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Letter: We Are Seeking 800 Signatures to Place Vacated DJUSD Seat on the November Ballot

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: July 11, 2020
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Letter: We Are Seeking 800 Signatures to Place Vacated DJUSD Seat on the November Ballot

By Robb Davis On Thursday July, 2, the Davis Joint Unified School District (DJUSD) Board of Trustees made ...

By Robb Davis On Thursday July, 2, the Davis Joint Unified School District (DJUSD) Board of Trustees made a provisional appointment to fill a board seat vacated by the resignation of Cindy Pickett, wh ...

July 11, 2020
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Open Letter: Yolo County COVID-19 Emergency Response in Latinx Community

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: July 11, 2020
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Open Letter: Yolo County COVID-19 Emergency Response in Latinx Community

Dear Yolo County Leaders and Officials, We are concerned about the rapid spread of COVID-19 in Yolo Count ...

Dear Yolo County Leaders and Officials, We are concerned about the rapid spread of COVID-19 in Yolo County among Latinx community members. We are requesting immediate, targeted, and culturally appropr ...

July 11, 2020
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Open Letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom from Criminal Justice and Prison Scholars

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: July 10, 2020
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Open Letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom from Criminal Justice and Prison Scholars

More than a decade ago you showed courage, initiative, and deep commitment to human rights and dignity wh ...

More than a decade ago you showed courage, initiative, and deep commitment to human rights and dignity when, as Mayor of San Francisco, you opened the door to same-sex marriages. As Governor, you show ...

July 10, 2020
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Letter: Recommendations for Reducing the Prison Population and Protecting People in California Prisons

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: July 10, 2020
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Letter: Recommendations for Reducing the Prison Population and Protecting People in California Prisons

by Mano Raju This is an immeasurably difficult time. With 2,419 incarcerated persons with active cases of ...

by Mano Raju This is an immeasurably difficult time. With 2,419 incarcerated persons with active cases of COVID-19 in California prisons statewide and over 1,500 people who are incarcerated or work in ...

July 10, 2020
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Commentary: Yolo County Opened Too Soon

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 09, 2020
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Commentary: Yolo County Opened Too Soon

Supervisor Jim Provenza yesterday posted the county update on COVID—I made the quick comment, “You guys o ...

Supervisor Jim Provenza yesterday posted the county update on COVID—I made the quick comment, “You guys opened too soon” and, while it got a bunch of likes on Facebook, Provenza himself offered no res ...

July 09, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Letter: Clergy Comment on Affordable Housing

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: July 08, 2020
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Letter: Clergy Comment on Affordable Housing

To the editor: The owners of the University Mall, the Brixmor Property Group, have applied to the City fo ...

To the editor: The owners of the University Mall, the Brixmor Property Group, have applied to the City for permission to demolish the existing shopping center and replace it with a mixed-use project o ...

July 08, 2020
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Letter: People Power Supports Fundamental Change to Davis Policing Model

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: July 07, 2020
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Letter: People Power Supports Fundamental Change to Davis Policing Model

Yolo People Power is grateful to those Davis City Council Members and Candidates who have publicly suppor ...

Yolo People Power is grateful to those Davis City Council Members and Candidates who have publicly supported fundamental change from the current policing model, to a new Public Safety System. Thank y ...

July 07, 2020
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Reisig, PPIC Study, and Racial Disparity in Criminal Legal System

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 06, 2020
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Reisig, PPIC Study, and Racial Disparity in Criminal Legal System

Part of the defense offered by Yolo County DA Jeff Reisig, in face of criticism that Yolo County has abou ...

Part of the defense offered by Yolo County DA Jeff Reisig, in face of criticism that Yolo County has about 28 percent of its jail comprised of Blacks while the share of the overall population for that ...

July 06, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: To Change Buyers Program, City Needs to Put Project Back on the Ballot

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 06, 2020
| (46) Comments

Monday Morning Thoughts: To Change Buyers Program, City Needs to Put Project Back on the Ballot

There is a proposal on the agenda of the Planning Commission this week that would remove the Davis Based ...

There is a proposal on the agenda of the Planning Commission this week that would remove the Davis Based Buyers Program from the Bretton Woods project. I am troubled by the city’s approach to this iss ...

July 06, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: A Study Finds That Protests Have Not Driven the Spike in COVID Cases

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 05, 2020
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Sunday Commentary: A Study Finds That Protests Have Not Driven the Spike in COVID Cases

Are we going to have another spike of COVID after this 4th of July weekend? Last week Capitol Public Radi ...

Are we going to have another spike of COVID after this 4th of July weekend? Last week Capitol Public Radio reported that public health officials believe that “the reopening of businesses in many Calif ...

