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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
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Guest Commentary: Affordable Housing: ‘Income inequality, unaffordable housing, homelessness, are not bugs’

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|Date: June 17, 2019
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Guest Commentary: Affordable Housing: ‘Income inequality, unaffordable housing, homelessness, are not bugs’

(c) By Mark Dempsey Special to the Vanguard Pundits, public policy mavens, and environmentalists are work ...

(c) By Mark Dempsey Special to the Vanguard Pundits, public policy mavens, and environmentalists are working overtime to describe how to make California's housing affordable. Here's the latest from th ...

June 17, 2019
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Linda Fairstein Is Canceled. Is ‘Law & Order’ Culture Next?

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|Date: June 17, 2019
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Linda Fairstein Is Canceled. Is ‘Law & Order’ Culture Next?

By the Appeal “I had stared at death before. I was way too familiar with the vagaries of murder.” So begi ...

By the Appeal “I had stared at death before. I was way too familiar with the vagaries of murder.” So begins “Deadfall,” a novel written by celebrity prosecutor Linda Fairstein. She continues: “I had s ...

June 17, 2019
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Sunday Commentary: Housing Policy as Generational Warfare for Millennials

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 16, 2019
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Sunday Commentary: Housing Policy as Generational Warfare for Millennials

The Atlantic in the past week wrote an article, “Why Housing Policy Feels Like Generational Warfare (To M ...

The Atlantic in the past week wrote an article, “Why Housing Policy Feels Like Generational Warfare (To Millennials, at least).” The theme captures my thinking on local land use wars – the divide bet ...

June 16, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: Introducing the Aggie Research Campus

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|Date: June 16, 2019
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Guest Commentary: Introducing the Aggie Research Campus

by Dan Ramos Several years ago, Ramco Enterprises along with our partners, Buzz Oates and Reynolds & ...

by Dan Ramos Several years ago, Ramco Enterprises along with our partners, Buzz Oates and Reynolds & Brown, submitted a proposal to develop what was then called the Mace Ranch Innovation Center on ...

June 16, 2019
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My View: Housing Insecurity and Homeless Numbers at UCD a Cause for Alarm

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 15, 2019
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My View: Housing Insecurity and Homeless Numbers at UCD a Cause for Alarm

Lost in the shuffle of the new Aggie Research Campus as well as the Paul’s Place homeless discussion are ...

Lost in the shuffle of the new Aggie Research Campus as well as the Paul’s Place homeless discussion are numbers out of the university that remind us why building more student housing was the priority ...

June 15, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Trump Border Czar Will Continue the Administration’s Cruel Border Policies

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|Date: June 15, 2019
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Trump Border Czar Will Continue the Administration’s Cruel Border Policies

By Brian Tashman President Trump announced today that former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) di ...

By Brian Tashman President Trump announced today that former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) director Thomas Homan will return to his administration as “border czar,” a new post he described ...

June 15, 2019
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Commentary: Rebranding MRIC as Aggie Research Campus… with Housing

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 13, 2019
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Commentary: Rebranding MRIC as Aggie Research Campus… with Housing

After five years and a number of false starts, MRIC (Mace Ranch Innovation Center) needed a rebrand, and ...

After five years and a number of false starts, MRIC (Mace Ranch Innovation Center) needed a rebrand, and thus it comes back as Aggie Research Campus which frankly is probably closer to what it really ...

June 13, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Five Years Later… Why We Still Need Economic Development in Davis

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 11, 2019
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Commentary: Five Years Later… Why We Still Need Economic Development in Davis

The year 2013 was the first time I took seriously the notion of large scale economic development in Davis ...

The year 2013 was the first time I took seriously the notion of large scale economic development in Davis. We were coming off the worst recession since the Great Depression and, unlike other downturn ...

June 11, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: Leveraging Core Competencies for Economic Development

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|Date: June 11, 2019
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Guest Commentary: Leveraging Core Competencies for Economic Development

By Matt Williams Note: This article was originally published in May 2016 and has been re-published by req ...

By Matt Williams Note: This article was originally published in May 2016 and has been re-published by request of the author. Successful economic development starts with a strategy that builds on a com ...

June 11, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: What Should the District Do?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 10, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: What Should the District Do?

The school board has a tough call to make. The polling that came back is right in the gray area, as we h ...

