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Aguiar-Curry Discusses Minimum Wage and Farm Worker Overtime in Second Part of Interview

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|Date: January 05, 2017
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Aguiar-Curry Discusses Minimum Wage and Farm Worker Overtime in Second Part of Interview

Newly elected Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry sat down with Leanna Sweha of the Davis Vanguard for an ...

Newly elected Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry sat down with Leanna Sweha of the Davis Vanguard for an interview on a variety of topics. The former Mayor of Winters discussed a variety of issues o ...

January 05, 2017
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California Legislature Prepares to Fight Back, Hires Former AG Holder

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 05, 2017
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California Legislature Prepares to Fight Back, Hires Former AG Holder

In a sign of an epic showdown between California and a pending Trump Administration, Senate Leader Kevin ...

In a sign of an epic showdown between California and a pending Trump Administration, Senate Leader Kevin de León and Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon announced on Wednesday that they are hiring former ...

January 05, 2017
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Assemblymember Aguiar-Curry Talks Land Use, Economic Development

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|Date: January 04, 2017
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Assemblymember Aguiar-Curry Talks Land Use, Economic Development

Newly elected Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry sat down with Leanna Sweha of the Davis Vanguard for an ...

Newly elected Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry sat down with Leanna Sweha of the Davis Vanguard for an interview on a variety of topics. The former Mayor of Winters discussed a variety of issues o ...

January 04, 2017
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Will Stricter Climate Change Rules in 2017 Propel or Choke the California Economy?

Posted by Leanna Sweha
|Date: January 02, 2017
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Will Stricter Climate Change Rules in 2017 Propel or Choke the California Economy?

by Leanna Sweha At a recent meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Governor Brown called on climate s ...

by Leanna Sweha At a recent meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Governor Brown called on climate scientists to tell the truth in the face of “climate deniers, big oil and big financial structur ...

January 02, 2017
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Commentary: If You Build It, We Can Overcome

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 30, 2016
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Commentary: If You Build It, We Can Overcome

When the plastic industry put the plastic bag ban on the ballot, it seemed to me unlikely that they would ...

When the plastic industry put the plastic bag ban on the ballot, it seemed to me unlikely that they would succeed in overturning the statewide law. Why? Because by the time the election happened, ov ...

December 30, 2016
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AG, Coastal Commission File Suit to Stop Fracking off California Coastline

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|Date: December 20, 2016
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AG, Coastal Commission File Suit to Stop Fracking off California Coastline

(From Press Release) - Attorney General Kamala D. Harris and the California Coastal Commission today file ...

(From Press Release) - Attorney General Kamala D. Harris and the California Coastal Commission today filed a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Department of the Interior's final environmental assessment, w ...

December 20, 2016
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Will Lt. Governor Newsom Show Backbone to Open Up Beach to Public?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 08, 2016
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Will Lt. Governor Newsom Show Backbone to Open Up Beach to Public?

On the surface it seems like a local and parochial issue – billionaire venture capitalist and Sun Microsy ...

On the surface it seems like a local and parochial issue – billionaire venture capitalist and Sun Microsystems co-founder Vinod Khosla has been blocking access to the only road to Martins Beach, a cre ...

December 08, 2016
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Climate Change Policies in Doubt?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 28, 2016
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Climate Change Policies in Doubt?

Back in September, Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation that introduces truly radical levels of climat ...

Back in September, Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation that introduces truly radical levels of climate change policy. The legislation signed by the governor requires the state to cut emissions at ...

November 28, 2016
| by David Greenwald

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Latest Climate Change Spending Plan is a Hard Sell for Some Democrats

Posted by Leanna Sweha
|Date: September 20, 2016
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Latest Climate Change Spending Plan is a Hard Sell for Some Democrats

Effectiveness and Fairness of Programs Questioned By Leanna Sweha Governor Brown signed a bill last week ...

Effectiveness and Fairness of Programs Questioned By Leanna Sweha Governor Brown signed a bill last week to fund climate change programs with $900 million from the state’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fun ...

September 20, 2016
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My View: California Passes Climate Change Policy with Teeth

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 10, 2016
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My View: California Passes Climate Change Policy with Teeth

This week Governor Brown signed legislation that introduces truly radical levels of climate change policy ...

This week Governor Brown signed legislation that introduces truly radical levels of climate change policy. The legislation signed by the governor on Wednesday requires the state to cut emissions at l ...

