(From Press Release – Innocence Project) – (New York – December 30, 2019) Today, the Hon. Joseph Zayas of Queens County Supreme Court granted a motion to vacate the...
When UC Davis first announced the World Food Center concept a few years ago, it argued it was a way to “promote innovative, sustainable and equitable food systems.” “The...
In 2010, the Vanguard’s fledgling Court Watch Project followed a six-month Yolo County trial as a group of lawyers, volunteering their time, attacked the West Sacramento...
The Harvest Cycle Davidson v. El Dorado County case features two separate questions: the constitutionality of SB 1437 and whether Mr. Davidson was a major participant in...
Want to raise the hackles of people on this site? Talk about parking. One of the rallying cries of the people opposing the ARC (Aggie Research Campus) is to point out t...
The homeless problem has markedly increased in Davis over the last decade. To give you an idea of just how much, I was just looking at an old article that noted the home...
In Canadian County, Oklahoma if you have the money, you get out of jail. If you are poor, you stay in. That’s why we sued. By Twla Carter, Megan Lambert, Claudia Center,...
Polling shows that the top issue for Davis is the affordability of housing. The year 2020 figures to be an interesting year for housing issues. We will have the Univers...
Over the holiday break, one of my books I am reading is the case of Sacco and Vanzetti in 1921. At the height of the red scare and following a series of high profile bom...
According to a complaint, police in Oak Lawn, a suburb of Chicago, subjected Tylus Allen Jr. to invasive searches, all of which turned up nothing. By Aaron Morrison A fed...
Last spring, several years after the Davis Downtown Parking Advisory Task Force recommended we go to paid parking, the Davis City Council finally took up the issue. Afte...
The 9th District Court of Appeals ruled on Tuesday that police cannot use a chokehold on someone who is not resisting. They ruled that there a “robust consensus” among ap...
Davis Mayor Brett Lee comes on for his second monthly podcast. The big question the day before Christmas – did the council address core issues or were they simply p...
It was only two years ago when people were questioning whether a Measure R project – any Measure R project – could win. It was one thing for the 2005 Measure X, at the e...
How one single mother lost everything, including her son, because of Michigan’s outdated tough on crime sentencing laws. By Nicole Zayas Fortier and Kimberly Buddin-Crawf...
Trische Duckworth helped found Survivors Speak in February 2018. They have heavily focused on wrongful convictions due to Ms. Duckworth’s work with the Vesey Family...
Last Friday, HUD released its annual estimate of homelessness and that figure shows that people living on the streets increased by 2.7 percent this year nationally – almo...
By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – A Sacramento Black man will be spending the holidays languishing in a coma at the UC Davis Medical Center he...
by Mark Dempsey Most environmentalists do not request the economy halt so no harm would come to the environment, instead advocating minimizing development impacts. It...
One man, Paul Houser, is serving 60 years on a drug conviction for purchasing cold medicine and batteries. He’s one of 2,600 people incarcerated as a result of the...