The school board has a tough call to make. The polling that came back is right in the gray area, as we have noted in previous commentaries. On the one hand, right now, 65 percent of likely voters in ...

June 10, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Four Cases from SF to Sac Illustrate the State of the Injustice System

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 10, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Four Cases from SF to Sac Illustrate the State of the Injustice System

The Vanguard is now covering cases from San Francisco to Sacramento and we find injustice across the boar ...

The Vanguard is now covering cases from San Francisco to Sacramento and we find injustice across the board. In San Francisco, we have been covering the case of Antonio Carter Bibbs accused of molestin ...

June 10, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: Deputy DA Mount’s Conduct in Court Shows Lack of Objectivity in Dev Case

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 09, 2019
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Sunday Commentary: Deputy DA Mount’s Conduct in Court Shows Lack of Objectivity in Dev Case

At the court on Friday morning as Judge Janene Beronio was deciding when to schedule an evidentiary heari ...

At the court on Friday morning as Judge Janene Beronio was deciding when to schedule an evidentiary hearing in the ten-year-old case of Ajay Dev, who was sentenced ten years ago on 76 counts of rape t ...

June 09, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: Power Outages the New Normal?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 09, 2019
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Sunday Commentary: Power Outages the New Normal?

California Wildfires There we were on Friday evening and suddenly the news is reporting that areas of Yol ...

California Wildfires There we were on Friday evening and suddenly the news is reporting that areas of Yolo County – specifically Winters and Davis – could have the power turned off on Saturday morning ...

June 09, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Harvard Was Wrong to Dismiss Its Dean for Representing Harvey Weinstein

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|Date: June 09, 2019
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Harvard Was Wrong to Dismiss Its Dean for Representing Harvey Weinstein

By David Cole and Carol Rose Last month, Harvard College Dean Rakesh Khurana announced that Ronald Sulliv ...

By David Cole and Carol Rose Last month, Harvard College Dean Rakesh Khurana announced that Ronald Sullivan, a professor in the law school, would no longer serve as faculty dean of Winthrop House, a r ...

June 09, 2019
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My View: Parcel Tax Should Be Pursued, but We Need to Address Other Issues

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 08, 2019
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My View: Parcel Tax Should Be Pursued, but We Need to Address Other Issues

If you look at the polling numbers released by the school district you arrive at a very simple conclusion ...

If you look at the polling numbers released by the school district you arrive at a very simple conclusion – they are where they were a year ago and, given what we are asking, they are considerably low ...

June 08, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Fiscal Caution Is the Right Approach

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 07, 2019
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Commentary: Fiscal Caution Is the Right Approach

When the Vanguard was formed in 2006, one of the problems we cited in city governance was that the fiscal ...

When the Vanguard was formed in 2006, one of the problems we cited in city governance was that the fiscal ramifications of decisions made by council were not properly assessed. The result was that, w ...

June 07, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Alarm Sounded on Face Surveillance-Enabled Body Cameras in California

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: June 07, 2019
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Alarm Sounded on Face Surveillance-Enabled Body Cameras in California

Diverse coalition announces support for AB 1215: The Body Camera Accountability Act (From Press Release)– ...

Diverse coalition announces support for AB 1215: The Body Camera Accountability Act (From Press Release)–Today, the ACLU of California and a diverse coalition of civil rights, racial justice, and digi ...

June 07, 2019
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Guest Commentary: America’s Public Defenders’ Offices Are Broken. Here’s How to Fix Them

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: June 06, 2019
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Guest Commentary: America’s Public Defenders’ Offices Are Broken. Here’s How to Fix Them

By Kamala Harris As a former prosecutor and attorney general of California, I saw our legal system at its ...

By Kamala Harris As a former prosecutor and attorney general of California, I saw our legal system at its best when we pursued justice and stood up for victims of murder, rape, and other serious crime ...

June 06, 2019
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Cautious Council Asks Staff to Return with Additional Information on Broadband

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 05, 2019
| (19) Comments

Cautious Council Asks Staff to Return with Additional Information on Broadband

The Davis City Council is moving forward with interest on the municipal broadband proposal, asking staff ...

The Davis City Council is moving forward with interest on the municipal broadband proposal, asking staff to come back with additional information regarding the financial and technical options. A numbe ...

June 05, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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