Davis Lags behind rest of county in percentage of vote-by-mail returns As of Monday, October 27, 2008, the city of Davis lagged behind the rest of the county in terms of Vote by Mail ballot returns. W ...

While the Vanguard does not endorse candidates, we do make recommendations on issues. Many of these you can of course glean simply by reading the articles on this site. But since I have had a number o ...

by Stephen Souza and Lamar HeystekWe wish to rebut a recent e-mail in which Mayor Pro Tem Don Saylor outlines his argument against Measure N.Mr. Saylor argues that few cities in California have charte ...

by Pam Nieberg, Nancy Price, Don Shor, Rick EntrikinThe City Council has placed on the November ballot a Charter, Measure N, for the City of Davis. We are being asked to make a fundamental change in h ...

On August 24, 2008, Davis Councilmember Lamar Heystek wrote a Guest Commentary for the Vanguard: "The Case For Home Rule for Davis."Yesterday, Councilmember Heystek was joined by Councilmember Stephen ...

I was originally going to write about the Enterprise Endorsement and then cover the Op-Ed by Councilmembers Stephen Souza and Lamar Heystek and a letter to the editor by former Councilmember Jerry Adl ...

Up until now I had been neutral on Measure N--the charter city initiative. I have from the beginning however had some trepidations about it. Most recently I have been concerned about the potential for ...

The silence was suddenly broken this morning. The focus in the city of Davis has been almost exclusively on either the Presidential election or the Parcel Tax. There has been some talk about the State ...

by Lamar HeystekIn Davis, the power of the people is real, and anyone who seeks to tamper with it is playing with fire. The campaign to defeat Measure X, the 2005 Covell Village proposal, is the perfe ...

Two years ago, PG&E spent over $10 million in an effort to prevent Yolo County from approving a public power initiative. Now PG&E is back in the news at the local level as well as at the state ...

It was a 4-1 vote on Tuesday night in favor of the charter. The chief proponents of the charter really wanted a unanimous vote, frankly they were fortunate that they got even four votes.A charter city ...

It was not a good night either for me or the Progressives in the Davis City Council Election. Don Saylor was the top vote getter, meaning he is Mayor Pro Tem and will be Mayor in 2010. Stephen Souza f ...

For some inexplicable reason the California Aggie decided to have their endorsement interviews on Sunday and announce their endorsement the day of the election. To put this into perspective, students ...

Yesterday, I found more literature from the Davis Firefighters on my door step. In addition to an apparent reissuing of the brochure from earlier this month, it appears they will be using a fire helme ...

In Friday's Davis Enterprise, it was reported that a group calling itself Delta Breeze had raised $1500 in support of an independent expenditure campaign. The expenditures were for a number of banners ...

In a press release dated May 16, 2008, the Sierra Club Yolano Group issued grades of the Davis City Council candidates. "Cecilia Escamilla-Greenwald and Sue Greenwald rated an “A” grade based on answe ...

Last week, Rich Rifkin wrote a piece on political signs. It was an interesting piece that covered a key aspect--the visibility and effectiveness of signs. And while it misses out on a key point about ...

To their credit the Davis Enterprise is running a series of questions and answers from the city council candidates. They limit the responses to 100 words each but print the responses verbatim. This is ...

At each of the debates thus far this election cycle, someone has promoted the Nishi Property as a good place for future development. It seems that Sydney Vergis has consistently promoted the property ...

In a stunning surprise, the Sacramento Bee yesterday endorsed a "New Political Dynamic in Davis." Actually since they endorsed two incumbents--Don Saylor and Sue Greenwald, the only new political dyna ...