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My View: District Elections and Dillan Horton

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 22, 2023
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My View: District Elections and Dillan Horton

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – On the local front, there was an interesting column th ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – On the local front, there was an interesting column this week from Bob Dunning regarding the candidacy of Dillan Horton. Dunning references a reader ...

July 22, 2023
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My View: DiSC Isn’t Going to Turn Davis into Elk Grove

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 28, 2022
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My View: DiSC Isn’t Going to Turn Davis into Elk Grove

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – For those people who argue they don’t want to turn Dav ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – For those people who argue they don’t want to turn Davis into Natomas or Elk Grove—I get it. I don’t want to either. I don’t think anyone does. An ...

May 28, 2022
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Sunday Commentary: Dunning Starts to Weigh in on Aggie Research Campus

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 05, 2020
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Sunday Commentary: Dunning Starts to Weigh in on Aggie Research Campus

It is interesting—and frankly kind of nice—to see that Bob Dunning on Friday and Sunday this week has wad ...

It is interesting—and frankly kind of nice—to see that Bob Dunning on Friday and Sunday this week has waded into the issue of Aggie Research Campus. This coming week’s council meeting deals almost ex ...

April 05, 2020
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Commentary: Even at Five Districts, Change Could Be on the Way for Davis

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 31, 2019
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Commentary: Even at Five Districts, Change Could Be on the Way for Davis

In a recent column, columnist Bob Dunning argues that the district elections solution “only makes things ...

In a recent column, columnist Bob Dunning argues that the district elections solution “only makes things worse.” The trouble is – he is possibly correct on this point. The council opted to go with t ...

October 31, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Dunning is Not Being Helpful on District Elections

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 21, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Dunning is Not Being Helpful on District Elections

“We should fight” – that’s the implication of Bob Dunning’s column this week. I get the impulse, as no o ...

“We should fight” – that’s the implication of Bob Dunning’s column this week. I get the impulse, as no one wants to be forced to do something, especially in a process that seems questionable at best ...

October 21, 2019
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Commentary: Errors in Dunning Column Lead to Wrong Conclusions on City Demographics

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 12, 2019
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Commentary: Errors in Dunning Column Lead to Wrong Conclusions on City Demographics

In a column that appeared in the Sunday, September 1, paper, Bob Dunning writes that he sent a note to Ma ...

In a column that appeared in the Sunday, September 1, paper, Bob Dunning writes that he sent a note to Mayor Pro Tem Gloria Partida “asking what she thinks about our sudden move to district elections. ...

September 12, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Analysis of District Elections Misses the Motivation of the College Republicans

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 26, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Analysis of District Elections Misses the Motivation of the College Republicans

Bob Dunning’s column this weekend lights into Matt Rexroad. It’s not that we necessarily blame him for t ...

Bob Dunning’s column this weekend lights into Matt Rexroad. It’s not that we necessarily blame him for this, but the problem is his analysis is incomplete and seems to assume this is about a paycheck ...

August 26, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: A Lot of Unfounded Arguments against District Elections

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 05, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: A Lot of Unfounded Arguments against District Elections

One official from the city told me a few weeks ago that they had thought the school district bowed down t ...

One official from the city told me a few weeks ago that they had thought the school district bowed down too easily on the threat of district elections – until they looked at the statutes and case law ...

August 05, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: On Struggling Suburbs and Declining Bicycle Legacy

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 29, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: On Struggling Suburbs and Declining Bicycle Legacy

This morning’s column puts together two different thoughts into one column. The Bee’s analysis of suburb ...

This morning’s column puts together two different thoughts into one column. The Bee’s analysis of suburbs and housing. and Bob Dunning’s seeming tunnel vision of the decline of Davis' bicycling place ...

July 29, 2019
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Commentary: Rexroad Letter Shows School District Did the Right Thing

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 25, 2019
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Commentary: Rexroad Letter Shows School District Did the Right Thing

The school board took a lot of heat for making the decision to go to district elections. As it turns out ...

The school board took a lot of heat for making the decision to go to district elections. As it turns out they made the exact right decision – as we have now seen from what has happened with the city. ...

July 25, 2019
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My View: Dunning Attacks District Elections but Ignores Montgomery and Achievement Gap in Doing So

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 29, 2019
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My View: Dunning Attacks District Elections but Ignores Montgomery and Achievement Gap in Doing So

Columnist Bob Dunning continues to lament the school board decision to transition to district elections – ...

