While California may have some of strongest gun control laws in the country, gun manufacturers are getting around one of the state's most important assault weapon laws, claims Senator Leland Yee, spon ...

By Senator Lois Wolk Yesterday, Governor Brown and Interior Secretary Salazar committed to the construction of a massive two tunnel project in the Delta, without any certain plan to protect and restor ...

In a sweeping op-ed in Sunday's New York Times, erstwhile climate-change skeptic Richard A. Muller writes, "Three years ago I identified problems in previous climate studies that, in my mind, threw do ...

Last week, a group of Northern California legislators representing the delta counties pushed to halt plans for a 15 billion dollar water conveyance project through the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, un ...

The temperature this week will be pushing, if not passing, 100 degrees in Davis, but in reality we have no right to complain.  While it has been warm at times this summer, we have nothing like the sti ...

We often think politics are contentious here. It is not that they are not contentious, but sometimes we lose perspective that Davis and Yolo County are not nearly as unique as we think they are. Oppon ...

Tuesday this week marked what to many people was a welcomed respite from the summer heat, as a cool rain, more in place for February or March, blanketed the area for hours, dropping close to half an i ...

It was Wednesday around 1:45, I just picked up my nephew from school at Patwin Elementary when I saw something strange up in the sky on the horizon.  As I moved forward, it vanished behind the trees b ...

By  Dan Oney - A bill sponsored by the California Redevelopment Association and League of California Cities, would redesign certain aspects of redevelopment law. SB 286, by Senator Rod Wright, underwe ...

Proposition 18, one of the more contentious issues on the upcoming ballot, has been pushed back to 2012.  Yesterday Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger  signed legislation that would delay the vote until 2 ...

A motion to approve AB 1594 by Assembly Member Alyson Huber died in committee for lack of a second.  Senator Lois Wolk and Assemblymember Mariko Yamada joined a press conference Monday in support of A ...

Last fall when Democrats were crumbling in the face of water bill demands by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, one the Democrats who stood the strongest against potential destruction of the Delta was Se ...

"Historic" Water Deal Puts Yolo and Other Delta Counties in a Bad Position - While the Governor and Democratic Leadership are lauding the water deal as an historic achievement, local leaders such Sena ...

by Shawn Smallwood - It’s easy to forget that Yolo County encompasses a portion of the San Joaquin Delta -- one of the Earth’s great estuaries.  Most of us in Yolo County live in upland areas relative ...

by Dan Aiello - Delta representatives Senator Lois Wolk (D-Woodland) and Assembly member Mariko Yamada (D- Solano), withdrew their authorship and support of S.B. 458 following extensive amendments to ...

It is becoming more and more clear that the path has already been set out to increase water exports out of the Delta.  The Water Conference Committee set up by Senator Darrell Steinberg last week excl ...

The legislature returned this week from their August break by taking up what is undoubtedly the most contentious topic this side of the budget, and perhaps even including the budget, water and what to ...

Daily Democrat Editorial's Criticism of Senator Wolk Unfounded - On July 10, the Woodland Daily Democrat ran an editorial criticizing the efforts of local legislative leadership to address the dangers ...

In 2006 the public was allowed to vote on two measures in Yolo County and there were two counterpart measures in Sacramento County to allow Yolo County residents to discontinue using PG&E as their ...

by Stephen N. Cole, President, El Macero Homeowners Association -Since March 25, 2009, I attended two City sponsored information meetings hosting TANC and three TANC Scoping meetings. The fundamental ...