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Guest Commentary: Davis Should Plan to Build More Housing

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|Date: May 08, 2021
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Guest Commentary: Davis Should Plan to Build More Housing

By Jake Berman When I moved to Davis in 1994, housing was cheap and plentiful enough that my parents, a s ...

By Jake Berman When I moved to Davis in 1994, housing was cheap and plentiful enough that my parents, a state worker and a therapist, could afford to buy a house and raise children here. This is no l ...

May 08, 2021
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Guest Commentary: Nevada Prosecutors Are Standing in the Way of Abolishing the Death Penalty

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|Date: May 08, 2021
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Guest Commentary: Nevada Prosecutors Are Standing in the Way of Abolishing the Death Penalty

Time is running out for the state Senate to advance a bill repealing the death penalty. Two influential D ...

Time is running out for the state Senate to advance a bill repealing the death penalty. Two influential Democratic senators also work as prosecutors, and the state’s DA association is fighting the ref ...

May 08, 2021
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Student Opinion: Bill and Melinda Gates Divorce

Posted by Julietta Bisharyan
|Date: May 07, 2021
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Student Opinion: Bill and Melinda Gates Divorce

By Esma Mesihovic After 27 years of marriage, Bill and Melinda Gates have announced their divorce. In a ...

By Esma Mesihovic After 27 years of marriage, Bill and Melinda Gates have announced their divorce. In a Twitter post, they stated that they no longer believe they could “grow together as a couple” i ...

May 07, 2021
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Commentary: Yolo Deputy DA Couzens Opposes Proposed Changes to Robbery Law Even As Boss Attempts to Paint Himself As Reformer

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 06, 2021
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Commentary: Yolo Deputy DA Couzens Opposes Proposed Changes to Robbery Law Even As Boss Attempts to Paint Himself As Reformer

By David M. Greenwald Woodland, CA - As we swing toward campaign season, the Yolo County DA has been atte ...

By David M. Greenwald Woodland, CA - As we swing toward campaign season, the Yolo County DA has been attempting to position himself as a sort of moderate reformer—triangulating between DAs like Sacram ...

May 06, 2021
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Guest Commentary: To Address Systemic Racism, We Must Dismantle Housing Discrimination and Segregation

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|Date: May 06, 2021
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Guest Commentary: To Address Systemic Racism, We Must Dismantle Housing Discrimination and Segregation

Reinstating the 2015 Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing regulation is an essential step the Biden Admi ...

Reinstating the 2015 Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing regulation is an essential step the Biden Administration must take to restore critical housing protections for all. By Jennifer Bellamy Equal ...

May 06, 2021
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Student Opinion: The Viral Infection of New Life

Posted by Julietta Bisharyan
|Date: May 05, 2021
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Student Opinion: The Viral Infection of New Life

By Uriel Rivas The introduction of last year’s COVID-19 pandemic constantly reminded us about one’s morta ...

By Uriel Rivas The introduction of last year’s COVID-19 pandemic constantly reminded us about one’s mortality, isolation and distress. From the death toll of 589,222 for the United States alone to la ...

May 05, 2021
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Guest Commentary: Davis Housing – How You Can Help

Posted by Georgina Valencia
|Date: May 05, 2021
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Guest Commentary: Davis Housing – How You Can Help

by Georgina Valencia, Vera Sandronsky, Bapu Vaitla and Don Kalman The city of Davis, like cities througho ...

by Georgina Valencia, Vera Sandronsky, Bapu Vaitla and Don Kalman The city of Davis, like cities throughout California and the country, has long recognized that lack of affordable housing is a huge pr ...

May 05, 2021
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Student Opinion: The Fight for Everyone to be a King

Posted by Julietta Bisharyan
|Date: May 04, 2021
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Student Opinion: The Fight for Everyone to be a King

By Jacob Vito Earlier this month, JPMorganChase CEO Jamie Dimon released his annual letter to shareholder ...

By Jacob Vito Earlier this month, JPMorganChase CEO Jamie Dimon released his annual letter to shareholders. But unlike what may have been initially expected, Dimon used the opportunity to go past figu ...

May 04, 2021
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Letter: 80 Elected Prosecutors and Law Enforcement Leaders Support Clean Slate Initiatives

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|Date: May 04, 2021
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Letter: 80 Elected Prosecutors and Law Enforcement Leaders Support Clean Slate Initiatives

As leaders committed to justice and fairness, we work every day to earn the trust of our communities and ...

As leaders committed to justice and fairness, we work every day to earn the trust of our communities and repair the harms that have been done by an overly punitive criminal legal system. We believe th ...

May 04, 2021
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Sunday Commentary: Reisig Positioning Himself between Schubert and Boudin

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 02, 2021
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Sunday Commentary: Reisig Positioning Himself between Schubert and Boudin

By David M. Greenwald For the second time in a row, Jeff Reisig, first elected in 2006, will face a chall ...

By David M. Greenwald For the second time in a row, Jeff Reisig, first elected in 2006, will face a challenger. In 2018, he faced Dean Johansson and won by just over 2000 votes in a surprisingly clos ...

