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Sunday Commentary II: POU Has Emerged as a Hot Button Issue While Roads Are Ignored

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 06, 2014
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Sunday Commentary II: POU Has Emerged as a Hot Button Issue While Roads Are Ignored

As we noted earlier this week, results from a Davis Downtown survey suggest that the city of Davis may la ...

As we noted earlier this week, results from a Davis Downtown survey suggest that the city of Davis may lack the support to pass its parcel tax that would fund roads and other infrastructure maintenanc ...

April 06, 2014
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: Council Fails to Take Lead on Paid Parking

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 06, 2014
| (54) Comments

Sunday Commentary: Council Fails to Take Lead on Paid Parking

One of the more critical votes in the last few weeks was council backtracking on the issue of paid parkin ...

One of the more critical votes in the last few weeks was council backtracking on the issue of paid parking. Without the paid parking component, it is difficult to see how the rest of the 19 recommend ...

April 06, 2014
| by David Greenwald

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Social Sustainability – Encouraging the Next Generation

Posted by Rob White
|Date: April 03, 2014
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Social Sustainability – Encouraging the Next Generation

by Rob White Sarah Worley and I had the privilege of attending the Sierra Nevada Innovation Challenge yes ...

by Rob White Sarah Worley and I had the privilege of attending the Sierra Nevada Innovation Challenge yesterday hosted by the Innovate North State iHub on the Chico State campus. You can learn more ab ...

April 03, 2014
| by Rob White

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Commentary: Beyond Paid Parking Debacle, We have Failed to See the Future

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 02, 2014
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Commentary: Beyond Paid Parking Debacle, We have Failed to See the Future

As we argued in yesterday’s column, the other solutions to parking were not going to work without paid pa ...

As we argued in yesterday’s column, the other solutions to parking were not going to work without paid parking. As we argued yesterday, one of the things we have heard from the start is that the reco ...

April 02, 2014
| by David Greenwald

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Analysis: Survey Bolsters Concern Parcel Tax Would Not Pass This Fall

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 02, 2014
| (17) Comments

Analysis: Survey Bolsters Concern Parcel Tax Would Not Pass This Fall

In yesterday’s column, we summarized the Davis Downtown’s survey on the fiscal crisis. At the outset of ...

In yesterday’s column, we summarized the Davis Downtown’s survey on the fiscal crisis. At the outset of the following analysis we warn that the survey is not a representative sample – in fact it over ...

April 02, 2014
| by David Greenwald

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Vanguard Commentary: Troubling Vote on Parking

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 01, 2014
| (1) Comment

Vanguard Commentary: Troubling Vote on Parking

With the site problems, we have been waiting to weigh in on last week’s vote on parking. Really, our con ...

With the site problems, we have been waiting to weigh in on last week’s vote on parking. Really, our concern is not about whether there should be paid parking – that is clearly a difficult issue. Rat ...

April 01, 2014
| by David Greenwald

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Vanguard Commentary: Restoring Trust

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 01, 2014
| (3) Comments

Vanguard Commentary: Restoring Trust

One conversation I find myself rather consistently having is the fundamental lack of trust that segments ...

One conversation I find myself rather consistently having is the fundamental lack of trust that segments of the community have in city government. Conversely, one reason I have been told that segment ...

April 01, 2014
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: City Settles for the Small ‘w’ on Sales Tax Ballot Measure

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 01, 2014
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Sunday Commentary: City Settles for the Small ‘w’ on Sales Tax Ballot Measure

In an ideal world, the city of Davis would have liked the clean victory on Measure with Judge Reed ruling ...

In an ideal world, the city of Davis would have liked the clean victory on Measure with Judge Reed ruling what most of us already know –there is nothing false and misleading about calling a sales tax ...

April 01, 2014
| by David Greenwald

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PG&E/ IBEW Poll Shows Davis Residents Opposed to POU

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 26, 2014
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PG&E/ IBEW Poll Shows Davis Residents Opposed to POU

Back in February the Vanguard reported about a poll conducted within the city of Davis about PG&E and ...

Back in February the Vanguard reported about a poll conducted within the city of Davis about PG&E and other related issues. The results of this poll, which was questioned and scrutinized at the t ...

March 26, 2014
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary II: Addressing the Parking Problem

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 23, 2014
| (41) Comments

Sunday Commentary II: Addressing the Parking Problem

The parking problem in the Davis Downtown is a difficult proposition. We can question whether city staff ...

The parking problem in the Davis Downtown is a difficult proposition. We can question whether city staff really needed to develop a parking advisory task force and we can perhaps question some of the ...