Columnist Bob Dunning continues to lament the school board decision to transition to district elections – and while there are certainly aspects of it that deserve questioning, at this point it’s a don ...

June 29, 2019
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Commentary: Research Shows We Must Figure Out Ways to Get Our Kids More Sleep

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 04, 2019
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Commentary: Research Shows We Must Figure Out Ways to Get Our Kids More Sleep

The research on late start is pretty overwhelming. Studies show that teens need 8.5 to 9.5 hours of slee ...

The research on late start is pretty overwhelming. Studies show that teens need 8.5 to 9.5 hours of sleep, but get about 7.6 hours of sleep on average. And that’s just on average – many probably get ...

June 04, 2019
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Commentary: We Can Blame the Judge If He Gets the Law Wrong

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 30, 2019
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Commentary: We Can Blame the Judge If He Gets the Law Wrong

In a recent column that has attracted some attention, Bob Dunning argues that Judge Samuel McAdam ruled c ...

In a recent column that has attracted some attention, Bob Dunning argues that Judge Samuel McAdam ruled correctly on Trackside and suggests that the city ought not “blame the judge for the law.” My pr ...

May 30, 2019
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Letter: Dunning Column Off the Mark

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 03, 2019
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Letter: Dunning Column Off the Mark

By Richard McCann Bob Dunning managed to go 0 for 2 in the May 1 edition with two columns that were off t ...

By Richard McCann Bob Dunning managed to go 0 for 2 in the May 1 edition with two columns that were off the mark. In his first at bat, he described a media market that does not exist, and may have nev ...

May 03, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: Designing Complete Streets Doesn’t Necessarily Mean Punishing Automobiles

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 14, 2019
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Sunday Commentary: Designing Complete Streets Doesn’t Necessarily Mean Punishing Automobiles

When I read the editorial by the Davis Enterprise, I was a bit disturbed by the implication of this state ...

When I read the editorial by the Davis Enterprise, I was a bit disturbed by the implication of this statement: “The operative principle in all these projects seems to be that if only we make driving ( ...

April 14, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Everyone Has Made Up Their Minds on Mace – but What if They’re Wrong?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 10, 2019
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Commentary: Everyone Has Made Up Their Minds on Mace – but What if They’re Wrong?

On Thursday, there will be another meeting on the Mace Boulevard issue, and hopefully by that point the c ...

On Thursday, there will be another meeting on the Mace Boulevard issue, and hopefully by that point the city will be ready to roll out what it views as a solution to a slew of publicly expressed conce ...

April 10, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Does Davis Believe in Science?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 25, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Does Davis Believe in Science?

As we move toward a decision on paid parking, it is disconcerting the extent to which Davis, home of a wo ...

As we move toward a decision on paid parking, it is disconcerting the extent to which Davis, home of a world class university, ignores science and scientific methods when it serves its purpose. We ma ...

March 25, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Measure R Threatened By Its Most Loyal Supporters

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 18, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Measure R Threatened By Its Most Loyal Supporters

During the Nishi and WDAAC (West Davis Active Adult Community) campaigns, we pointed out that Measure R c ...

During the Nishi and WDAAC (West Davis Active Adult Community) campaigns, we pointed out that Measure R campaigns have largely devolved into mudslinging affairs. The way that critics of projects beli ...

February 18, 2019
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Sunday Commentary: Paid Parking is Controversial but Also Misunderstood

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 17, 2019
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Sunday Commentary: Paid Parking is Controversial but Also Misunderstood

There are a lot of misconceptions about the nature of the parking problem in the Davis Downtown. I fully ...

There are a lot of misconceptions about the nature of the parking problem in the Davis Downtown. I fully agree with the comment made back in 2017 by now-Mayor Brett Lee: “We don’t have a supply issue ...

February 17, 2019
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Sunday Commentary: We Had Far More Choice with VCE Than We Ever Had with PG&E

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 02, 2018
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Sunday Commentary: We Had Far More Choice with VCE Than We Ever Had with PG&E

I continue to find the narrative by columnist Bob Dunning to be ironic. He writes, “I continue to get so ...

I continue to find the narrative by columnist Bob Dunning to be ironic. He writes, “I continue to get so many complaints about the way we were all signed up for Valley Clean Energy without our permis ...

September 02, 2018
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