September 10, 2016
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Residential Infill in Davis and the Death of Governor Brown’s Affordable Housing Trailer Bill

Posted by Leanna Sweha
|Date: August 23, 2016
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Residential Infill in Davis and the Death of Governor Brown’s Affordable Housing Trailer Bill

By Leanna Sweha Last Friday’s article about campus housing generated a range of comments with competing v ...

By Leanna Sweha Last Friday’s article about campus housing generated a range of comments with competing views on where best to house students. Included was debate on the proposed Sterling 5th Street ...

August 23, 2016
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Bill That Would Have Shone Light on “Anonymous” CEQA Plaintiffs Fails in Committee

Posted by Leanna Sweha
|Date: April 20, 2016
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Bill That Would Have Shone Light on “Anonymous” CEQA Plaintiffs Fails in Committee

Would Bill Have Had Relevance to Nishi Lawsuit? By Leanna Sweha AB 2026 had its first and only hearing ye ...

Would Bill Have Had Relevance to Nishi Lawsuit? By Leanna Sweha AB 2026 had its first and only hearing yesterday in the Assembly Natural Resources Committee. The purpose of AB 2026 was to address the ...

April 20, 2016
| by Leanna Sweha

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Assemblymember Dodd Lays Out Legislative Priorities

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|Date: March 26, 2016
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Assemblymember Dodd Lays Out Legislative Priorities

By Vanguard Editorial Board On Thursday March 17, the Editorial Board for the Davis Vanguard met with Ass ...

By Vanguard Editorial Board On Thursday March 17, the Editorial Board for the Davis Vanguard met with Assemblyman Bill Dodd. The meeting sought to delve deeper into Dodd’s platform and allow him the c ...

March 26, 2016
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Living in the Anthropocene – The Sixth Great Mass Extinction

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|Date: March 21, 2016
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Living in the Anthropocene – The Sixth Great Mass Extinction

By Debra Chase “So mankind gobbled in a century all the world’s resources that had taken millions of yea ...

By Debra Chase “So mankind gobbled in a century all the world’s resources that had taken millions of years to store up, and no one on the top gave a damn or listened to all the voices that were tryin ...

March 21, 2016
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Senator Wolk Introduces Climate Change Measures

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|Date: February 20, 2016
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Senator Wolk Introduces Climate Change Measures

Bills support investment in key strategy in Governor’s climate change plan (From press release) Senator L ...

Bills support investment in key strategy in Governor’s climate change plan (From press release) Senator Lois Wolk (D-Davis) introduced two measures today to solidify the important role that protection ...

February 20, 2016
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Analysis: Does Statewide Plastic Bag Referendum Even Matter?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 31, 2015
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Analysis: Does Statewide Plastic Bag Referendum Even Matter?

In February a statewide ban on single-use plastic bags was put on hold as the industry succeeded in quali ...

In February a statewide ban on single-use plastic bags was put on hold as the industry succeeded in qualified a referendum for the November 2016 ballot. But as more and more local communities have alr ...

December 31, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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Analysis Challenges Key Findings in CEQA Report

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 07, 2015
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Analysis Challenges Key Findings in CEQA Report

Yesterday, we presented a critique of CEQA (California Environmental Quality Act), with the law firm of H ...

Yesterday, we presented a critique of CEQA (California Environmental Quality Act), with the law firm of Holland & Knight arguing that CEQA is often used not by environmental groups, but rather by ...

October 07, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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CEQA Litigation Abuse Undermines Purpose of Landmark Environmental Law

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 06, 2015
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CEQA Litigation Abuse Undermines Purpose of Landmark Environmental Law

The California Environmental Quality Act, better known as CEQA, was landmark legislation passed in 1970 i ...

The California Environmental Quality Act, better known as CEQA, was landmark legislation passed in 1970 in order to create a statewide policy of environmental protection. While CEQA does not directly ...

October 06, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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Rain Doesn’t Always Follow the Plow

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: September 18, 2015
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Rain Doesn’t Always Follow the Plow

By Debra Chase The Sunday morning dawn brought in the smoke over the farm, choking and oily, yet its orig ...

By Debra Chase The Sunday morning dawn brought in the smoke over the farm, choking and oily, yet its origin was 60 miles away. As the fires swept through the towns of Middletown and Cobb in Lake Count ...

September 18, 2015
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Reconsidering the Delta Tunnels

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: September 16, 2015
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Reconsidering the Delta Tunnels

by Elizabeth Lasensky and Carol Warren The following letter was submitted for the public record regarding ...

by Elizabeth Lasensky and Carol Warren The following letter was submitted for the public record regarding the Delta Tunnels project. The last day to submit public comments about the Tunnels project is ...

September 16, 2015
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