March 23, 2014
| by David Greenwald

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Caution: City In Danger of Losing Message on Fiscal Crisis

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 21, 2014
| (30) Comments

Caution: City In Danger of Losing Message on Fiscal Crisis

I could not disagree with much, if anything, that Robin Wiener wrote today in the Davis Enterprise. She w ...

I could not disagree with much, if anything, that Robin Wiener wrote today in the Davis Enterprise. She writes, “We’ve been told that the city is in such bad financial shape that we’ll be voting soon ...

March 21, 2014
| by David Greenwald

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A Look at the City’s Sales Tax Revenue History

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 20, 2014
| (18) Comments

A Look at the City’s Sales Tax Revenue History

There have been repeated requests from the city to provide sales tax data. We present the data here in g ...

There have been repeated requests from the city to provide sales tax data. We present the data here in graphical forms. The first set of data is the Davis historical sales tax numbers since the adop ...

March 20, 2014
| by David Greenwald

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Vanguard Analysis: City Modifies Retiree Medical Vesting Plan

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 18, 2014
| (22) Comments

Vanguard Analysis: City Modifies Retiree Medical Vesting Plan

When the city approved the 2009-2010 MOUs, all of them included a revision to the Retiree Health Benefit, ...

When the city approved the 2009-2010 MOUs, all of them included a revision to the Retiree Health Benefit, that created a vesting of the benefits. The city at the time believed it could receive “poten ...

March 18, 2014
| by David Greenwald

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Judge Backs City on Final Water Rate Ruling

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 18, 2014
| (4) Comments

Judge Backs City on Final Water Rate Ruling

Despite the lengthy process for re-arguing the water rates case in lieu of Judge Dan Maguire’s January ru ...

Despite the lengthy process for re-arguing the water rates case in lieu of Judge Dan Maguire’s January ruling that upheld the constitutionality of the city’s newly implemented water rates, Judge Magui ...

March 18, 2014
| by David Greenwald

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The Electric Grid and the Requirements to Manage It Are Changing

Posted by Matt Williams
|Date: March 17, 2014
| (4) Comments

The Electric Grid and the Requirements to Manage It Are Changing

by Matt Williams In his article on Friday, Mark Braly ended with the following paragraph. The Davis munic ...

by Matt Williams In his article on Friday, Mark Braly ended with the following paragraph. The Davis municipal utility is in an exploratory stage now. When and how the city seizes the opportunity to ma ...

March 17, 2014
| by Matt Williams

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Council Takes Stand on Crude Oil Transport by Rail

Posted by Michelle Millet
|Date: March 15, 2014
| (13) Comments

Council Takes Stand on Crude Oil Transport by Rail

by Michelle Millet Last Tuesday Mike Webb, Director of Community Development & Sustainability, presen ...

by Michelle Millet Last Tuesday Mike Webb, Director of Community Development & Sustainability, presented a status update to council on the Benicia/Valero Oil by Rail Project. In December of 2012 t ...

March 15, 2014
| by Michelle Millet

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Is the End Near for Big, Centralized Investor-owned Utilities?

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: March 14, 2014
| (26) Comments

Is the End Near for Big, Centralized Investor-owned Utilities?

by Mark Braly The Davis City Council has reopened the question of a Davis-owned municipal electric utili ...

by Mark Braly The Davis City Council has reopened the question of a Davis-owned municipal electric utility at a time when the relevance of traditional investor-owned utility is being questioned throu ...

March 14, 2014
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Another Unjustified Sales Tax

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: March 12, 2014
| (19) Comments

Another Unjustified Sales Tax

By Jose Granda and Thomas Randall No sooner the Davis School District put to sleep the parcel taxes issu ...

By Jose Granda and Thomas Randall No sooner the Davis School District put to sleep the parcel taxes issue after Measure E last year that the Davis City Council woke it up again. This time with a two ...

March 12, 2014
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Sunday Commentary: Opposition to Sales Tax Didn’t Do Their Homework

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 09, 2014
| (2) Comments

Sunday Commentary: Opposition to Sales Tax Didn’t Do Their Homework

I read the opposition's argument against the sales tax measure, and I have to say, I liked it much better ...

I read the opposition's argument against the sales tax measure, and I have to say, I liked it much better when it was called by its other name, the opposition to the school parcel tax. Seriously, I t ...

March 09, 2014
| by David Greenwald

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Ballot Arguments Submitted on Sales Tax

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: March 08, 2014
| (20) Comments

Ballot Arguments Submitted on Sales Tax

Friday was the filing deadline for the ballot initiatives. The major races that the Vanguard is covering ...

Friday was the filing deadline for the ballot initiatives. The major races that the Vanguard is covering are all extended until Wednesday because there is no incumbent filing for one of the city coun ...

March 08, 2014
| by Vanguard Administrator

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