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Monday Morning Thoughts: Science Will Have to Get Us out of this COVID-19 Mess

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 06, 2020
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Science Will Have to Get Us out of this COVID-19 Mess

From the start the battle lines over COVID-19 have taken the shape of the political contours of the count ...

From the start the battle lines over COVID-19 have taken the shape of the political contours of the country. Left versus right. Urban versus rural. But in a lot of ways this has been the extension ...

April 06, 2020
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Tulare DA Pushes Back against Governor Commutation

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 06, 2020
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Tulare DA Pushes Back against Governor Commutation

Tulare DA Tim Ward is the Secretary-Treasurer of the conservative California District Attorneys Associati ...

Tulare DA Tim Ward is the Secretary-Treasurer of the conservative California District Attorneys Association. A little over a week ago, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced he was granting 5 par ...

April 06, 2020
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Sunday Commentary: Dunning Starts to Weigh in on Aggie Research Campus

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 05, 2020
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Sunday Commentary: Dunning Starts to Weigh in on Aggie Research Campus

It is interesting—and frankly kind of nice—to see that Bob Dunning on Friday and Sunday this week has wad ...

It is interesting—and frankly kind of nice—to see that Bob Dunning on Friday and Sunday this week has waded into the issue of Aggie Research Campus. This coming week’s council meeting deals almost ex ...

April 05, 2020
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Sunday Commentary: California Has Led the Way on the Response to COVID-19

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 05, 2020
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Sunday Commentary: California Has Led the Way on the Response to COVID-19

California so far has avoided the fate of Italy, Spain and New York. Why? Social distancing and aggress ...

California so far has avoided the fate of Italy, Spain and New York. Why? Social distancing and aggressive stay-at-home orders. Three weeks ago, California counties stunned, really the world, by ord ...

April 05, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: Voices Warning Trump about COVID-19 in Prisons Are Growing Louder

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: April 04, 2020
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Guest Commentary: Voices Warning Trump about COVID-19 in Prisons Are Growing Louder

There are no good reasons for the president to keep vulnerable people behind bars any longer. By Jay Will ...

There are no good reasons for the president to keep vulnerable people behind bars any longer. By Jay Willis In the weeks before the United States became the global leader in confirmed cases of COVID-1 ...

April 04, 2020
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Sunday Commentary: Failures Have Exacerbated the COVID-19 Crisis

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 29, 2020
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Sunday Commentary: Failures Have Exacerbated the COVID-19 Crisis

It is unfair to lay all of the blame on Trump for some of the problems that have arisen in the last month ...

It is unfair to lay all of the blame on Trump for some of the problems that have arisen in the last month, but with a more aggressive and proactive approach in January and February, we would probably ...

March 29, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: Measure G Is a Reminder That We Need to Count All of the Votes

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 29, 2020
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Sunday Commentary: Measure G Is a Reminder That We Need to Count All of the Votes

Publicly many were putting on a brave face—we need to count all of the votes. Privately, however, most c ...

Publicly many were putting on a brave face—we need to count all of the votes. Privately, however, most conceded what we believed—Measure G, the parcel tax that would add $3 million for teacher compen ...

March 29, 2020
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My View: Discrimination Incidents Rise Against Asian Americans Due to COVID-19 Outbreak

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 28, 2020
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My View: Discrimination Incidents Rise Against Asian Americans Due to COVID-19 Outbreak

There have been debates all over the internet as to why it was inadvisable for President Trump to refer t ...

There have been debates all over the internet as to why it was inadvisable for President Trump to refer to coronavirus as “Chinese” or “Wuhan” virus. On Thursday, the President told a briefing he woul ...

March 28, 2020
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My View: Early Indications Suggest Crime Is Falling Despite Releases and Changes to Charging Low Level Offenses during COVID-19

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 28, 2020
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My View: Early Indications Suggest Crime Is Falling Despite Releases and Changes to Charging Low Level Offenses during COVID-19

The criminal justice reform movement is worried about the consequences of the COVID-19 outbreak hitting t ...

The criminal justice reform movement is worried about the consequences of the COVID-19 outbreak hitting the prisons and jails. The results have been slow—in places like New Jersey, at least 1000 peop ...

March 28, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: Public Health Doctor and Head of Corrections Both Believe People Must Be Released from Jails and Prisons

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: March 28, 2020
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Guest Commentary: Public Health Doctor and Head of Corrections Both Believe People Must Be Released from Jails and Prisons

Decisive action by governors and the President now can save lives -- of incarcerated people, correctional ...

