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Guest Commentary: Reform of Felony Murder Rule Critical To Criminal Justice Reform

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|Date: July 22, 2019
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Guest Commentary: Reform of Felony Murder Rule Critical To Criminal Justice Reform

By Nancy Skinner and Joel Anderson In January, California ended a decades-old legal doctrine that put num ...

By Nancy Skinner and Joel Anderson In January, California ended a decades-old legal doctrine that put numerous people behind bars for murders they did not commit. Yet six months after the new state la ...

July 22, 2019
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Sunday Commentary: What If They Violate the Rights of Someone Who Clearly Did It?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 21, 2019
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Sunday Commentary: What If They Violate the Rights of Someone Who Clearly Did It?

In this country, we are supposed to protect the rights of the accused, not only because we have the presu ...

In this country, we are supposed to protect the rights of the accused, not only because we have the presumption of innocence until proven guilty – at least in theory. And if we end up tossing the cha ...

July 21, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: Trump Using Hot Buttons to Attempt Reelection

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 21, 2019
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Sunday Commentary: Trump Using Hot Buttons to Attempt Reelection

Following the president’s tweet attacks on four liberal Democratic women of color and the backlash agains ...

Following the president’s tweet attacks on four liberal Democratic women of color and the backlash against the crowd chanting “Send her back,” which caused the president at least some consternation, t ...

July 21, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Should DC Residents Get the Benefits of Full Citizenship?

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|Date: July 21, 2019
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Should DC Residents Get the Benefits of Full Citizenship?

By Monica Hopkins Five years ago, I left the state of Idaho to become a resident of Washington, D.C. I no ...

By Monica Hopkins Five years ago, I left the state of Idaho to become a resident of Washington, D.C. I now live in a vibrant community with people who work hard, not just as federal workers but also a ...

July 21, 2019
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My View: Addressing Housing, Jobs and Traffic is the Next Challenge For the City

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 20, 2019
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My View: Addressing Housing, Jobs and Traffic is the Next Challenge For the City

One of the big questions is going to be for the next election cycle – just how big a driver is traffic co ...

One of the big questions is going to be for the next election cycle – just how big a driver is traffic concerns. If we look at the survey results, the percentage of those polled who saw traffic as th ...

July 20, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Do We Need an Additional Traffic Study on Mace?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 19, 2019
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Commentary: Do We Need an Additional Traffic Study on Mace?

Most of Alan Pryor’s guest commentary deals with the current conditions on Mace and the need to study tra ...

Most of Alan Pryor’s guest commentary deals with the current conditions on Mace and the need to study traffic prior to making changes on Mace – but he also points to the 800-pound gorilla as being the ...

July 19, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: We Need Economic Development While Addressing Income Inequality Regionally

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 18, 2019
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Commentary: We Need Economic Development While Addressing Income Inequality Regionally

When I first started looking into the prospects for economic development, there were several key factors ...

When I first started looking into the prospects for economic development, there were several key factors that attracted me to it as a way to address the city’s revenue generation problems. As a unive ...

July 18, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: New Mace Blvd Traffic Study Needed Before Making any More Changes

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|Date: July 18, 2019
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Guest Commentary: New Mace Blvd Traffic Study Needed Before Making any More Changes

by Alan Pryor The City is in the midst of trying to formulate a plan to alleviate traffic congestion alon ...

by Alan Pryor The City is in the midst of trying to formulate a plan to alleviate traffic congestion along the Mace Blvd. corridor. Following are excerpts from the Staff Report presented to the Bicycl ...

July 18, 2019
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Commentary: Racism, Extremism, and Policing

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 16, 2019
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Commentary: Racism, Extremism, and Policing

It was only a few years ago when the San Francisco Police Department was embroiled in a scandal – a numbe ...

It was only a few years ago when the San Francisco Police Department was embroiled in a scandal – a number of officers got caught up sending not only racist jokes, but making derogatory statements abo ...

July 16, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: Sacramento Region Excels at Fostering Poverty and Economic Disparities

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|Date: July 16, 2019
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Guest Commentary: Sacramento Region Excels at Fostering Poverty and Economic Disparities

By Michael Bisch As the Executive Director of Yolo Food Bank, I read with interest the Vanguard’s recent ...

By Michael Bisch As the Executive Director of Yolo Food Bank, I read with interest the Vanguard’s recent commentary on “Sacramento’s surprising rank on a new list of best cities for startup companies” ...

