounts of public confusion about what the measure would do a ...

City of Davis In what may end up being the deathblow for the already beleaguered proposal to create a Charter City in Davis, Mayor Ruth Asmundson who was part of the 4-1 vote to place Measure N on the ...

Early this year, the Davis City Council passed an ordinance that allowed tenants of rental units in the City of Davis to post political signs in their rental units. The ordinance was to supersede any ...