Every week, I use this space and time on Sunday to highlight a critical issue facing our community.  This past week was a strange week with an odd combination of occurrences, Spring Break at UC Davis, ...

How Much Will This Victory Cost the GOP Down the Line is the Key Question - A few weeks back, early on in the process in Wisconsin, I suggested that Republicans should be thankful that 14 Democratic S ...

Signs around country continue to show that Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's contentious bill that would eliminate collective bargaining in most cases for public employees has done precisely what we s ...

Wisconsin is emerging as the political fault line that might decide the outcome of the 2012 elections.  In a lot of ways, Governor Walker has miscalculated, as we have written, mobilizing groups of pe ...

The headline in the Woodland Daily Democrat's AP story was misleadingly labeled, "Collective bargaining for state workers in jeopardy."  In reality, the story was about a Republican State Assemblymemb ...

The brewing political fight in Wisconsin gives us a chance to hit the pause button and the recognize how changes need to be made.  I have been a strong proponent of fiscal responsibility within the Ci ...

Every so often a letter to the editor comes along that so perfectly illustrates a point.  I found one in the Daily Democrat from Tuesday entitled, "Liberal Press Doesn't Understand Tea Party."  This o ...

When the city of Davis decided to seek a new source of revenue, it tapped Target as a goal.  Never mind that Target had almost as bad a labor reputation as Wal Mart.  Never mind that they had been cit ...

With the case of the City of Bell's pay for their city manager, assistant and police chief making headlines across the state and even nationally, State Controller John Chiang Tuesday announced new rep ...

When the issue of the City of Bell first arose, it drew me in because, while the magnitude of the problem in Bell is far greater perhaps than elsewhere, it embodied a number of problems that every loc ...

City of Bell Becomes Poster Child For the Corruption of Public Employee Salaries - When we first covered the fiasco of the city of Bell, it appeared that the city staffers were being defended by their ...

by Justin Smith Labor unions have been working on resurrecting a controversial bill in an eleventh hour maneuver in Sacramento over the weekend.Assembly Bill 155 (Mendoza) would authorize the Californ ...

by Cecilia Escamilla-Greenwald David and I had plans for a Saturday night date.  We've both been so busy that we thought it would be nice to have dinner and watch a movie at home.  David has been so b ...

Democratic leaders and Governor Schwarzenegger had agreed to a sweeping prison reform bill that would have reduced California's inmate population by 27,000.  However, last week, Assemblymembers balked ...

by Jack Zwald - While moving back in with mom and dad may be mortifying, the real killer is that recent graduates may no longer have their healthcare covered by their parents or at low cost through th ...

As I often do, I was scanning through articles this morning trying to get a sense of what is going on not only here in Davis and Yolo County, but across the region.  One thing that caught my eye was t ...

Davis City Council Passes Resolution in Support of Employee Free Choice Act On Tuesday on the North Steps of the Capitol, a crowd exceeding 500 people and probably approaching 1000 people gathered in ...

Sac. Region In an event sponsored by Moveon.org and organized in every Congressional District, a group of 25 local residents met with Ellie Fairclough from Congressman Mike Thompson's office to urge h ...

Some have openly wondered why the sudden focus on the salaries of public employees in both Davis as well as in the county. In truth, it is a combination of factors that stem from the alarm of what hap ...

Occasionally, an issue comes before Congress that is so clearly aligned with American values that Members across the political spectrum come together to support a solution. Giving uninsured children a ...