May 02, 2021
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Sunday Commentary: Officer-Involved Killings Are Bad, but They Actually Undercount the Problem

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 02, 2021
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Sunday Commentary: Officer-Involved Killings Are Bad, but They Actually Undercount the Problem

By David M. Greenwald Earlier this week we covered the story of a 73-year-old woman with dementia who was ...

By David M. Greenwald Earlier this week we covered the story of a 73-year-old woman with dementia who was taken to the ground violently by an officer in Colorado, mistreated, and the officers got caug ...

May 02, 2021
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Student Opinion: The Covid-19 Crisis in India

Posted by Julietta Bisharyan
|Date: May 01, 2021
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Student Opinion: The Covid-19 Crisis in India

By Esma Mesihovic I distinctly remember watching my first video of the situation in India: crematoriums o ...

By Esma Mesihovic I distinctly remember watching my first video of the situation in India: crematoriums overwhelmed by lines of wrapped bodies near bright funeral pyres. They were urgently running out ...

May 01, 2021
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Guest Commentary: Reimagining Policing in Davis

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|Date: May 01, 2021
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Guest Commentary: Reimagining Policing in Davis

by Mayor Gloria Partida I, along with many in our Nation, breathed a sigh of relief when the Derrick Chau ...

by Mayor Gloria Partida I, along with many in our Nation, breathed a sigh of relief when the Derrick Chauvin guilty verdict was read. Along with that sigh of relief came a flood of other emotions tied ...

May 01, 2021
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Guest Commentary: The Greatest Threat to Defunding the Police? State Pre-emption.

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|Date: May 01, 2021
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Guest Commentary: The Greatest Threat to Defunding the Police? State Pre-emption.

A little-known legal tool allows states to override progressive policies in cities. By John Pfaff When Go ...

A little-known legal tool allows states to override progressive policies in cities. By John Pfaff When Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida signed House Bill 1 into law on April 19, media and civil rights ...

May 01, 2021
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Guest Commentary: Modern Money (in a Nutshell) and the Environment

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|Date: May 01, 2021
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Guest Commentary: Modern Money (in a Nutshell) and the Environment

(c) By Mark Dempsey Special to the Vanguard Modern Money Theory provides an accurate description of feder ...

(c) By Mark Dempsey Special to the Vanguard Modern Money Theory provides an accurate description of federal fiscal policy, and frankly one that's not that exotic--but it appears to be news to environm ...

May 01, 2021
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Student Opinion: As The Pandemic Nears An End, A Look Back

Posted by Julietta Bisharyan
|Date: April 30, 2021
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Student Opinion: As The Pandemic Nears An End, A Look Back

By Jacob Derin On Tuesday, the federal government announced new guidelines on mask-wearing that allow ful ...

By Jacob Derin On Tuesday, the federal government announced new guidelines on mask-wearing that allow fully vaccinated people to be outside without masks except in crowded places. This represents a bi ...

April 30, 2021
| by Julietta Bisharyan

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Letter: Taormino Responds to Vanguard Comments

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|Date: April 30, 2021
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Letter: Taormino Responds to Vanguard Comments

By David Taormino Only in Davis are you guilty of a “crime” (breaking a promise) before you commit it. N ...

By David Taormino Only in Davis are you guilty of a “crime” (breaking a promise) before you commit it. Not only are you presumed guilty of yet to occur offense; there is talk of your punishment. No ...

April 30, 2021
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Letter: Police Oppose Federal Menthol Ban Proposal

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|Date: April 29, 2021
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Letter: Police Oppose Federal Menthol Ban Proposal

Menthol Bans Fail to Reduce Smoking While Creating Additional Tensions Between Police & Communities o ...

Menthol Bans Fail to Reduce Smoking While Creating Additional Tensions Between Police & Communities of Color On Wednesday, the Law Enforcement Action Partnership released a letter sent to the FDA ...

April 29, 2021
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Guest Commentary: The Unhappy 25th Birthday of Two Tough-on-Crime Era Laws That Have Deadly Consequences for Incarcerated People

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|Date: April 28, 2021
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Guest Commentary: The Unhappy 25th Birthday of Two Tough-on-Crime Era Laws That Have Deadly Consequences for Incarcerated People

The PLRA and AEDPA have caused untold pain and suffering for people in prisons — they must be repealed. B ...

The PLRA and AEDPA have caused untold pain and suffering for people in prisons — they must be repealed. By Brian Stull and Tammie Gregg This week, 25 years ago, Congress enacted a pair of laws that se ...

April 28, 2021
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Student Opinion: A Women-Centered Hackathon From UC Davis

Posted by Julietta Bisharyan
|Date: April 27, 2021
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Student Opinion: A Women-Centered Hackathon From UC Davis

By Esma Mesihovic UC Davis just finished organizing its first women-focused hackathon, Lovelace Hacks 202 ...

By Esma Mesihovic UC Davis just finished organizing its first women-focused hackathon, Lovelace Hacks 2021. Launched by SacHacks and WiCS, it was a virtual event that spanned acrross three days starti ...

April 27, 2021
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