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Assemblymember Discusses Affordable Housing and the Prospects for New RDA Funding

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 17, 2019
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Assemblymember Discusses Affordable Housing and the Prospects for New RDA Funding

In December, Assemblymember David Chiu introduced AB 11, which would “allow cities and counties to create ...

In December, Assemblymember David Chiu introduced AB 11, which would “allow cities and counties to create agencies that would use tax increment financing to fund affordable housing and infrastructure ...

January 17, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Governor Newsom Does Not Propose New RDA

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 14, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Governor Newsom Does Not Propose New RDA

Analysts have called the proposals for affordable housing a “big deal,” but while the governor proposed a ...

Analysts have called the proposals for affordable housing a “big deal,” but while the governor proposed a lot, he stopped short of the one tool that would generate ongoing money for affordable housing ...

January 14, 2019
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Governor Newsom to Take On the Housing Crisis

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 12, 2019
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Governor Newsom to Take On the Housing Crisis

This week Governor Newsom put his housing priority into his budget with proposals for sweeping changes wh ...

This week Governor Newsom put his housing priority into his budget with proposals for sweeping changes which would include $750 million for local governments for housing – a figure that includes $250 ...

January 12, 2019
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My View: Local Disappointments Aside, Governor Brown Diversified the Judicial Bench

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 05, 2019
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My View: Local Disappointments Aside, Governor Brown Diversified the Judicial Bench

In the waning days of Governor Jerry Brown’s tenure as Governor, he disappointed some local residents wit ...

In the waning days of Governor Jerry Brown’s tenure as Governor, he disappointed some local residents with his appointments to the Yolo County Bench that lacked diversity. However, on the whole ...

January 05, 2019
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Use of Force and Police Stops in 2017

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 03, 2019
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Use of Force and Police Stops in 2017

Second Annual Report from California’s Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory Board Illustrates Use of Fo ...

Second Annual Report from California’s Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory Board Illustrates Use of Force and Racial Profiling in 2017 California’s Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory (RIPA) Boa ...

January 03, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Supreme Court Denies Effort to Block Access to Police Records

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 03, 2019
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Supreme Court Denies Effort to Block Access to Police Records

In a one-sentence ruling the California Supreme Court denied the efforts by police unions to gut or bloc ...

In a one-sentence ruling the California Supreme Court denied the efforts by police unions to gut or block the landmark police transparency law (SB 1421) attempting to apply the law only to records cr ...

January 03, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Is Criminal Charges Against PG&E the Way to Go?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 01, 2019
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Commentary: Is Criminal Charges Against PG&E the Way to Go?

A US District Judge, William Alsup, has ordered PG&E to determine if it played any role in the deadly ...

A US District Judge, William Alsup, has ordered PG&E to determine if it played any role in the deadly Camp Fire – which killed 88 people and destroyed nearly 14,000 homes, nearly completely destro ...

January 01, 2019
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First Amendment and Media Coalition Opposes Effort to Gut Police Transparency Law

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 29, 2018
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First Amendment and Media Coalition Opposes Effort to Gut Police Transparency Law

A coalition of media groups led by the First Amendment Coalition (FAC) today filed briefing in the Califo ...

A coalition of media groups led by the First Amendment Coalition (FAC) today filed briefing in the California Supreme Court to oppose a police union’s effort to undermine the effectiveness of a new, l ...

December 29, 2018
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Data Gives Us a Clear Picture of the Future of California

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 24, 2018
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Data Gives Us a Clear Picture of the Future of California

The right has attempted to paint a picture of California as a state where the affluent are leaving, and t ...

The right has attempted to paint a picture of California as a state where the affluent are leaving, and the ones left behind are poor and on public assistance. But the right has not dug into the data ...

December 24, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts, Part II – Resistance Standing in the Way of Prosperity

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 24, 2018
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Monday Morning Thoughts, Part II – Resistance Standing in the Way of Prosperity

In the Chronicle this week, Joe Mathews writes: “Resistance to development stands in way of prosperity.” ...

In the Chronicle this week, Joe Mathews writes: “Resistance to development stands in way of prosperity.” He argues that, as a New Year’s resolution, the “best thing you could do is swear off this phr ...

