It looks like Supervisor Jim Provenza will prevail in his efforts to get the Board of Supervisors to comply with the Brown Act after all.  On February 8, the Board of Supervisor will consider an item ...

A group calling themselves Citizens Alliance for Regional Environmental Sustainability (CARES) sent a letter through Davis Attorney Donald Mooney* Thursday alleging a Brown Act violation occurred at t ...

Currently the County Board of Supervisors, like the Davis School Board, rotates its presiding officer in order to share the bounty and the experience.  This arrangement produces equity at the expense ...

As Saylor is Sworn In, He's Already Talking About Developing on Davis' Periphery - On the local front, the Vanguard watched county officials who were sworn in on Monday morning.  It was a relatively u ...

A war of words is brewing in the County Government over the water deal signed a week and a half ago by Yolo County with Angelo Tsakopoulos.  County Supervisor Jim Provenza of Davis is accusing the cou ...

People keep asking me if I think this is a good deal for Davis and Yolo County.  Quite frankly I do not know the answer to that.  It may be a good deal, it may not be a good deal.  We may not know the ...

Back in June we ran an article on the problems that Yolo County had in responding to public records requests in a timely matter.There is a good article this morning in the Woodland Daily Democrat on t ...

There is a good article this morning in the Woodland Daily Democrat on the problems that the Yolo County Counsel's Office had with responding to public records requests. Earlier this year, I had made ...

It began as a very simply comment that Matt Rexroad has likely done thousands of times, he updated his Facebook status as he would sometimes update his blog, rexroad.com, with a comment about the poli ...

On Tuesday May 5, at 10 AM the Yolo County Board of supervisors will discuss whether to reduce public health services provided by the County to people who have no medical insurance at all.  The Yolo C ...

This is a brand new feature on the Vanguard.  Every week, we will put a local official in the spotlight and ask them ten tough questions with follow ups.  The goal is to press them on the tough issues ...

Yolo County On July 19, 2008, Yolo County Supervisor Matt Rexroad, an elected public official in this county for some reason decided to launch a war against the Yolo County Flatlander, a small, low pr ...

Yolo County As the city of Davis and Yolo County brace for a potential showdown on Tuesday over three proposed "special study areas" on the Davis periphery which have been proposed for inclusion in th ...

Yolo County The Yolo County Board of Supervisors earlier today heard an item to approve and authorize the implementation of the Medical Marijuana Identification Card Program in Yolo County as required ...

Josh Fernandez of the Daily Democrat reports that the Yolo County Board of Supervisors will be holding a public hearing on the Health Department's proposed implementation of the statewide Medical Mari ...

Matt Rexroad to keep his job as head of Meridian PacificMatt Rexroad got sworn in today as County Supervisor for the 3rd District. Reporter Josh Fernandez in this morning's Woodland Daily Democrat wri ...

It is unfortunate that the Yolo County Board of Supervisors last month decided to table their proposed pay raise. While Dudley Hollman (former Mayor of Woodland) threatened to put a referendum on the ...

Yolo County Supervisor Helen Thomson spoke at the December 12, 2006 County Supervisor's meeting on the issue of the proposed pay raise for county supervisors. During the course of her talk, she mentio ...

More on the County Supervisor's Pay RaiseOkay so Bob Dunning obviously decides he too must weigh in on the issue of the pay raise for County Supervisors.Dunning bets us that if we polled 100 residents ...

I read on Matt Rexroad's blog that there is a referendum in the works sponsored by the Yolo County Taxpayer' Association to rescind the Supervisor’s pay increase. I assume what they would rescind is t ...