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Monday Morning Thoughts: A Long List of Authors with a Long List of Problems with Nishi, but…

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 04, 2018
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Monday Morning Thoughts: A Long List of Authors with a Long List of Problems with Nishi, but…

The list of authors is long, it’s a list of longtime progressives mixed with some new faces: Cara Bradley ...

The list of authors is long, it’s a list of longtime progressives mixed with some new faces: Cara Bradley, Thomas Cahill, Gilbert Coville, Pam Gunnell, Marilee Hanson, Michael Harrington, David Kupfer ...

June 04, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Letter: We Need Nishi

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: June 04, 2018
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Letter: We Need Nishi

By Maynard Skinner When I was first elected to City Council in 1966, Davis was an entirely different plac ...

By Maynard Skinner When I was first elected to City Council in 1966, Davis was an entirely different place. We saw the city more than double from around 3,500 to almost 9,000. During my time as Mayor ...

June 04, 2018
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Commentary: Who Gets Harmed As We Debate Over Process and the Perfect?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 31, 2018
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Commentary: Who Gets Harmed As We Debate Over Process and the Perfect?

In this long debate over Nishi, I perhaps agree with Matt Williams on one thing – the system is in fact b ...

In this long debate over Nishi, I perhaps agree with Matt Williams on one thing – the system is in fact broken, but not as he describes. I think it is broken because we cannot provide for the basic n ...

May 31, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Robb Davis/Matt Williams Dialogue on Nishi Financials – Part Two

Posted by Matt Williams
|Date: May 29, 2018
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Robb Davis/Matt Williams Dialogue on Nishi Financials – Part Two

On Saturday afternoon Mayor Robb Davis took the time to provide eleven (11) responses (see LINK) to the e ...

On Saturday afternoon Mayor Robb Davis took the time to provide eleven (11) responses (see LINK) to the eleven specific points I had made in my earlier comment (see LINK) Saturday morning. I thank Rob ...

May 29, 2018
| by Matt Williams

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Robb Davis/Matt Williams Dialogue on Nishi Financials — Part One

Posted by Matt Williams
|Date: May 28, 2018
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Robb Davis/Matt Williams Dialogue on Nishi Financials — Part One

Yesterday morning in the comments of David’s latest advocacy statement in favor of the Nishi project, I p ...

Yesterday morning in the comments of David’s latest advocacy statement in favor of the Nishi project, I posted the following response: Individuals have different reasons for opposing this Nishi projec ...

May 28, 2018
| by Matt Williams

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More Weird Red Herrings on Nishi from the No Side

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 28, 2018
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More Weird Red Herrings on Nishi from the No Side

The Vanguard has received these public records regarding Colin Walsh asking the city questions on Nishi. ...

The Vanguard has received these public records regarding Colin Walsh asking the city questions on Nishi. Give him some credit here – at least this time he asked the questions before putting his weird ...

May 28, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Students Wearing High Heels in Protest of Alleged Sexist Comments by Nishi Opponent

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 24, 2018
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Students Wearing High Heels in Protest of Alleged Sexist Comments by Nishi Opponent

It started late on Tuesday as Colin Walsh, who is wearing a number of overlapping hats this election cycl ...

It started late on Tuesday as Colin Walsh, who is wearing a number of overlapping hats this election cycle, on Facebook posted a screen shot of a Yes on J sponsored article. The sponsored article was ...

May 24, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Nonsensical Argument that Nishi Project Will Make Downtown Traffic Worse

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 23, 2018
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Commentary: Nonsensical Argument that Nishi Project Will Make Downtown Traffic Worse

I noticed on my Facebook feed an article by John Troidl on another site that argues the Nishi project wil ...

I noticed on my Facebook feed an article by John Troidl on another site that argues the Nishi project will make downtown traffic worse. That certainly doesn’t make a lot of sense to me, as I will exp ...

May 23, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Potential Nishi Sales Tax Revenues from Construction

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: May 23, 2018
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Potential Nishi Sales Tax Revenues from Construction

by Richard McCann One fiscal impact not included in previous analyses is the additional sales tax revenue ...

by Richard McCann One fiscal impact not included in previous analyses is the additional sales tax revenues from construction. The proposed Nishi project is subject to sales and use taxes upon construc ...

May 23, 2018
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Commentary: Why Nishi?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 18, 2018
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Commentary: Why Nishi?

Measure J/Measure R campaigns seem to have devolved into an exercise where the opponents of a project att ...

Measure J/Measure R campaigns seem to have devolved into an exercise where the opponents of a project attack the weaknesses of the project and the proponents of the project are forced to play defense ...

May 18, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Maximizing Density At Nishi No Guarantee

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 16, 2018
| (38) Comments

Commentary: Maximizing Density At Nishi No Guarantee

One of the more curious issues in the Nishi debate is the notion that the Nishi project underutilizes its ...

