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A Smart and Strategic Approach to Meeting Our Sports Field Needs

Posted by Dan Carson
|Date: July 17, 2016
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A Smart and Strategic Approach to Meeting Our Sports Field Needs

By City of Davis Sports Complex Task Force On Tuesday, July 19, the Davis City Council will review the fi ...

By City of Davis Sports Complex Task Force On Tuesday, July 19, the Davis City Council will review the final report of the Sports Complex Task Force. Below is the summary of that report. The full docu ...

July 17, 2016
| by Dan Carson

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Commentary: Sign of the Times

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 05, 2016
| (68) Comments

Commentary: Sign of the Times

In the past week, we have been talking about the lack of sustainable future we have in Davis. One exampl ...

In the past week, we have been talking about the lack of sustainable future we have in Davis. One example is the lack of money to maintain current facilities or to purchase and upgrade new infrastruc ...

July 05, 2016
| by David Greenwald

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2016-17 Budget and Long-Term Projectionss

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: June 20, 2016
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2016-17 Budget and Long-Term Projectionss

By Dan Carson (The following is a memo from Dan Carson to the Finance and Budget Commission. The bullet p ...

By Dan Carson (The following is a memo from Dan Carson to the Finance and Budget Commission. The bullet points listed at the beginning of this analysis were adopted by the Finance and Budget Commissio ...

June 20, 2016
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Monday Morning Thoughts II: Council Carving Out One-Time Money for Capital Projects

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 13, 2016
| (43) Comments

Monday Morning Thoughts II: Council Carving Out One-Time Money for Capital Projects

The good news for the city is that the immediate budget picture has improved to the point where the counc ...

The good news for the city is that the immediate budget picture has improved to the point where the council has decided to use one-time monies, basically its fund balance, to address some of the city' ...

June 13, 2016
| by David Greenwald

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Council Receives Report on Capital Improvement Projects for 2016-17

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 27, 2016
| (2) Comments

Council Receives Report on Capital Improvement Projects for 2016-17

The Davis City Council on Tuesday received a report on the proposed Capital Improvement Projects for next ...

The Davis City Council on Tuesday received a report on the proposed Capital Improvement Projects for next year. According to staff, the total budget for these projects is around $59 million, with 70 ...

May 27, 2016
| by David Greenwald

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Yes on Measure A Reaches 1,000 Endorsement Milestone

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: May 25, 2016
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Yes on Measure A Reaches 1,000 Endorsement Milestone

(From Press Release) The Yes on Measure A campaign this weekend reached a milestone: 1,000+ public endors ...

(From Press Release) The Yes on Measure A campaign this weekend reached a milestone: 1,000+ public endorsers and supporters for the Nishi Gateway Innovation Center. They include every current city cou ...

May 25, 2016
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Improving the Davis Rental Housing Inspection Program

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: May 22, 2016
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Improving the Davis Rental Housing Inspection Program

Earlier this week, the Davis City Council unanimously pushed forward the rental housing inspection progra ...

Earlier this week, the Davis City Council unanimously pushed forward the rental housing inspection program. City staff will come back with a specific proposed ordinance. The Sacramento Housing Allia ...

May 22, 2016
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Economic Development Series – A Different Way to Thrive

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: May 21, 2016
| (17) Comments

Economic Development Series – A Different Way to Thrive

By Tia Will Along with many others, I was asked to share my thoughts about how best to proceed in dealing ...

By Tia Will Along with many others, I was asked to share my thoughts about how best to proceed in dealing with our city’s economic problems. At first, I thought that I would write about the limitation ...

May 21, 2016
| by Vanguard Administrator

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City Council Candidate Question 6: Vision for Davis in 20 Years

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 13, 2016
| (23) Comments

City Council Candidate Question 6: Vision for Davis in 20 Years

For the next eight weeks, the Vanguard will be sending the Davis City Council candidates weekly questions ...

For the next eight weeks, the Vanguard will be sending the Davis City Council candidates weekly questions. They have 250 to 350 words. Question #1: Do you support Measure A (Nishi) – why or why not? ...

May 13, 2016
| by David Greenwald

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Time, Life, Balance, Community Morality & Measure A

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: May 05, 2016
| (43) Comments

Time, Life, Balance, Community Morality & Measure A

By Jeff Boone I love science written at the eighth-grade reading level (so I can understand it). I don’ ...

By Jeff Boone I love science written at the eighth-grade reading level (so I can understand it). I don’t like it when my science is politicized, but that is a topic for another day. I love history ...