July 16, 2019
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Guest Commentary: Moving Forward on the Rental Resources Ordinance

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|Date: July 16, 2019
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Guest Commentary: Moving Forward on the Rental Resources Ordinance

By Dillan Horton In early June, as the city was finalizing its annual budget I asked the current city cou ...

By Dillan Horton In early June, as the city was finalizing its annual budget I asked the current city council to consider allocating more resources for the Rental Resources Ordinance. I’ve heard so ma ...

July 16, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Housing Pressure on Davis About to Ramp Up

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 15, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Housing Pressure on Davis About to Ramp Up

Consider this a trigger warning – if you don’t like speculation, you probably won’t like this column. Th ...

Consider this a trigger warning – if you don’t like speculation, you probably won’t like this column. The state as we know is feeling the pressure of housing shortages. A reader on Sunday noted that ...

July 15, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Trump Administration Proposes Another Form of Family Separation

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|Date: July 15, 2019
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Trump Administration Proposes Another Form of Family Separation

By Mollie Cueva-Dabkoski and Linda Morris The world has watched in horror as migrant families have been f ...

By Mollie Cueva-Dabkoski and Linda Morris The world has watched in horror as migrant families have been forcibly separated, placed into camps, and subjected to the cruel conditions of detention, as pa ...

July 15, 2019
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Guest Commentary: Zoning: Planning, Suggestion, or Baloney?

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|Date: July 13, 2019
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Guest Commentary: Zoning: Planning, Suggestion, or Baloney?

by Mark Dempsey California's recent housing affordability crisis leads to some conversations about zoning ...

by Mark Dempsey California's recent housing affordability crisis leads to some conversations about zoning and NIMBYism (see the Davis Vanguard's The Expansion of NYMBYISM into Zoning). But looking for ...

July 13, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Did the Trial Attorney Err in Brian Banks, Having Him Take a Plea?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 08, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Did the Trial Attorney Err in Brian Banks, Having Him Take a Plea?

In 2012, Brian Banks made national news because at one point he was a top rated football recruit out of a ...

In 2012, Brian Banks made national news because at one point he was a top rated football recruit out of a prestigious high school program in Long Beach. He committed to playing football at USC, but h ...

July 08, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: Blue America Pushes Back on Immigration This Week

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 07, 2019
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Sunday Commentary: Blue America Pushes Back on Immigration This Week

There are a lot of different aspects to the current immigration issue in this county. For a long time the ...

There are a lot of different aspects to the current immigration issue in this county. For a long time the immigration issue has boiled largely on one side of the spectrum. And while we can look at pol ...

July 07, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: The Expansion of NIMBYISM into Zoning

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 07, 2019
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Sunday Commentary: The Expansion of NIMBYISM into Zoning

A reader pointed us back to a 2018 commentary from the New York Times, “How ‘Not in My Backyard’ Became ‘ ...

A reader pointed us back to a 2018 commentary from the New York Times, “How ‘Not in My Backyard’ Became ‘Not in My Neighborhood’,” in which Emily Badger notes, “The expectation that homeowners should ...

July 07, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Housing’s Impact on the Economy

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 05, 2019
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Commentary: Housing’s Impact on the Economy

In recent weeks we have had discussions on whether the proposed ARC (Aggie Research Campus) needs housing ...

In recent weeks we have had discussions on whether the proposed ARC (Aggie Research Campus) needs housing or not. In those discussions, we have cited industry leaders who have pointed out that prospe ...

July 05, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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After Spending 16 Months in Solitary Confinement, Fighting to End It

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|Date: July 04, 2019
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After Spending 16 Months in Solitary Confinement, Fighting to End It

By Kiana Calloway I was just 17 years old when I was sent to solitary confinement in “Camp J,” one of the ...

By Kiana Calloway I was just 17 years old when I was sent to solitary confinement in “Camp J,” one of the most severe lockdown units at one of America’s most brutal prisons, the Louisiana State Penite ...

July 04, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: City Fiscal Picture More Fixable than Schools

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 01, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: City Fiscal Picture More Fixable than Schools

Yesterday’s Sunday Commentary breaks down the school district’s long term fiscal picture – and based on t ...

Yesterday’s Sunday Commentary breaks down the school district’s long term fiscal picture – and based on that I conclude that, long term, we are in trouble trying to resolve the school district’s finan ...

July 01, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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