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My View: Dunning Attacks District Elections but Ignores Montgomery and Achievement Gap in Doing So

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 29, 2019
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My View: Dunning Attacks District Elections but Ignores Montgomery and Achievement Gap in Doing So

Columnist Bob Dunning continues to lament the school board decision to transition to district elections – ...

Columnist Bob Dunning continues to lament the school board decision to transition to district elections – and while there are certainly aspects of it that deserve questioning, at this point it’s a don ...

June 29, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Immigrants’ Rights Aren’t Possible If We Don’t Stop Criminalizing Border Crossing

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 28, 2019
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Immigrants’ Rights Aren’t Possible If We Don’t Stop Criminalizing Border Crossing

By Ruthie Epstein Last night’s Democratic presidential debate shined an unlikely spotlight on a little-kn ...

By Ruthie Epstein Last night’s Democratic presidential debate shined an unlikely spotlight on a little-known section of the federal code — 8. U.S.C. 1325. This law makes crossing the border without le ...

June 28, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Elizabeth Warren Recognizes Zoning Restrictions as a Barrier to Affordable Housing

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 27, 2019
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Commentary: Elizabeth Warren Recognizes Zoning Restrictions as a Barrier to Affordable Housing

In a newsletter yesterday from liberal NY Times columnist Nicholas Kristoff, he noted, “I started off dee ...

In a newsletter yesterday from liberal NY Times columnist Nicholas Kristoff, he noted, “I started off deeply skeptical of Elizabeth Warren’s candidacy” and admitted he was wrong about her. What caugh ...

June 27, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Children Continue to Die in Government Custody

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|Date: June 25, 2019
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Children Continue to Die in Government Custody

By Cynthia Pompa In recent months, at least seven children have either died in custody or after being det ...

By Cynthia Pompa In recent months, at least seven children have either died in custody or after being detained by federal immigration agencies at the border. These children came to the United States d ...

June 25, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Homelessness Debate – Housing, Mental Illness, Both?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 24, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Homelessness Debate – Housing, Mental Illness, Both?

Last week, citing a number of sources, we argued that the percentage of homeless suffering from mental il ...

Last week, citing a number of sources, we argued that the percentage of homeless suffering from mental illness was only about one-quarter to one-third of the total population. There have been other s ...

June 24, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Why Burgess Owens Pushback on Reparation is Wrong

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 24, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Why Burgess Owens Pushback on Reparation is Wrong

The debate over reparations figures to be divisive. Representative Sheila Jackson Lee is sponsoring HR 40 ...

The debate over reparations figures to be divisive. Representative Sheila Jackson Lee is sponsoring HR 40, which would create a commission to study and develop proposals for slavery reparations. Sena ...

June 24, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Lack of Voter Participation, Not Fraud, Real Problem in California Elections

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|Date: June 24, 2019
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Lack of Voter Participation, Not Fraud, Real Problem in California Elections

By Christina Fletes Every four years when there is a presidential primary, many voters who decline to sta ...

By Christina Fletes Every four years when there is a presidential primary, many voters who decline to state a party preference are surprised when their mail-in ballot arrives and it is missing the pre ...

June 24, 2019
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Sunday Commentary: What Message Should Council Be Sending on the Budget?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 23, 2019
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Sunday Commentary: What Message Should Council Be Sending on the Budget?

We have watched over the years the ebb and flow about the concern of the budget. In fact, the budget dis ...

We have watched over the years the ebb and flow about the concern of the budget. In fact, the budget discourse may be some of the most telling information about the direction coming out of City Hall. ...

June 23, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: Body Cameras Aren’t Having the Impact That Some Expected… But Those People Didn’t Understand Psychology

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 23, 2019
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Sunday Commentary: Body Cameras Aren’t Having the Impact That Some Expected… But Those People Didn’t Understand Psychology

In 1991, an amateur video surfaced of police officers badly beating motorist Rodney King in Los Angeles. ...

In 1991, an amateur video surfaced of police officers badly beating motorist Rodney King in Los Angeles. Much of the nation was shocked to see such a display of wanton brutality – but the reality tha ...

June 23, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: Reparations Not a Symbolic Act, It’s a Path to Restorative Justice

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|Date: June 23, 2019
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Guest Commentary: Reparations Not a Symbolic Act, It’s a Path to Restorative Justice

By Sheila Jackson Lee For nearly three decades, my former colleague Rep. John Conyers of Michigan would i ...

By Sheila Jackson Lee For nearly three decades, my former colleague Rep. John Conyers of Michigan would introduce H.R. 40, legislation seeking to establish a commission to study and develop reparation ...

