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My View: Some People Are Angry, but Anger Is Useless Unless the Energy Is Channeled

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 25, 2022
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My View: Some People Are Angry, but Anger Is Useless Unless the Energy Is Channeled

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor I must admit, I found myself in a bit of delight that Senators Sus ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor I must admit, I found myself in a bit of delight that Senators Susan Collins and Joe Manchin felt that they had been deceived on a couple of the recent appointee ...

June 25, 2022
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83 DAs and AGs Publicly Pledge to Use Their Settled Discretion and Not Criminalize Personal Healthcare Decisions

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|Date: June 25, 2022
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83 DAs and AGs Publicly Pledge to Use Their Settled Discretion and Not Criminalize Personal Healthcare Decisions

Special to the Vanguard In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, 83 elected p ...

Special to the Vanguard In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, 83 elected prosecutors from around the nation committed to use their well-established discretion and refuse ...

June 25, 2022
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Commentary: Will Davis Really Be *Fine* without Serious Changes?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 24, 2022
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Commentary: Will Davis Really Be *Fine* without Serious Changes?

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – In February, the San Francisco voters ousted three sch ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – In February, the San Francisco voters ousted three school board members, who were seen as too focused on issues like racial justice. But several mon ...

June 24, 2022
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Guest Commentary: Alameda DA Candidate Pamela Price Blasts SCOTUS Rulings

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|Date: June 24, 2022
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Guest Commentary: Alameda DA Candidate Pamela Price Blasts SCOTUS Rulings

By Pamela Price The Supreme Court conservative majority advanced its assault on civil rights and all the ...

By Pamela Price The Supreme Court conservative majority advanced its assault on civil rights and all the reform and progress we have achieved over the last few decades. In a far-reaching 6-3 ruling on ...

June 24, 2022
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Guest Commentary: Supreme Court Ruling Rejects the Promise of Miranda Rights

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|Date: June 24, 2022
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Guest Commentary: Supreme Court Ruling Rejects the Promise of Miranda Rights

While the decision in Vega v. Tekoh doesn’t reduce the obligation of police to issue Miranda warnings, it ...

While the decision in Vega v. Tekoh doesn’t reduce the obligation of police to issue Miranda warnings, it eliminates a critical avenue for justice. By Brett Max Kaufman For more than half a century, n ...

June 24, 2022
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Commentary: Skepticism That Things Are Doable in Davis

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 23, 2022
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Commentary: Skepticism That Things Are Doable in Davis

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA - I was asked by a couple of readers to publish the foll ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA - I was asked by a couple of readers to publish the following which had been part of our “Opening Thoughts” in yesterday’s morning newsletter. For tho ...

June 23, 2022
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Guest Commentary: Questions for the Yolo Food Bank Board of Directors

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|Date: June 23, 2022
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Guest Commentary: Questions for the Yolo Food Bank Board of Directors

by Andrew Newman I am in receipt of a communication from the Yolo Food Bank (YFB) Board of Directors date ...

by Andrew Newman I am in receipt of a communication from the Yolo Food Bank (YFB) Board of Directors dated June 17, 2022 (see letter further below). The letter was sent to me presumably because I am a ...

June 23, 2022
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Guest Commentary: Confronting the Tragic Legacy of Forced Boarding

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 23, 2022
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Guest Commentary: Confronting the Tragic Legacy of Forced Boarding

By Theodora Simon In May 2022, the United States Department of the Interior released Volume 1 of the Fede ...

By Theodora Simon In May 2022, the United States Department of the Interior released Volume 1 of the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Report, investigating the centuries-long project that for ...

June 23, 2022
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Commentary: Could AB 2011 Solve California’s Labor Objections to Housing?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 22, 2022
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Commentary: Could AB 2011 Solve California’s Labor Objections to Housing?

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Sacramento, CA – AB 2011 sponsored by Assemblymember Buffy Wicks a ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Sacramento, CA – AB 2011 sponsored by Assemblymember Buffy Wicks attempts to streamline the production of much-needed affordable housing while reaching a labor a ...

June 22, 2022
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Commentary: Why San Francisco May Not Be the Best Test Case for Progressivism

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 21, 2022
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Commentary: Why San Francisco May Not Be the Best Test Case for Progressivism

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Los Angeles, CA – There were a lot of bad media takes coming out o ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Los Angeles, CA – There were a lot of bad media takes coming out of the primary election two weeks ago—and a lot of them were due to a rush to judgment because t ...

