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Guest Commentary: Authoritarianism Is Knocking, Don’t Let It In

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|Date: September 05, 2020
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Guest Commentary: Authoritarianism Is Knocking, Don’t Let It In

by Scott Steward Ragsdale Scott Atlas, a radiologist, a frequent contributor to Fox, with rudimentary tra ...

by Scott Steward Ragsdale Scott Atlas, a radiologist, a frequent contributor to Fox, with rudimentary training in infectious disease, qualifies for National Administrative Medical oversight because of ...

September 05, 2020
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A Visual Timeline of COVID-19 in CDCR’s San Quentin – May to July 2020

Posted by Aparna Komarla
|Date: July 27, 2020
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A Visual Timeline of COVID-19 in CDCR’s San Quentin – May to July 2020

By Nikki Suzani, Julietta Bisharyan & Mella Bettag A Visual Timeline of COVID-19 in CDCR (Focus on Sa ...

By Nikki Suzani, Julietta Bisharyan & Mella Bettag A Visual Timeline of COVID-19 in CDCR (Focus on San Quentin) - Testing, Cases, Releases (May 2020 - July 2020) May 30th 2020: Chico Transfer 121 ...

July 27, 2020
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Board of State and Community Corrections Gives CDCR $15 Million For Housing Newly-Released Individuals Due to COVID-19 – Weekly Highlights – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CDCR

Posted by Aparna Komarla
|Date: July 26, 2020
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Board of State and Community Corrections Gives CDCR $15 Million For Housing Newly-Released Individuals Due to COVID-19 – Weekly Highlights – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CDCR

(Dashboard updates daily - M-F) By Julietta Bisharyan & Mella Bettag CDCR Confirmed COV ...

(Dashboard updates daily - M-F) By Julietta Bisharyan & Mella Bettag CDCR Confirmed COVID-19 Cases and Outcomes As of July 24, there are a total of 7,481 confirmed COVID-19 cases in ...

July 26, 2020
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Solano County Jail Reports First COVID-19 Case – Questions Persist About Accuracy of Counts – Weekly Highlights – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CA Jails

Posted by Aparna Komarla
|Date: July 26, 2020
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Solano County Jail Reports First COVID-19 Case – Questions Persist About Accuracy of Counts – Weekly Highlights – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CA Jails

By Nikki Suzani Highlights (July 20th - 25th) Solano County Jail reported its first positive case of COVI ...

By Nikki Suzani Highlights (July 20th - 25th) Solano County Jail reported its first positive case of COVID-19 on Wednesday, July 22. The Solano County JDF has still not reported any positive cases. 22 ...

July 26, 2020
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Outbreak in Santa Rita Jail – 101 Active Cases in 2 Days – Weekly Highlights -Breaking Down COVID-19 in CA Jails

Posted by Aparna Komarla
|Date: July 19, 2020
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Outbreak in Santa Rita Jail – 101 Active Cases in 2 Days – Weekly Highlights -Breaking Down COVID-19 in CA Jails

(Page 2: Alameda County) By Larkin White Confirmed COVID-19 Cases and Outcomes As of July 18, there a ...

(Page 2: Alameda County) By Larkin White Confirmed COVID-19 Cases and Outcomes As of July 18, there are 101 active confirmed COVID-19 cases in Santa Rita Jail (SRJ), more than double the total num ...

July 19, 2020
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Garamendi Supports Trump Impeachment Inquiry at Packed Davis Townhall

Posted by Danielle Silva
|Date: October 15, 2019
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Garamendi Supports Trump Impeachment Inquiry at Packed Davis Townhall

By Danielle Silva Congressman John Garamendi appeared in Davis for a town hall talk about policies releva ...

By Danielle Silva Congressman John Garamendi appeared in Davis for a town hall talk about policies relevant to the community at large. The following are his opinions, shared during the beginning of th ...

October 15, 2019
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Mixed Responses as Turkey Votes “Yes” on Constitutional Referendum

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 18, 2017
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Mixed Responses as Turkey Votes “Yes” on Constitutional Referendum

by Jerika L.H, reporting from Europe Although official numbers will not be in for ten days, initial ballo ...

by Jerika L.H, reporting from Europe Although official numbers will not be in for ten days, initial ballot counters have confirmed that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has emerged victorious in ...

April 18, 2017
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LGBTQI Violations Part of Larger Context of Chechen Genocide

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|Date: April 14, 2017
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LGBTQI Violations Part of Larger Context of Chechen Genocide

by Jerika L.H., reporting from Europe The small region of Chechnya has been under global examination as p ...

by Jerika L.H., reporting from Europe The small region of Chechnya has been under global examination as people around the world have recoiled in horror amidst emerging news that gay men have been roun ...

