After much speculation, Davis Mayor Joe Krovoza has announced this morning that he will be running for the State Assembly to succeed Assemblymember Mariko Yamada in the newly formed Fourth Assembly Di ...

"I'm here because across the street, in that beautiful building owned by the people of California we have folks who don't want to fix early release, and we're in a parking structure where a lot of peo ...

The Vanguard learned from multiple sources that on Tuesday night former Davis Mayor and County Supervisor Don Saylor has decided not to run for the Assembly District seat currently held by Mariko Yama ...

Announcement Comes As Officials in Florida Acknowledge Voter Suppression Methods - This fall, California Governor Jerry Brown signed a measure into law, supported by Secretary of State Debrah Bowen an ...

By Dan Aiello  GUEST COMMENTARY - Advocates of universal access to higher education fear California voters, faced with two competing education tax initiatives will fail both, effectively abandoning th ...

About 20 years ago when the US Congress passed the Motor Voter Law, I recall a friend of mine, a political consultant, telling me how this law would change the political dynamics in this country.  It ...

by Jeff Boone COLUMN RIGHT - This November we will be asked to vote on Proposition-30, Governor Brown's state ballot initiative to increase sales and income tax to help fund education and public safet ...

VANGUARD ANALYSIS - Polling last week showed support for Proposition 30 had dropped to as low as 46 percent - still technically ahead in the polls, but conventional wisdom is that measures with less t ...

This week, just as the two sides were prepared to go to war, Molly Munger, the backer of Proposition 38, decided to pull statewide ads attacking Proposition 30. Proposition 30 is on life support, with ...

While many are focusing on the Presidential Election or the local school board and parcel tax elections, Proposition 30 may have the single greatest impact locally, not just on K-12 education but also ...

It has been a long time since California has been on the forefront of anything in this nation.  However, as many other states have moved to making voting more difficult, enacting draconian if not dise ...

A new survey conducted jointly by The Institute of Governmental Studies (IGS) at UC Berkeley and The Field Poll finds the initiative backed by Governor Jerry Brown, Proposition 30, continuing to lead ...

There have been past efforts to increase voter participation.  In my first election as an adult, my generation launched "Rock the Vote," aimed at getting the participation of youth.  Later there was t ...

Last March, the threat of a protest by the Occupy movement caused the Davis Monsanto Plant to close its doors.  Now, beginning early this morning, protesters, led perhaps by Cindy Sheehan, will be bac ...

Jose Granda, the oft-times critic of the Davis School District, tried to take his fight to the legislature on Tuesday.  His target this time was legislation sponsored by Assemblymember Mariko Yamada, ...

It has been a fascinating week in California politics.  We have a field poll release giving us interesting information about the state's political landscape, and news at the end of the week suggesting ...

A few years ago, Republicans, believing that legislative districts had been unfairly drawn, joined with the "good government" folks who believe that partisanship is bad to create a citizens redistrict ...

The Sacramento Bee and other media outlets are reporting this morning that Republicans have announced that they will support a signature drive to overturn the newly-drawn Senate Districts, prior to th ...

Critics Complain About Possibility of Voter Fraud, But Studies Show Few Instances of Confirmed Voter Fraud in Absentee Voting - In May, the Davis School District held an all-mail election for the parc ...

There has been a lot of talk about the new California districts; the consensus is that while there may be a limited case to be made for racial disparity and the disadvantaging of minority voters, Cali ...