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Grand Opening – The Davis Green Onion 2nd Edition

Posted by Tia Will
|Date: January 29, 2017
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Grand Opening – The Davis Green Onion 2nd Edition

By Tia Will On Sunday 1/29/17, renowned local gynecologist Tia Will announced the grand opening of a new ...

By Tia Will On Sunday 1/29/17, renowned local gynecologist Tia Will announced the grand opening of a new hospital in Davis, California. Dr. Will stated that she was inspired by recent events in Washin ...

January 29, 2017
| by Tia Will

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Transitions in Medicine – One Doctor’s Perspective

Posted by Tia Will
|Date: November 12, 2016
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Transitions in Medicine – One Doctor’s Perspective

By Tia Will Today, I was asked to write about transitions as they occur in medicine by a fellow poster on ...

By Tia Will Today, I was asked to write about transitions as they occur in medicine by a fellow poster on the thread regarding the reaction to the national election. This request comes at a particular ...

November 12, 2016
| by Tia Will

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Report on NPR Finds Berkeley Soda Tax Working

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 28, 2016
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Report on NPR Finds Berkeley Soda Tax Working

NPR reporter Dan Charles this week on NPR’s signature “All Things Considered,” reports, “The nation's fir ...

NPR reporter Dan Charles this week on NPR’s signature “All Things Considered,” reports, “The nation's first 'soda tax' on sugar-sweetened beverages, which went into effect in Berkeley, Calif., last ye ...

August 28, 2016
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: It Is Never OK to Say There Is a Stigma to Mental Health

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: July 30, 2016
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Guest Commentary: It Is Never OK to Say There Is a Stigma to Mental Health

by Harold A. Maio It is never OK to say there is a stigma to mental health issues, it is always OK to edu ...

by Harold A. Maio It is never OK to say there is a stigma to mental health issues, it is always OK to educate someone who does. It is, in fact imperative that we do, to end the harm such prejudice has ...

July 30, 2016
| by Vanguard Administrator

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NAMI Up-Beat: When the Body Attacks the Mind

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: July 29, 2016
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NAMI Up-Beat: When the Body Attacks the Mind

by NAMI Yolo Ground-breaking research is finding that autoimmune disorders can cause mental symptoms such ...

by NAMI Yolo Ground-breaking research is finding that autoimmune disorders can cause mental symptoms such as delusions. Our understanding of changes in the brain is evolving in unexpected ways. Recent ...

July 29, 2016
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Shades of Grey in a Black and White World View

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: June 30, 2016
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Shades of Grey in a Black and White World View

By David N Hafter, MFT “What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate.” The Captain (Strother Martin) i ...

By David N Hafter, MFT “What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate.” The Captain (Strother Martin) in 1967’s Cool Hand Luke We Americans are constantly suffering the negative consequences of blac ...

June 30, 2016
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Awareness: A Plea for Local Empathy

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: March 07, 2016
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Awareness: A Plea for Local Empathy

by Jerika L.H. Last week, I accompanied two friends to the movies to see The Witch. As the opening credit ...

by Jerika L.H. Last week, I accompanied two friends to the movies to see The Witch. As the opening credits began to roll, two women and a child in what appeared to be a wheelchair came in and found a ...

March 07, 2016
| by Vanguard Administrator

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My View: Why Go After Soda First?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 06, 2016
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My View: Why Go After Soda First?

I keep seeing reference in letters to the editor and Bob Dunning’s columns questioning why the health ind ...

I keep seeing reference in letters to the editor and Bob Dunning’s columns questioning why the health industry is going after soda or sugar-sweetened beverages and ignoring a whole host of other sugar ...

February 06, 2016
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: This Was Not the Davis Way

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 04, 2016
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Commentary: This Was Not the Davis Way

On Monday at the press conference, the comment that rang most true was made by former Davis Mayor Ann Eva ...

On Monday at the press conference, the comment that rang most true was made by former Davis Mayor Ann Evans, who stated, “In my day, my council, this would have been on the ballot.” That was a comment ...

February 04, 2016
| by David Greenwald

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Council Caves on Soda Tax on 3-2 Vote

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 03, 2016
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Council Caves on Soda Tax on 3-2 Vote

As a graduate student in political science at UC Davis, I often was a teaching assistant for a professor ...

As a graduate student in political science at UC Davis, I often was a teaching assistant for a professor in American Government who would argue that, when the going got tough and a President wanted to ...

February 03, 2016
| by David Greenwald

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Supporters Make Their Pitch for Soda Tax at City Hall Rally

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 02, 2016
| (75) Comments

Supporters Make Their Pitch for Soda Tax at City Hall Rally

About 40 supporters of the soda tax made their case on Monday outside the Davis City Hall, requesting tha ...