April 14, 2017
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The 2021 Presidential Inaugural Address: World Citizen #6

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|Date: March 10, 2017
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The 2021 Presidential Inaugural Address: World Citizen #6

by Scott Ragsdale This essay skips ahead to the final in the series. I skip ahead because the movement n ...

by Scott Ragsdale This essay skips ahead to the final in the series. I skip ahead because the movement needs vision and I use the format of the 2021 President’s inaugural address to provide that visi ...

March 10, 2017
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Essays from a World Citizen

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|Date: February 08, 2017
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Essays from a World Citizen

by Scott Ragsdale This is the first in a series of essays on the political themes of our times. The obje ...

by Scott Ragsdale This is the first in a series of essays on the political themes of our times. The objective of these essays is to draw conclusions from our predicament that will allow organizations ...

February 08, 2017
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Huge Crowd Shows Up at Protest in Front of Garamendi’s Office Tuesday

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 01, 2017
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Huge Crowd Shows Up at Protest in Front of Garamendi’s Office Tuesday

Organizers describe that at least 170 people showed up at what appeared to be a last-minute protest in Da ...

Organizers describe that at least 170 people showed up at what appeared to be a last-minute protest in Davis in front of Congressman John Garamendi’s office, to protest Trump’s policies in general. O ...

February 01, 2017
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The Davis Green Onion – Edition 1

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: December 03, 2016
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The Davis Green Onion – Edition 1

by Tia Will The president-elect has made a bold choice in Dr. Tom Price to head Health and Human services ...

by Tia Will The president-elect has made a bold choice in Dr. Tom Price to head Health and Human services. Dr. Price, an orthopedic surgeon and seasoned legislator, has now proven himself to be a visi ...

December 03, 2016
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Commentary: Deep in the Heart of Blue Country… The Reaction

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 10, 2016
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Commentary: Deep in the Heart of Blue Country… The Reaction

In many ways, I have never seen anything like this. I was very young in 1980 when Ronald Reagan beat Jim ...

In many ways, I have never seen anything like this. I was very young in 1980 when Ronald Reagan beat Jimmy Carter, and a dozen or so longtime Democratic Senators, many of them stalwarts of the opposi ...

November 10, 2016
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Special Commentary: My Frank Assessment on the State of the Union

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 09, 2016
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Special Commentary: My Frank Assessment on the State of the Union

Two very deeply flawed candidates faced off last night and it appears that Donald Trump will win the Elec ...

Two very deeply flawed candidates faced off last night and it appears that Donald Trump will win the Electoral College and quite possibly lose the popular vote (the last I checked Hillary had a very n ...

November 09, 2016
| by David Greenwald

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Election Day – Open Thread

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 08, 2016
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Election Day – Open Thread

Hey everyone - today figures to be interesting. We have avoided national politics for sanity reasons, bu ...

Hey everyone - today figures to be interesting. We have avoided national politics for sanity reasons, but today is about both local and national politics so today will be a more free form discussion. ...

November 08, 2016
| by David Greenwald

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Political End Times

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|Date: November 01, 2016
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Political End Times

by Dr. Andy Jones "Forms of politics are processes, not ends." Roslyn Fuller When you’ve li ...

by Dr. Andy Jones "Forms of politics are processes, not ends." Roslyn Fuller When you’ve lived through as many presidential elections as I have, you learn to expect one or multiple candi ...

November 01, 2016
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Are Republicans Nostalgic for the Gilded Age?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 21, 2014
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Are Republicans Nostalgic for the Gilded Age?

By Claire Goldstene The Republican Party today could be rechristened the Party of the Second Gilded Age. ...

By Claire Goldstene The Republican Party today could be rechristened the Party of the Second Gilded Age. Hostility to abortion and affirmative action, deregulation of industry, tax breaks for the weal ...

November 21, 2014
| by David Greenwald

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Community News: People’s Climate Action Day, School Board Events

Posted by Sailor boy
|Date: September 16, 2014
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Community News: People’s Climate Action Day, School Board Events

Sunder For School Board Hosts “Back To School Kickoff” Celebration! Join Madhavi Sunder and her team of e ...

Sunder For School Board Hosts “Back To School Kickoff” Celebration! Join Madhavi Sunder and her team of energized campaign volunteers for its “Back to School Kickoff” celebration hosted by the Zaragoz ...

September 16, 2014
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GMOs and the Dilemma of Bias (by Adam Frank – republished from NPR)

Posted by Matt Williams
|Date: January 08, 2014
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GMOs and the Dilemma of Bias (by Adam Frank – republished from NPR)

By Adam Frank (from NPR.org) For original article see GMOs and the Dilemma of Bias on NPR.org We have tak ...

By Adam Frank (from NPR.org) For original article see GMOs and the Dilemma of Bias on NPR.org We have taken on the issue of science and politics a lot in this blog. As a culture saturated with science ...

January 08, 2014
| by Matt Williams

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