Decisive action by governors and the President now can save lives -- of incarcerated people, correctional and medical personnel, and nearby community members. Business as usual will not. By Brie Willi ...

March 28, 2020
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Commentary: A Debate Based on False Hope

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 27, 2020
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Commentary: A Debate Based on False Hope

President Trump this week tried to make the case that we should reopen the country for business by Easter ...

President Trump this week tried to make the case that we should reopen the country for business by Easter. Experts of course were alarmed by this idea, and it probably won’t happen. But behind it is ...

March 27, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: Council Risks Squandering SB1 Gas Tax Monies on ‘Nice-to-Have’ Neighborhood Street Projects

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: March 27, 2020
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Guest Commentary: Council Risks Squandering SB1 Gas Tax Monies on ‘Nice-to-Have’ Neighborhood Street Projects

Meanwhile our Major Arterial Roadways Deteriorate into 3rd-World Condition by Alan Pryor The following em ...

Meanwhile our Major Arterial Roadways Deteriorate into 3rd-World Condition by Alan Pryor The following email was sent to the Davis City Council prior to last Tuesday's Council tele-meeting requesting ...

March 27, 2020
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Should the Pandemic and Coming Recession Mean the End of Planning as Usual Locally?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 23, 2020
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Should the Pandemic and Coming Recession Mean the End of Planning as Usual Locally?

For the first time in over a decade, we are headed for a recession. We have seen nationally just how bad ...

For the first time in over a decade, we are headed for a recession. We have seen nationally just how bad it figures to be, watching the stock market lose one-third of its value in a few weeks—wiping ...

March 23, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Yolo’s First Death as the Crisis Worsens

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 23, 2020
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Yolo’s First Death as the Crisis Worsens

The first death in Yolo County occurred yesterday—the county per policy is not releasing a whole lot of i ...

The first death in Yolo County occurred yesterday—the county per policy is not releasing a whole lot of information, but we do know that the fatality occurred “in an older adult with underlying chroni ...

March 23, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: We Have Time to Put All-Mail Ballot in Place for November

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 22, 2020
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Sunday Commentary: We Have Time to Put All-Mail Ballot in Place for November

Last week several states went to the polls, but with reduced voting turnout—and five other states have po ...

Last week several states went to the polls, but with reduced voting turnout—and five other states have postponed their elections until June. The reality is that, while the November election seems lik ...

March 22, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: Locally People Are Complying, but the Bigger Picture Is Grim

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 22, 2020
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Sunday Commentary: Locally People Are Complying, but the Bigger Picture Is Grim

While a place like Davis has registered a good amount of compliance with stay-at-home orders, a tweet fro ...

While a place like Davis has registered a good amount of compliance with stay-at-home orders, a tweet from the Marin County Sheriff showed many attempting to take advantage of their time to go see the ...

March 22, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: Boots on the Ground

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: March 20, 2020
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Guest Commentary: Boots on the Ground

By Melissa Marshall, MD As our community shelters in place, I would like to publicly commend our healthca ...

By Melissa Marshall, MD As our community shelters in place, I would like to publicly commend our healthcare workers for their tireless dedication in these trying times. At CommuniCare Health Centers, ...

March 20, 2020
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Commentary: Will We Ever Recover?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 19, 2020
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Commentary: Will We Ever Recover?

If you walked around town yesterday, it felt like the dead of winter, the heart of Christmas vacation—not ...

If you walked around town yesterday, it felt like the dead of winter, the heart of Christmas vacation—not just the overall climate, but even the weather. No one was around. Parking was plentiful. B ...

March 19, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Police, Prosecutors, Sheriffs, Parole Officers, and Governors can Help Stop the Spread of COVID-19

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 19, 2020
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Police, Prosecutors, Sheriffs, Parole Officers, and Governors can Help Stop the Spread of COVID-19

Public health experts have encouraged stakeholders in the criminal legal system to minimize the number of ...

Public health experts have encouraged stakeholders in the criminal legal system to minimize the number of people entering the system in the first place, while also releasing individuals in prisons and ...

March 19, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: Weinstein Verdict: Restorative Justice Is Needed to Empower Victims

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: March 18, 2020
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Guest Commentary: Weinstein Verdict: Restorative Justice Is Needed to Empower Victims

By Lisa M. Rea and Ailbhe Griffith Most of us were not in the courtroom during the testimony of a multitu ...

By Lisa M. Rea and Ailbhe Griffith Most of us were not in the courtroom during the testimony of a multitude of women who came forward to accuse Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault and sexual misconduct ...

March 18, 2020
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