About 40 supporters of the soda tax made their case on Monday outside the Davis City Hall, requesting that the Davis City Council put a tax measure on the ballot for the June elections. However, they ...

February 02, 2016
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: Why I Joined the Effort to Tax Sugar-Sweetened Beverages

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: February 02, 2016
| (70) Comments

Guest Commentary: Why I Joined the Effort to Tax Sugar-Sweetened Beverages

by Neil Ruud When my friend asked me the other day, “You’re asking for an increase in the tax? how much a ...

by Neil Ruud When my friend asked me the other day, “You’re asking for an increase in the tax? how much are they currently being taxed?” I laughed and told him there wasn’t a tax yet but, upon further ...

February 02, 2016
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Play it Again, Sam

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: February 01, 2016
| (27) Comments

Play it Again, Sam

by David Hafter Sometimes, the best (non-academic) teaching is just a matter reminding someone of what th ...

by David Hafter Sometimes, the best (non-academic) teaching is just a matter reminding someone of what they already know. They have either forgotten to employ current knowledge or it did not occur to ...

February 01, 2016
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Sunday Commentary: Soda Tax Deserves a Real Chance on the June Ballot

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 31, 2016
| (35) Comments

Sunday Commentary: Soda Tax Deserves a Real Chance on the June Ballot

On Monday afternoon, a collection of Davis citizens led by Delaine Eastin (Former State Superintendent of ...

On Monday afternoon, a collection of Davis citizens led by Delaine Eastin (Former State Superintendent of Public Instruction), Yolo County Supervisor Don Saylor, and Mayor Pro Tem Robb Davis, Davis Ci ...

January 31, 2016
| by David Greenwald

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Bill to Eliminate March 1 Deadline on Medical Marijuana Reaches Governor’s Desk

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 29, 2016
| (1) Comment

Bill to Eliminate March 1 Deadline on Medical Marijuana Reaches Governor’s Desk

Legislation that would eliminate the March 1, 2016, deadline for cities and counties to pass cultivation ...

Legislation that would eliminate the March 1, 2016, deadline for cities and counties to pass cultivation ordinances or face state pre-emption passed unanimously in the Assembly (66-0) on Thursday, as ...

January 29, 2016
| by David Greenwald

| (1) Comment

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A Discussion about the Health Impacts of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: January 27, 2016
| (55) Comments

A Discussion about the Health Impacts of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages

ARE SODAS REALLY SO BAD? A Discussion about the Health Impacts of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages A lot of peop ...

ARE SODAS REALLY SO BAD? A Discussion about the Health Impacts of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages A lot of people know that sugary beverages aren’t very healthy, but are they actually harmful? Are they so ...

January 27, 2016
| by Vanguard Administrator

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My View: Why Keep Denying We Have a Public Health Crisis?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 23, 2016
| (96) Comments

My View: Why Keep Denying We Have a Public Health Crisis?

In a recent column, Davis Enterprise columnist Bob Dunning pushes back against a public health brochure o ...

In a recent column, Davis Enterprise columnist Bob Dunning pushes back against a public health brochure on sugar, calling it “a big flop” because apparently a number of people emailed complaints to th ...

January 23, 2016
| by David Greenwald

| (96) Comments

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Council Passes Temporary Marijuana Ordinance, Lays Groundwork For More Sweeping Reforms

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 13, 2016
| (29) Comments

Council Passes Temporary Marijuana Ordinance, Lays Groundwork For More Sweeping Reforms

Under the Medical Marijuana Regulation and Safety Act, which comprehensively regulates medical marijuana, ...

Under the Medical Marijuana Regulation and Safety Act, which comprehensively regulates medical marijuana, the city is required to enact a local ordinance on cultivation by March 1 or it will have to f ...

January 13, 2016
| by David Greenwald

| (29) Comments

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Public Health Groups Fight Back on Soda Tax

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 12, 2016
| (48) Comments

Public Health Groups Fight Back on Soda Tax

Back in December, a group of former and current public officials, including Senator Lois Wolk, Former Ass ...

Back in December, a group of former and current public officials, including Senator Lois Wolk, Former Assemblymember and Supervisor Helen Thomson and Former Mayor Ann Evans, came forward to ask the co ...

January 12, 2016
| by David Greenwald

| (48) Comments

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My View: Should Davis Re-Think its Policies on Medical Marijuana?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 09, 2016
| (19) Comments

My View: Should Davis Re-Think its Policies on Medical Marijuana?

There is an item on the agenda for the Davis City Council this week, proposing an ordinance regulating ma ...

There is an item on the agenda for the Davis City Council this week, proposing an ordinance regulating marijuana cultivation. This item is necessitated by recently adopted legislation, the Medical Mar ...

January 09, 2016
| by David Greenwald

| (19) Comments

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