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Our Government Has Failed to Defend the Sixth Amendment

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|Date: May 20, 2019
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Our Government Has Failed to Defend the Sixth Amendment

By Kanya Bennett and Ezekiel Edwards On May 8, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) elevated the crisis of federal a ...

By Kanya Bennett and Ezekiel Edwards On May 8, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) elevated the crisis of federal and state governments’ disregard for protecting the right to counsel for people charged with cri ...

May 20, 2019
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Sunday Commentary: Judge Makes Mistake, but Let’s Fix Trackside

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 19, 2019
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Sunday Commentary: Judge Makes Mistake, but Let’s Fix Trackside

Listening to Judge Samuel McAdam during oral arguments in April, it seemed like there was a chance, albei ...

Listening to Judge Samuel McAdam during oral arguments in April, it seemed like there was a chance, albeit remote, that he might change his opinion which invalidates the council's 2017 approval of Tra ...

May 19, 2019
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Police Unions Should Never Undermine Constitutional Policing

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|Date: May 19, 2019
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Police Unions Should Never Undermine Constitutional Policing

By Paige Fernandez In 2017, the Seattle City Council adopted an ordinance establishing a number of progre ...

By Paige Fernandez In 2017, the Seattle City Council adopted an ordinance establishing a number of progressive police reforms aimed at strengthening community trust in police and ensuring police accou ...

May 19, 2019
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My View: Council Looks to Change Pacifico, but Leaves Unanswered a Host of Questions

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|Date: May 18, 2019
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My View: Council Looks to Change Pacifico, but Leaves Unanswered a Host of Questions

The council on Tuesday – faced with neighbors who wanted to demolish Pacifico and build a new facility, h ...

The council on Tuesday – faced with neighbors who wanted to demolish Pacifico and build a new facility, housing a different population – took a decidedly middle ground in their approach seeking a new ...

May 18, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Impacts of SB 50 Being Assessed, Battles Emerge with Suburbs Pushing Back

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 13, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Impacts of SB 50 Being Assessed, Battles Emerge with Suburbs Pushing Back

An article that appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle on Friday looks at the impact of Senator Scott Wi ...

An article that appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle on Friday looks at the impact of Senator Scott Wiener’s sweeping bill, SB 50. As noted in the article, a group called “Walnut Creek for Controll ...

May 13, 2019
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Personal Information Treated Like Raw Material for Surveillance Technology

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|Date: May 12, 2019
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Personal Information Treated Like Raw Material for Surveillance Technology

By Jake Snow The information that you share with a company should not be repurposed or sold without your ...

By Jake Snow The information that you share with a company should not be repurposed or sold without your consent. But companies are building algorithms from massive repositories of personal informatio ...

May 12, 2019
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Mistakenly Jailed Pretrial, Mother Lost Her Job and Kids

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|Date: May 11, 2019
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Mistakenly Jailed Pretrial, Mother Lost Her Job and Kids

By Andrea Woods and Jocelyn Rosnick On April 11, Hamilton County police in Cincinnati, Ohio arrested Ashl ...

By Andrea Woods and Jocelyn Rosnick On April 11, Hamilton County police in Cincinnati, Ohio arrested Ashley Foster in a Target parking lot on charges of trafficking heroin. Foster was with her two you ...

May 11, 2019
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Commentary: Can the Community Support Dense Residential and Mixed-Use in the Downtown?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 08, 2019
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Commentary: Can the Community Support Dense Residential and Mixed-Use in the Downtown?

Last week the Davis Downtown Plan Advisory Committee (DPAC) met to consider a number of recommendations t ...

Last week the Davis Downtown Plan Advisory Committee (DPAC) met to consider a number of recommendations that could form the basis for a draft Downtown Plan. Among their recommendations in general was ...

May 08, 2019
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Commentary: State Housing Growth Slows, but Community Still Has Needs

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 07, 2019
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Commentary: State Housing Growth Slows, but Community Still Has Needs

The population in Davis ticked up about 1 percent from 2018 to 2019, according to an article that appeare ...

The population in Davis ticked up about 1 percent from 2018 to 2019, according to an article that appeared over the weekend in the local paper – about an increase of 762 people, taking the population ...

May 07, 2019
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Finding Common Ground on Repealing the Death Penalty

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|Date: May 06, 2019
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Finding Common Ground on Repealing the Death Penalty

By Hannah Cox What do Michael Bloomberg and Oliver North have in common? How about Michelle Malkin and Ki ...