June 21, 2022
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Guest Commentary: Measure H Versus Measure B Voting Patterns

Posted by Matt Williams
|Date: June 21, 2022
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Guest Commentary: Measure H Versus Measure B Voting Patterns

What happened? Drilling down into the Measure H and Measure B election data by Matt Williams Precincts T ...

What happened? Drilling down into the Measure H and Measure B election data by Matt Williams Precincts To get to an apples to apples comparison of the results of Measure H and Measure B, one has to s ...

June 21, 2022
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Guest Commentary: Civilized Californians Will Continue Anti-Capital Punishment Fight

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 21, 2022
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Guest Commentary: Civilized Californians Will Continue Anti-Capital Punishment Fight

By Stephen Cooper The biggest lie about Proposition 66, California’s poorly drafted new death penalty law ...

By Stephen Cooper The biggest lie about Proposition 66, California’s poorly drafted new death penalty law — only missing another “6” in numbering to be properly identified as the devil’s spawn — is sp ...

June 21, 2022
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Davis Needs to Solve This Problem Next – Which One Though?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 20, 2022
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Davis Needs to Solve This Problem Next – Which One Though?

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – One of the commenters made an interesting point by ask ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – One of the commenters made an interesting point by asking what “problem” is supposed to be actually solved. That got me thinking that one of the rea ...

June 20, 2022
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Here We Go Again – This Time in LA

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 20, 2022
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Here We Go Again – This Time in LA

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Los Angeles, CA - Stop me if you’ve heard this one before—someone ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Los Angeles, CA - Stop me if you’ve heard this one before—someone released early, committed a new and bad crime and it’s the fault of the DA and his reform effor ...

June 20, 2022
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Sunday Commentary: January 6 Hearings Prove Trump Really Was Trying to Overturn an Election

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 19, 2022
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Sunday Commentary: January 6 Hearings Prove Trump Really Was Trying to Overturn an Election

By David M. Greenwald Washington, DC - We now pretty much know what we thought we knew before. Donald Tru ...

By David M. Greenwald Washington, DC - We now pretty much know what we thought we knew before. Donald Trump knew he lost, his advisors knew he lost, they all knew that the notion of massive voter frau ...

June 19, 2022
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Sunday Commentary: DA Reisig Has Turned the Dev Case into a Political Football – That’s Unfortunate

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 19, 2022
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Sunday Commentary: DA Reisig Has Turned the Dev Case into a Political Football – That’s Unfortunate

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Woodland, CA – A few weeks ago, Ajay Dev’s attorney, Jennifer Mouz ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Woodland, CA – A few weeks ago, Ajay Dev’s attorney, Jennifer Mouzis, was ill and had to postpone a hearing. The petitioners asked for and were granted a contin ...

June 19, 2022
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Guest Commentary: Systemic Problem – Crime (U.S. Police Spend Nearly Double What Russia Spends on Its Military)

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|Date: June 19, 2022
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Guest Commentary: Systemic Problem – Crime (U.S. Police Spend Nearly Double What Russia Spends on Its Military)

By Mark Dempsey "The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike sleeping under bridges, ...

By Mark Dempsey "The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike sleeping under bridges, begging in the streets, and stealing their bread.” - Anatole France A recent opinion piece in t ...

June 19, 2022
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Guest Commentary: The Liberating Truth about Juneteenth

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|Date: June 19, 2022
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Guest Commentary: The Liberating Truth about Juneteenth

As we celebrate Juneteenth, let’s remember exactly what we are celebrating, and why. By Yasmin Cader When ...

As we celebrate Juneteenth, let’s remember exactly what we are celebrating, and why. By Yasmin Cader When my first born started kindergarten, I learned American enslavement was on the curriculum that ...

June 19, 2022
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Looking Back: United States Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor – Part 1

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|Date: June 19, 2022
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Looking Back: United States Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor – Part 1

Jeffrey Deskovic Speaking in Davis in 2019 at the Annual Vanguard Event by Jeffrey Deskovic "Looking ba ...

Jeffrey Deskovic Speaking in Davis in 2019 at the Annual Vanguard Event by Jeffrey Deskovic "Looking back" will feature reprints of articles that Jeff previously wrote while a columnist at The Westc ...

June 19, 2022
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My View: DiSC Failed, Now What?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 18, 2022
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My View: DiSC Failed, Now What?

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – DiSC failed for a second time last week and, while the ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – DiSC failed for a second time last week and, while the numbers aren’t all in, there is no way the outcome is changing. Here’s the thing—"no" is not ...

June 18, 2022
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