December 24, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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State Superintendent Elect Speaks Before DJUSD Board

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 22, 2018
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State Superintendent Elect Speaks Before DJUSD Board

Tony Thurmond won a narrow, hard fought victory in November and will be sworn in shortly as the new State ...

Tony Thurmond won a narrow, hard fought victory in November and will be sworn in shortly as the new State Superintendent of Public Instruction. On Thursday, he came to Davis to swear in Tom Adams, wh ...

December 22, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Housing, Poverty and the Economy

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 18, 2018
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Commentary: Housing, Poverty and the Economy

The census figures from 2017 showed that when the cost of living, specifically housing, was factored in, ...

The census figures from 2017 showed that when the cost of living, specifically housing, was factored in, California has the highest poverty rate in the nation with more than 20 percent of its resident ...

December 18, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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PPIC Report Finds Arrest Rates Plummet to Historic Lows in California

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 07, 2018
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PPIC Report Finds Arrest Rates Plummet to Historic Lows in California

While Disparities Have Narrowed, Large Gaps Remain Between African Americans and Whites Crime and policin ...

While Disparities Have Narrowed, Large Gaps Remain Between African Americans and Whites Crime and policing have been the subject of heated debates in California and nationwide, while crime rates have ...

December 07, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Aguiar-Curry Introduces Constitutional Amendment to Boost Local Investments in Infrastructure and Affordable Housing

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 04, 2018
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Aguiar-Curry Introduces Constitutional Amendment to Boost Local Investments in Infrastructure and Affordable Housing

(From Press Release) – Today, Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry (D – Winters) and several of her Assemb ...

(From Press Release) – Today, Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry (D – Winters) and several of her Assembly colleagues introduced ACA 1, a constitutional amendment which would give local governments i ...

December 04, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Fire Danger Adds Urgency to Climate Change

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 26, 2018
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Fire Danger Adds Urgency to Climate Change

We have learned, once again this month, that the risk of fire presents a multi-fold danger to areas of Ca ...

We have learned, once again this month, that the risk of fire presents a multi-fold danger to areas of California – even those locations where the risk of actual fire is comparatively low. On the one ...

November 26, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Schools Made a Tough Call, Is This Really the Future We Face?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 16, 2018
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Commentary: Schools Made a Tough Call, Is This Really the Future We Face?

UC Davis tried to open earlier this week and the students protested the decision. The administration aft ...

UC Davis tried to open earlier this week and the students protested the decision. The administration after the push back re-considered their decision, and ended up closing school for the week. Given ...

November 16, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Governor Brown Appoints Legal Adviser to the Supreme Court

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: November 15, 2018
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Governor Brown Appoints Legal Adviser to the Supreme Court

(From Press Release) - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced Joshua Groban as his choice for assoc ...

(From Press Release) - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced Joshua Groban as his choice for associate justice of the California Supreme Court. Joshua Groban, 45, of Los Angeles, has served as ...

November 15, 2018
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Commentary: The New Normal?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 13, 2018
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Commentary: The New Normal?

It wasn’t an incredibly hot fall. In fact, I don’t know that we had a single real heat wave after Labor ...

It wasn’t an incredibly hot fall. In fact, I don’t know that we had a single real heat wave after Labor Day. But we’ve had almost no rain, and for most of October the temperatures were running aroun ...

November 13, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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State Follows Davis on Default Beverages for Children

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 02, 2018
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State Follows Davis on Default Beverages for Children

Back in 2015, Davis became the first in the state to move away from soda as the default beverage for kids ...

Back in 2015, Davis became the first in the state to move away from soda as the default beverage for kids' meals. At the time, staff noted, “Sugary beverages play a central and unique role in the obes ...

November 02, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: Proposition 10 May Hinge on the Vote of Homeowners

Posted by Robert Cabrera
|Date: October 30, 2018
| (13) Comments

Guest Commentary: Proposition 10 May Hinge on the Vote of Homeowners

by Robert Cabrera Proposition 10 on the November 2018 ballot may hinge on the vote of homeowners in the s ...

by Robert Cabrera Proposition 10 on the November 2018 ballot may hinge on the vote of homeowners in the state of California, where renters are a minority. Polling on this issue is missing but looking ...

October 30, 2018
| by Robert Cabrera

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