By Hannah Cox What do Michael Bloomberg and Oliver North have in common? How about Michelle Malkin and Kim Kardashian West, or Ron Paul and Bernie Sanders? They may not share much turf when it comes t ...

May 06, 2019
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Sunday Commentary: Traffic Isn’t Great, but Is Sprawl to Blame?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 05, 2019
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Sunday Commentary: Traffic Isn’t Great, but Is Sprawl to Blame?

Segments of the public are clearly unhappy with traffic congestion. Personally, I’m not a big fan of it ...

Segments of the public are clearly unhappy with traffic congestion. Personally, I’m not a big fan of it either. However, it seems important to put such concerns into perspective. The voters along wi ...

May 05, 2019
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Denying Incarcerated People the Right to Vote Has Its Roots in Racial Policies

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|Date: May 05, 2019
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Denying Incarcerated People the Right to Vote Has Its Roots in Racial Policies

By Jeffrey Robinson “Do you want the Boston marathon bomber to vote?” is a provocative question that acts ...

By Jeffrey Robinson “Do you want the Boston marathon bomber to vote?” is a provocative question that acts as a smokescreen concealing the real issue — why and when did America decide that people convi ...

May 05, 2019
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What Officer Noor’s Conviction Says about Racism in America

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|Date: May 04, 2019
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What Officer Noor’s Conviction Says about Racism in America

By Carl Takei and Paige Fernandez On Tuesday, April 30, a Minnesota jury convicted police officer Mohamed ...

By Carl Takei and Paige Fernandez On Tuesday, April 30, a Minnesota jury convicted police officer Mohamed Noor of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter for shooting and killing Justine Da ...

May 04, 2019
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Guest Commentary: Former Police Officer Supports AB 392

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|Date: April 30, 2019
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Guest Commentary: Former Police Officer Supports AB 392

By Cheryl Dorsey I spent twenty years as a Los Angeles Police Department officer and patrol sergeant. I’m ...

By Cheryl Dorsey I spent twenty years as a Los Angeles Police Department officer and patrol sergeant. I’m also a black woman and a mother to four sons. In 2014, a spate of deadly police use-of-force k ...

April 30, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Pay to Play? Really?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 29, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Pay to Play? Really?

Last year Sebastian Oñate took over as the editor in chief from Debbie Davis – but I’ve never spoken with ...

Last year Sebastian Oñate took over as the editor in chief from Debbie Davis – but I’ve never spoken with him or met with him. I was surprised to learn that this was the case with several of the memb ...

April 29, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Yolo DA Protects Some Victims, but Not All

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 29, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Yolo DA Protects Some Victims, but Not All

I find myself very troubled by the treatment of the victim in the case involving Andres Cordova. What I ...

I find myself very troubled by the treatment of the victim in the case involving Andres Cordova. What I find interesting is that, while I have been a consistent critic of Yolo County DA Jeff Reisig, ...

April 29, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: Will California Really Get Rid of Single-Family Zoning?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 28, 2019
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Sunday Commentary: Will California Really Get Rid of Single-Family Zoning?

The statewide housing crisis has definitely spawned a number of initiatives and some different approaches ...

The statewide housing crisis has definitely spawned a number of initiatives and some different approaches. Earlier this week there was a thought-provoking op-ed in the LA Times, “Holy cow! California ...

April 28, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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My View: Mace Before the Redesign Was Dangerous for Kids and Bicyclists

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 27, 2019
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My View: Mace Before the Redesign Was Dangerous for Kids and Bicyclists

Following my commentary on Mace from Thursday in which we called for El Macero residents to pay for their ...

Following my commentary on Mace from Thursday in which we called for El Macero residents to pay for their fair share of the roadway revisions that they were demanding, I received a letter in response ...

April 27, 2019
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Commentary: Should El Macero Residents Pay for Their Portion of the Roadway Upgrades?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 25, 2019
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Commentary: Should El Macero Residents Pay for Their Portion of the Roadway Upgrades?

On Tuesday night, the Davis City Council agreed at least in principle to have a design firm make revision ...

On Tuesday night, the Davis City Council agreed at least in principle to have a design firm make revisions to the now complete Mace Boulevard project. One of the interesting factors on Tuesday night ...

April 25, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Proposal Won’t Solve Mace Problems, Could Make It Worse

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 22, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Proposal Won’t Solve Mace Problems, Could Make It Worse

When the Davis City Council attempted to address the paid parking pushback, they installed a compromise t ...

When the Davis City Council attempted to address the paid parking pushback, they installed a compromise that on paper seemed rather reasonable. With large numbers of businesses and citizens up in arm ...

April 22, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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