One of the more curious issues in the Nishi debate is the notion that the Nishi project underutilizes its space. Matt Williams, for example, in a column on the Vanguard, acknowledges, “We have a seri ...

May 16, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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UC Davis Graduate Student Association & ASUCD Endorse Measure J – Students Housing at Nishi

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: May 16, 2018
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UC Davis Graduate Student Association & ASUCD Endorse Measure J – Students Housing at Nishi

(From Press Release) – The UC Davis Graduate Student Association (GSA) and the Associated Students of Uni ...

(From Press Release) – The UC Davis Graduate Student Association (GSA) and the Associated Students of University of California, Davis (ASUCD) both recently passed resolutions in support of Measure J – ...

May 16, 2018
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Commentary: Opponents of Nishi Should Stop Digging into Their Weird Red Herrings

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 15, 2018
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Commentary: Opponents of Nishi Should Stop Digging into Their Weird Red Herrings

There is an old adage in politics – when you find yourself in a hole, stop digging. But Colin Walsh and ...

There is an old adage in politics – when you find yourself in a hole, stop digging. But Colin Walsh and Matt Williams just can’t help themselves. They start a two-part series attempting to get out o ...

May 15, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Getting the Nishi Discussion out of the Rabbit Hole: Part 2 of 2 (lack of process integrity)

Posted by Matt Williams
|Date: May 15, 2018
| (4) Comments

Getting the Nishi Discussion out of the Rabbit Hole: Part 2 of 2 (lack of process integrity)

by Matt Williams and Colin Walsh The Davis Vanguard’s article of May 9, 2018 (“Commentary: Enough with th ...

by Matt Williams and Colin Walsh The Davis Vanguard’s article of May 9, 2018 (“Commentary: Enough with the Weird Red Herrings”) is a disservice to the Davis Community. Instead of addressing the main b ...

May 15, 2018
| by Matt Williams

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Getting the Nishi Discussion Out of the Rabbit Hole: Part 1 of 2 (air quality, finances)

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: May 14, 2018
| (26) Comments

Getting the Nishi Discussion Out of the Rabbit Hole: Part 1 of 2 (air quality, finances)

by Matt Williams and Colin Walsh The Davis Vanguard’s article of May 9, 2018 (“Commentary: Enough with th ...

by Matt Williams and Colin Walsh The Davis Vanguard’s article of May 9, 2018 (“Commentary: Enough with the Weird Red Herrings”) is a disservice to the Davis Community. Instead of addressing the main b ...

May 14, 2018
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Commentary: Enough with the Weird Red Herrings

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 09, 2018
| (43) Comments

Commentary: Enough with the Weird Red Herrings

The most memorable moment of the forum on Sunday came when Colin Walsh was pursuing another hypothetical ...

The most memorable moment of the forum on Sunday came when Colin Walsh was pursuing another hypothetical nitpick of the Nishi project. It is one thing to complain about legitimate concerns in a proje ...

May 09, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Mayor Apologizes

Posted by Robb Davis
|Date: May 09, 2018
| (7) Comments

Mayor Apologizes

By Robb Davis An Apology: I wish to offer an apology for my behavior at the CivEnergy Forum of Sunday, Ma ...

By Robb Davis An Apology: I wish to offer an apology for my behavior at the CivEnergy Forum of Sunday, May 6, 2018. I apologize for accusing Matt Williams and Colin Walsh of lying (of being liars) whe ...

May 09, 2018
| by Robb Davis

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Opposing Sides Clash on Nishi during Forum

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 08, 2018
| (76) Comments

Opposing Sides Clash on Nishi during Forum

Sunday afternoon featured a forum on each of the three measures on the ballot this June. This marked the ...

Sunday afternoon featured a forum on each of the three measures on the ballot this June. This marked the first time the Yes and No sides squared off against each other on Nishi, and they did not disa ...

May 08, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Analysis: Nishi Gains the Endorsement of the Enterprise

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 05, 2018
| (38) Comments

Analysis: Nishi Gains the Endorsement of the Enterprise

Anyone who has followed politics in Davis knows that the Davis Enterprise has long been far more supporti ...

Anyone who has followed politics in Davis knows that the Davis Enterprise has long been far more supportive of development than the general population. They have probably endorsed each of the previou ...

May 05, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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GSA Hears Resolutions to Support Measure J, Johansson, Guenther, and Disarming of Campus Police

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: May 04, 2018
| (21) Comments

GSA Hears Resolutions to Support Measure J, Johansson, Guenther, and Disarming of Campus Police

GSA counts votes differently in order to endorse Guenther; many graduate students distrustful of Guenther ...

GSA counts votes differently in order to endorse Guenther; many graduate students distrustful of Guenther’s “soft no” on Measure J by Jenean Docter On Wednesday, the UC Davis Graduate Student Associat ...

May 04, 2018
| by Vanguard Administrator

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