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Commentary: We Need to Have a Discussion on Economic Development

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 23, 2019
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Commentary: We Need to Have a Discussion on Economic Development

Right now the city of Davis is a community that really sits on the edge. On the one hand is a community o ...

Right now the city of Davis is a community that really sits on the edge. On the one hand is a community of immense promise and potential, sitting on the goldmine of a world class university with a hig ...

August 23, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Will District Elections Enhance NIMBYism?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 21, 2019
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Commentary: Will District Elections Enhance NIMBYism?

The Sacramento Bee ran an article this week on Roseville, Citrus Heights and Davis switching to district ...

The Sacramento Bee ran an article this week on Roseville, Citrus Heights and Davis switching to district elections. In it they have a discussion of Davis’ recent vote and the fact that some believe “ ...

August 21, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: City Gets Critical Additional Grant Money to Fix Richards

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 18, 2019
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Sunday Commentary: City Gets Critical Additional Grant Money to Fix Richards

Last December the city announced it had been awarded $5 million to complete the I-80/Richards Blvd. Inter ...

Last December the city announced it had been awarded $5 million to complete the I-80/Richards Blvd. Interchange Improvement Project. That was expected by the city and naturally good news, as it allow ...

August 18, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Larry Krasner Helped to Defuse an Armed Standoff. Now a Trump Appointee Is Saying Krasner Caused It.

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: August 17, 2019
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Larry Krasner Helped to Defuse an Armed Standoff. Now a Trump Appointee Is Saying Krasner Caused It.

By Sarah Lustbader At 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, while attempting to serve a warrant, Philadelphia police fo ...

By Sarah Lustbader At 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, while attempting to serve a warrant, Philadelphia police found themselves under fire. Six of them were shot, and although none were seriously injured, the ...

August 17, 2019
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Barr is Stuck in the ’90s on Criminal Justice Reform

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: August 16, 2019
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Barr is Stuck in the ’90s on Criminal Justice Reform

By Udi Ofer Almost five years to the day of the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Misso ...

By Udi Ofer Almost five years to the day of the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, Attorney General William Barr descended on New Orleans to deliver a major policy address. ...

August 16, 2019
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Guest Commentary: A No-Holds-Barred Assault on Prosecutors

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: August 15, 2019
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Guest Commentary: A No-Holds-Barred Assault on Prosecutors

Attorney General William Barr pushed back against reforms by progressive prosecutors—but perhaps his grea ...

Attorney General William Barr pushed back against reforms by progressive prosecutors—but perhaps his greatest vitriol was reserved for the Boston DA’s attempt to rein in police. By John Pfaff U.S. Att ...

August 15, 2019
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Commentary: Council Has a Lot of Decisions to Make Tonight

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 13, 2019
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Commentary: Council Has a Lot of Decisions to Make Tonight

The potential change to district elections has probably caught a lot of people in this community off guar ...

The potential change to district elections has probably caught a lot of people in this community off guard. I had always opposed district elections, believing that they weren’t needed and that this c ...

August 13, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Looking at Safe Spaces for People Sleeping in Cars

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 12, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Looking at Safe Spaces for People Sleeping in Cars

There has been legislation that passed in the Assembly and is working its way into the Senate which would ...

There has been legislation that passed in the Assembly and is working its way into the Senate which would allow homeless students who live in their cars to park overnight on campuses. While not a solu ...

August 12, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: Signs That the Housing Crisis is Getting Worse in Northern California

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 11, 2019
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Sunday Commentary: Signs That the Housing Crisis is Getting Worse in Northern California

A PPIC (Public Policy Institute of California) study authored by Marisol Cuellar Mejia and Mary Severance ...

A PPIC (Public Policy Institute of California) study authored by Marisol Cuellar Mejia and Mary Severance, which came out on July 31, found that the first half of the data from 2019 in California “saw ...

August 11, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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A Federal Court Sounds the Alarm on the Privacy Harms of Face Recognition Technology

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: August 10, 2019
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A Federal Court Sounds the Alarm on the Privacy Harms of Face Recognition Technology

By Nathan Freed Wessler On Thursday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit became the first app ...

By Nathan Freed Wessler On Thursday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit became the first appellate court in the nation to directly address the privacy harms posed by face recognition tech ...

August 10, 2019
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Commentary: Documentary Reveals Frustration and Tears of the Homeless Crisis

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: August 07, 2019
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Commentary: Documentary Reveals Frustration and Tears of the Homeless Crisis

By Crystal Rose Sanchez Special to the Vanguard SACRAMENTO – The parcel of land at 5700 Stockton Blvd – t ...