July 05, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: David Taormino and Bretton Woods Are Attempting a ‘Bait-and-Switch’ with the Davis-Based Buyers Program

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: July 05, 2020
| (16) Comments

Guest Commentary: David Taormino and Bretton Woods Are Attempting a ‘Bait-and-Switch’ with the Davis-Based Buyers Program

by Alan Pryor David Taormino, the developer of the Bretton Woods senior housing development just west of ...

by Alan Pryor David Taormino, the developer of the Bretton Woods senior housing development just west of Sutter Hospital, is trying to pull another fast one on the City of Davis' senior population. Ta ...

July 05, 2020
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Looking Back: Case Not Handled ‘Righteously’

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|Date: July 05, 2020
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Looking Back: Case Not Handled ‘Righteously’

(Editor’s note: This is the first installment of the new weekly column "Looking Back." "Looking Back" wi ...

(Editor’s note: This is the first installment of the new weekly column "Looking Back." "Looking Back" will feature reprints of articles that Jeffrey Deskovic previously wrote while a columnist at The ...

July 05, 2020
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Guest Commentary: Commutations Are Not the Answer to Life without Parole

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: July 05, 2020
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Guest Commentary: Commutations Are Not the Answer to Life without Parole

(This article was written by my client, Samuel P. Redmond III, who has served twenty years of a life with ...

(This article was written by my client, Samuel P. Redmond III, who has served twenty years of a life without parole sentence. It is published with his express permission.) Posted by Susan Lawrence Twe ...

July 05, 2020
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Letter: People of Color Repressed by a Decision-Making Body

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: July 05, 2020
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Letter: People of Color Repressed by a Decision-Making Body

By Tracy Tomasky Discussions following the school board’s decision to fill Dr. Pickett’s seat exposed man ...

By Tracy Tomasky Discussions following the school board’s decision to fill Dr. Pickett’s seat exposed many deep feelings. As I listen, I grow increasingly frustrated that people of color are again rep ...

July 05, 2020
| by Vanguard Administrator

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With Apologies to Alan Fernandes

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 05, 2020
| (18) Comments

With Apologies to Alan Fernandes

Over the last few days, I have written on numerous occasions that the school board is all-white and have ...

Over the last few days, I have written on numerous occasions that the school board is all-white and have expressed concern about the board being tone deaf on their appointment process. What I did not ...

July 05, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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My View: Is CDCR Executing Incarcerated People at San Quentin by COVID?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 04, 2020
| (12) Comments

My View: Is CDCR Executing Incarcerated People at San Quentin by COVID?

In March of 2019, Governor Gavin Newsom suspended the death penalty in California, arguing at the time, " ...

In March of 2019, Governor Gavin Newsom suspended the death penalty in California, arguing at the time, "Our death penalty system has been—by any measure—a failure." He wrote, "It has provided no publ ...

July 04, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Letter from Faith Community: Trump Administration Attempts to Dramatically Cut Back on Refugees Getting Political Assylum

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: July 04, 2020
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Letter from Faith Community: Trump Administration Attempts to Dramatically Cut Back on Refugees Getting Political Assylum

To Whom It May Concern: As faith leaders in Davis, CA, we strongly oppose the changes in regulations on ...

To Whom It May Concern: As faith leaders in Davis, CA, we strongly oppose the changes in regulations on seeking asylum in the United States being proposed by the Department of Homeland Security and t ...

July 04, 2020
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Commentary: The Innovation Center Moves into a Stronger Position

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 02, 2020
| (26) Comments

Commentary: The Innovation Center Moves into a Stronger Position

Last week it seemed that DISC (Davis Innovation & Sustainability Campus) would probably face a lot st ...

Last week it seemed that DISC (Davis Innovation & Sustainability Campus) would probably face a lot stronger opposition than other recent projects. Now that’s not at all clear. Of the 67 people who ...

July 02, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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BREAKING NEWS: Council Member Arnold Calls for Reimagining Public Safety in Davis

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: June 30, 2020
| (42) Comments

BREAKING NEWS: Council Member Arnold Calls for Reimagining Public Safety in Davis

by Will Arnold My friends, today I am calling for the reimagining, redesign and repurposing of our public ...

by Will Arnold My friends, today I am calling for the reimagining, redesign and repurposing of our public safety system in Davis, including a fundamental transformation of our current structure as we ...

June 30, 2020
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Reisig This Isn’t (Just) About You

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 29, 2020
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Reisig This Isn’t (Just) About You

When Public Defender Tracie Olson pointed out, quite correctly, that in the Yolo County Jail on April 20, ...

When Public Defender Tracie Olson pointed out, quite correctly, that in the Yolo County Jail on April 20, 2020, the population was about 28 percent Black in a county with a population of just 3 percen ...

June 29, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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