June 23, 2019
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My View: Addressing Housing Issues at ARC Including the Possibility of Co-Housing Models

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 22, 2019
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My View: Addressing Housing Issues at ARC Including the Possibility of Co-Housing Models

While we still do not have a specific housing proposal, from the Vanguard interview last week with Dan Ra ...

While we still do not have a specific housing proposal, from the Vanguard interview last week with Dan Ramos we have learned a few things about what the housing proposal will and will not have. The in ...

June 22, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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My View: Clarence Thomas Once Again Not Going to Protect Us from Rogue Prosecutors

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 22, 2019
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My View: Clarence Thomas Once Again Not Going to Protect Us from Rogue Prosecutors

In a rare dissent, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas ignored the concerns of his colleagues in the Mi ...

In a rare dissent, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas ignored the concerns of his colleagues in the Mississippi death penalty case against Curtis Flowers, who in 1996 allegedly murdered four people ...

June 22, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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As Trump Tweets Hateful Threats, States are Protecting Immigrant Rights

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|Date: June 22, 2019
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As Trump Tweets Hateful Threats, States are Protecting Immigrant Rights

By Naureen Shah This week, President Trump kicked off his re-election campaign by tweeting a threat to de ...

By Naureen Shah This week, President Trump kicked off his re-election campaign by tweeting a threat to deport millions of immigrants, apparently referring to his administration’s plans for mass raids ...

June 22, 2019
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Lessons from Juneteenth, Our Continued Fight for Freedom

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|Date: June 21, 2019
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Lessons from Juneteenth, Our Continued Fight for Freedom

By Abre' Conner Two and a half years after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, Black ...

By Abre' Conner Two and a half years after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, Black people in Galveston, Texas, were told that they were free. Juneteenth is widely celebrated as “ ...

June 21, 2019
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Commentary: District Elections Coming, Like Them or Not – Here’s Why That Could Be a Good Thing

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 20, 2019
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Commentary: District Elections Coming, Like Them or Not – Here’s Why That Could Be a Good Thing

A certain columnist believes that if Davis citizens had been given a chance to vote on district elections ...

A certain columnist believes that if Davis citizens had been given a chance to vote on district elections for school board they would have rejected it with 80 percent of the vote. While I tend to agr ...

June 20, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Black Boys Aren’t “Wolf Packs” and Abusive Prosecutors Aren’t “Lone Wolves”

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: June 19, 2019
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Black Boys Aren’t “Wolf Packs” and Abusive Prosecutors Aren’t “Lone Wolves”

By Somil Trivedi and Nusrat Choudhury Ava Duvernay’s new miniseries, When They See Us, retells the harrow ...

By Somil Trivedi and Nusrat Choudhury Ava Duvernay’s new miniseries, When They See Us, retells the harrowing story of the five Black and Latinx boys wrongfully imprisoned for the rape and near murder ...

June 19, 2019
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Commentary: Can the Jury Convict on the Word of a Four-Year-Old?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 18, 2019
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Commentary: Can the Jury Convict on the Word of a Four-Year-Old?

The lengthy trial closed on Monday in San Francisco, and both sides agreed on basically one thing – the v ...

The lengthy trial closed on Monday in San Francisco, and both sides agreed on basically one thing – the verdict comes down to whether the jury decides to believe the word of a four-year-old potential ...

June 18, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Mental Illness Is a Factor, but It’s Not the Major Problem in the Homelessness Epidemic

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 18, 2019
| (51) Comments

Commentary: Mental Illness Is a Factor, but It’s Not the Major Problem in the Homelessness Epidemic

Davis is looking to offer things like permanent supportive housing at places like Paul’s Place. As the p ...

Davis is looking to offer things like permanent supportive housing at places like Paul’s Place. As the proposal notes, “DCMH staff will offer each resident on-site supportive services, which includes ...

June 18, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Why Wait for the State on Ethnic Studies?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 18, 2019
| (24) Comments

Commentary: Why Wait for the State on Ethnic Studies?

The school board this week has a letter asking for Senator Connie Leyva and Assemblymember Jose Medina to ...

The school board this week has a letter asking for Senator Connie Leyva and Assemblymember Jose Medina to support AB 331, “which will add a course of ethnic studies to be a high school graduation requ ...

June 18, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Death Penalty, Media Coverage and the Court Watch

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 17, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Death Penalty, Media Coverage and the Court Watch

A friend and reader pointed me over the weekend to a column from Nicholas Kristof entitled, “When We Kill ...

A friend and reader pointed me over the weekend to a column from Nicholas Kristof entitled, “When We Kill.” The author argues, “Everything you think you know about the death penalty is wrong,” and th ...

June 17, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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