Assemblymember Tom Torlakson, candidate for the State Superintendent of Public Instruction told a good-sized crowd at the Palm Court Hotel on Monday night in Davis that he is a teacher and therefore f ...

It is that time of year, time to read through all of the convoluted legalese of California's ballot initiatives and figure out where you stand on the most obscure laws that will probably never impact ...

Execution Now Off as We Look at Jerry Brown on the Death Penalty - The whirlwind continued the past few days as the clock was ticking on the expiration of the lethal injection drugs, set to expire on ...

While pundits will likely be quick to point out that there were no knockout punches thrown on Tuesday night at the first debate, the debate did offer an at-times refreshing respite from the normal for ...

by Karina Piser - On Tuesday night, both candidates for California governor came together at the UC Davis Mondavi Center to debate key issues in the November election, such as education and the Califo ...

At a time when support for a death penalty is softening, and other states like North Carolina have joined the call for a moratorium on the death penalty, we see Attorney General Jerry Brown pushing ha ...

Why doesn't more law enforcement support the elimination of marijuana laws?  In private, most police officers will acknowledge they do not like marijuana laws.  Some do not like drug laws in general a ...

by Mary Zhu Proposition 23 is a contest over nothing less than California’s energy future. As such, it will be hard fought with campaign spending projected to exceed the previous record of $154 millio ...

When PG&E pumped in millions in an attempt to prevent public power from gaining more marketshare into California, the California voters saw through the charade and voted to defeat the measure.  Now th ...

The amount of time and money we spend on drug enforcement is mindboggling, particularly in light of the state of our economy, the various budgets of local entities, and the utter lack of success.For t ...

I have read a couple of commentaries opposed to Proposition 19 which would legalize marijuana in California.  As I read these things, I wonder if people really understand the extent to which drug laws ...

Last summer I went on police ridealongs, first with the Davis Police Department and the next night with the Woodland police department.  Both nights we encountered individuals in respective parks in p ...

During the last campaign, as reported by this site, an Independent Expenditure campaign launched by Mayor Ruth Asmundson and Marty West attempted to resurrect a flagging Sydney Vergis campaign for Dav ...

Two weeks ago, the voters of California said no to PG&E's attempt to buy marketshares and avoid competition from public power.  Davis residents saw through the charade, voting against the measure ...

A lot of people I think took for granted that given the amount of money that PG&E spent on Proposition 16, to essentially put public power out of business, that it would prevail.  In fact, PG& ...

By Dan Berman - Proposition 16, sponsored by PG&E Corp., would amend our state constitution to require a two-thirds vote to replace privately owned utilities like PG&E. According to the Bakers ...

By now many have already seen the beginnings of the PG&E campaign to somehow trick the voters into approving the blatantly transparent Proposition 16 - a measure that would require a two-thirds vo ...

Remember 2006, at the time, PG&E spent over $10 million to prevent Yolo County from turning to SMUD for its power.  It was a complicated process in that Yolo County had to pass two initiatives and ...

But Attorney General Brown's Misstep Should Bring Pause - The polls had consistency shown that Former Governor and current Attorney General Jerry Brown was the odds on favorite to the win the Democrat ...

The California Supreme Court by a 6 to 1 vote today, with the only dissenting Justice, Carlos Moreno, also the only Democrat on the court, upheld the ban on Same Sex Marriage that was passed by the vo ...