May 05, 2016
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Monday Morning Thoughts II: Why It Might Be Easier to Vote Down a Parcel Tax Than Change the School Board

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 11, 2016
| (22) Comments

Monday Morning Thoughts II: Why It Might Be Easier to Vote Down a Parcel Tax Than Change the School Board

On Saturday, the Vanguard column noted that the frustration over the state of the AIM program has once ag ...

On Saturday, the Vanguard column noted that the frustration over the state of the AIM program has once again brought the whispers back about mounting an opposition to the parcel tax. Many have pushed ...

April 11, 2016
| by David Greenwald

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City Has to Clarify Position on Wild Turkeys

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 04, 2016
| (42) Comments

City Has to Clarify Position on Wild Turkeys

A KCRA News report on Wednesday caused a fury in the city of Davis when a city official appeared to call ...

A KCRA News report on Wednesday caused a fury in the city of Davis when a city official appeared to call for hunting restrictions on wild turkeys to be lifted. According to the story, “In Davis, wild ...

March 04, 2016
| by David Greenwald

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Personal Accounts of Racism in Davis

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: March 03, 2016
| (99) Comments

Personal Accounts of Racism in Davis

by Jerika L.H. The introduction to this article will be purposefully short on the grounds that t ...

by Jerika L.H. The introduction to this article will be purposefully short on the grounds that this piece is a much needed exercise in listening, instead of sermoning. However, I would be rem ...

March 03, 2016
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Bike Campaign to Reduce Global Warming

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: February 17, 2016
| (3) Comments

Bike Campaign to Reduce Global Warming

By Maria Contreras Tebbutt Two months ago, 195 nations reached a landmark accord that will commit nearly ...

By Maria Contreras Tebbutt Two months ago, 195 nations reached a landmark accord that will commit nearly every country in the world to lowering their planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions to help st ...

February 17, 2016
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Three Ways to Stop Receiving Junk Mail

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 11, 2016
| 0 comments

Three Ways to Stop Receiving Junk Mail

by Michelle Millet A few months ago, I headed to the post office to open a P.O. Box for an organization I ...

by Michelle Millet A few months ago, I headed to the post office to open a P.O. Box for an organization I am involved with. We weren’t anticipating much mail so I requested the smallest size box, whic ...

January 11, 2016
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Preparing For Life with a Three-Day Newspaper

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 23, 2015
| (9) Comments

Commentary: Preparing For Life with a Three-Day Newspaper

One of the biggest topics of discussion outside of the local issues in the last few weeks has been the de ...

One of the biggest topics of discussion outside of the local issues in the last few weeks has been the decision by the Davis Enterprise to go to a three-day delivery schedule. For the most part, the V ...

December 23, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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Bicycle Ownership Drops by Half While Obesity in California Rises by 153%

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: December 08, 2015
| (50) Comments

Bicycle Ownership Drops by Half While Obesity in California Rises by 153%

A new study released this month reveals a shocking trend: between 1989 and 2012 bicycle ownership decline ...

A new study released this month reveals a shocking trend: between 1989 and 2012 bicycle ownership declined by half, "from an average PBO [percentage bicycle ownership] of 60% in 1989 to 32% in 2012." ...

December 08, 2015
| by Vanguard Administrator

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DPOA Disavows “War on Cops Letter”

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 04, 2015
| (7) Comments

DPOA Disavows “War on Cops Letter”

On Wednesday, the Vanguard reported that a letter, reading like a national form letter, had been sent out ...

On Wednesday, the Vanguard reported that a letter, reading like a national form letter, had been sent out to members of the community seeking to raise funds for the local Davis Police Officers’ Associ ...

December 04, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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City Releases Shadow Study to Gauge the Impact of Trackside

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 03, 2015
| (27) Comments

City Releases Shadow Study to Gauge the Impact of Trackside

One of the biggest questions about the proposed Trackside project, which currently is planned at five and ...

One of the biggest questions about the proposed Trackside project, which currently is planned at five and a half stories where the highest point of the project would be at 78 feet above the street, is ...

December 03, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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Analysis: Complex Situation Leads to MOUs

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 01, 2015
| (76) Comments

Analysis: Complex Situation Leads to MOUs

There are multiple considerations driving the apparent council support for MOUs that will provide four ba ...

There are multiple considerations driving the apparent council support for MOUs that will provide four bargaining units with a 3 percent COLA (Cost-of-Living Adjustment), should the Davis City Council ...

December 01, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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