By Crystal Rose Sanchez Special to the Vanguard SACRAMENTO – The parcel of land at 5700 Stockton Blvd – the subject of Part 3 of “Where’s the Housing” - had approximately 200 unhomed long term residen ...

August 07, 2019
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Guest Commentary: Unmasking the Worser Angels

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: August 06, 2019
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Guest Commentary: Unmasking the Worser Angels

by Mark Dempsey In the year 2000 the World Health Organization (WHO) ranked countries’ health care system ...

by Mark Dempsey In the year 2000 the World Health Organization (WHO) ranked countries’ health care system outcomes according to things like life expectancy, infant mortality rates, vaccination rates, ...

August 06, 2019
| by Vanguard Administrator

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California’s Justice System Is a Debt Trap

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: August 06, 2019
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California’s Justice System Is a Debt Trap

By Adrienna Wong Erica Smith was making a fresh start. After being forced out of her home by domestic vio ...

By Adrienna Wong Erica Smith was making a fresh start. After being forced out of her home by domestic violence, she had spent the last three years cycling between homelessness and jail for petty offen ...

August 06, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: A Lot of Unfounded Arguments against District Elections

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 05, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: A Lot of Unfounded Arguments against District Elections

One official from the city told me a few weeks ago that they had thought the school district bowed down t ...

One official from the city told me a few weeks ago that they had thought the school district bowed down too easily on the threat of district elections – until they looked at the statutes and case law ...

August 05, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: Wait, So Redrum Is Closing Anyway?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 04, 2019
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Sunday Commentary: Wait, So Redrum Is Closing Anyway?

In a Facebook post, the owner of Redrum Burger says the restaurant is closing on Sunday, He did not give ...

In a Facebook post, the owner of Redrum Burger says the restaurant is closing on Sunday, He did not give a reason, but owner Jim Edlund thanked devotees of the restaurant for 33 years of business. Th ...

August 04, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: What Are We Going to Do about Right Wing, Domestic Terrorism Manifesting as Gun Violence?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 04, 2019
| (50) Comments

Sunday Commentary: What Are We Going to Do about Right Wing, Domestic Terrorism Manifesting as Gun Violence?

First it was Gilroy. Yesterday it was El Paso and last night Dayton. I am probably going to focus this ...

First it was Gilroy. Yesterday it was El Paso and last night Dayton. I am probably going to focus this more on El Paso at this point. There are lots of angles to this. A lot of tweets in response. ...

August 04, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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My View: Some Disingenuous Arguments Floated in District Election Discussion

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 03, 2019
| (75) Comments

My View: Some Disingenuous Arguments Floated in District Election Discussion

Having run through the math a few weeks ago, I am largely supportive of moving to district elections. Bu ...

Having run through the math a few weeks ago, I am largely supportive of moving to district elections. But I have to say I am a bit troubled that the California Voting Rights Act is written in such a ...

August 03, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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My View: Why Would the Council Not Even Consider a Sales Tax Increase?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 03, 2019
| (12) Comments

My View: Why Would the Council Not Even Consider a Sales Tax Increase?

While the council did not take any action on Tuesday, as Mayor Brett Lee noted, “We are not formally say ...

While the council did not take any action on Tuesday, as Mayor Brett Lee noted, “We are not formally saying anything specific to the language,” nor were they “formally placing anything on the March b ...

August 03, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: New Numbers Offer Different Look at Davis Housing Shortfall

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 02, 2019
| (31) Comments

Commentary: New Numbers Offer Different Look at Davis Housing Shortfall

I was intrigued by data presented in Rich Rifkin’s latest column. One thing that becomes pretty clear is ...

I was intrigued by data presented in Rich Rifkin’s latest column. One thing that becomes pretty clear is that just looking at population or housing growth alone does not tell the whole tale of what i ...

August 02, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Defending Common Decency in Davis

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: August 02, 2019
| (20) Comments

Defending Common Decency in Davis

By Alan Hirsch If you were at City Hall after midnight Tuesday you could see decency in action. I was at ...

By Alan Hirsch If you were at City Hall after midnight Tuesday you could see decency in action. I was at the City Council meeting at 12:20 am. I’m retired, so I had the luxury of staying to speak on a ...

August 02, 2019
| by Vanguard Administrator

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