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Why I Ride: Loretta Moore

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: February 05, 2019
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Why I Ride: Loretta Moore

By Jennifer Ann Gordon Loretta Moore pours her heart and soul into her job as the Program Coordinator for ...

By Jennifer Ann Gordon Loretta Moore pours her heart and soul into her job as the Program Coordinator for the City of Davis’s “Street Smarts/Safe Routes to School” program. Moore is a certified League ...

February 05, 2019
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Contentious Mace Boulevard Construction Meeting at East Davis Fire House

Posted by Matt Williams
|Date: January 31, 2019
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Contentious Mace Boulevard Construction Meeting at East Davis Fire House

by Matt Williams Between 100 and 150 community members jammed the East Davis Fire House Wednesday evening ...

by Matt Williams Between 100 and 150 community members jammed the East Davis Fire House Wednesday evening from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm. Fifty of the community were provided seats, but the rest of the atten ...

January 31, 2019
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Why I Ride: Jonathan and Rhea Bartlett

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: January 28, 2019
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Why I Ride: Jonathan and Rhea Bartlett

By Jennifer Ann Gordon Jonathan Bartlett, a business process analyst with Yolo County Health and Human S ...

By Jennifer Ann Gordon Jonathan Bartlett, a business process analyst with Yolo County Health and Human Services, began working with The Bike Campaign founder, Maria Contreras Tebbutt, on the Safe Rou ...

January 28, 2019
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Why I Ride: Wesley Yates

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|Date: January 23, 2019
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Why I Ride: Wesley Yates

By Jennifer Ann Gordon Wesley Yates, 91, is going strong. An avid skier and cyclist, and a lifelong outdo ...

By Jennifer Ann Gordon Wesley Yates, 91, is going strong. An avid skier and cyclist, and a lifelong outdoorsman, Yates recently purchased an electric road bicycle, or e-bike, from Freewheeler Bicycle ...

January 23, 2019
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Why I Ride: Scott Thomsen

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: January 22, 2019
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Why I Ride: Scott Thomsen

By Jennifer Ann Gordon Scott Thomsen, Principal of Ralph Waldo Emerson Junior High School in Davis, commu ...

By Jennifer Ann Gordon Scott Thomsen, Principal of Ralph Waldo Emerson Junior High School in Davis, commutes to work from Woodland most days, rain or shine, on his e-bike, which can reach 27 m.p.h. He ...

January 22, 2019
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Why I Ride: Jenny Tan

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: January 20, 2019
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Why I Ride: Jenny Tan

Courtesy Photo By Jennifer Ann Gordon Jenny Tan, a UC Davis alumna, went from driving every day to and fr ...

Courtesy Photo By Jennifer Ann Gordon Jenny Tan, a UC Davis alumna, went from driving every day to and from her job as the Public Information Officer for Yolo-Solano Air Quality Management District (Y ...

January 20, 2019
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Report Finds Davis Has a Number of Most Walkable Neighborhoods in Region

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 28, 2018
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Report Finds Davis Has a Number of Most Walkable Neighborhoods in Region

An article that originally ran in late August, was re-run this week in the Sacramento Bee. “Want a walka ...

An article that originally ran in late August, was re-run this week in the Sacramento Bee. “Want a walkable neighborhood? These rank highest for amenities in the Sacramento region.” They note that “n ...

December 28, 2018
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Fixing Richards Blvd At Least Partially Has Become Possible

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 17, 2018
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Fixing Richards Blvd At Least Partially Has Become Possible

Over the years, the city of Davis has attempted a number of fixes to the perpetual problem of traffic flo ...

Over the years, the city of Davis has attempted a number of fixes to the perpetual problem of traffic flow through the narrow Richards Corridor into the south end of the downtown. In the late 1990s, ...

December 17, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Third Street Improvement Project is Almost Completed – Years Later

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 15, 2018
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Third Street Improvement Project is Almost Completed – Years Later

The Third Street Improvement Project is almost completed – if it seems like it has been a long time – you ...

The Third Street Improvement Project is almost completed – if it seems like it has been a long time – you would be correct. The road has been blocked off for over a year, but the project has been in ...

December 15, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Aguiar-Curry Introduces Constitutional Amendment to Boost Local Investments in Infrastructure and Affordable Housing

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 04, 2018
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Aguiar-Curry Introduces Constitutional Amendment to Boost Local Investments in Infrastructure and Affordable Housing

(From Press Release) – Today, Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry (D – Winters) and several of her Assemb ...

(From Press Release) – Today, Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry (D – Winters) and several of her Assembly colleagues introduced ACA 1, a constitutional amendment which would give local governments i ...

December 04, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Measure L Forum Part IV – the Conclusion

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 18, 2018
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Measure L Forum Part IV – the Conclusion

CivEnergy hosted a forum on Measure L on Sunday at the Community Chambers in Davis. Representing the Yes ...

CivEnergy hosted a forum on Measure L on Sunday at the Community Chambers in Davis. Representing the Yes on L side was developer Jason Taormino, affordable housing Developer David Thompson, and Counc ...

October 18, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: One Size Does Not Necessarily Fit All in Smart Growth

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 03, 2018
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Commentary: One Size Does Not Necessarily Fit All in Smart Growth

Keeping an open mind is important in civic life. One reason for doing that is that once you make up your ...

Keeping an open mind is important in civic life. One reason for doing that is that once you make up your mind, you tend to use arguments to rationalize your position. Whereas, if you keep an open mi ...

October 03, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Round and Round We Go on Plaza 2555 – Mega-Dorms Reconstituted or Needed Rental Housing?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 04, 2018
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Commentary: Round and Round We Go on Plaza 2555 – Mega-Dorms Reconstituted or Needed Rental Housing?

Round and round we went yesterday on the issue of Plaza 2555. I think it’s important to separate fact fr ...

Round and round we went yesterday on the issue of Plaza 2555. I think it’s important to separate fact from opinion. We all have lots of opinions and it is okay to differ on them. However, when we a ...

September 04, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Abusing CEQA Is Hurting Us All

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 12, 2018
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Commentary: Abusing CEQA Is Hurting Us All

Yesterday I was reading through the material on Field + Pond and one of the things that struck me was how ...

Yesterday I was reading through the material on Field + Pond and one of the things that struck me was how neighbors were suing under CEQA (California Environmental Quality Act) to stop a development t ...

July 12, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: More Student Housing?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 02, 2018
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Monday Morning Thoughts: More Student Housing?

In the wake of the voter passage of Nishi, this is a question every governing body in Davis is likely to ...

In the wake of the voter passage of Nishi, this is a question every governing body in Davis is likely to ask. As I have pointed out before, given the university’s agreement to build 9050 beds and the ...

July 02, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Studies Link Housing with Traffic, but in the Opposite Way that You Think

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 27, 2018
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Commentary: Studies Link Housing with Traffic, but in the Opposite Way that You Think

It never fails in Davis, you have a housing project and the opposition will make the argument that it wil ...

It never fails in Davis, you have a housing project and the opposition will make the argument that it will increase traffic. Even in the case of Nishi, where the new version intentionally avoided the ...

June 27, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: The City Looks to Public Input on Downtown Planning

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 20, 2018
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Commentary: The City Looks to Public Input on Downtown Planning

As part of the city’s efforts at developing a Core Area Specific Plan, the city has a survey (see here: h ...

As part of the city’s efforts at developing a Core Area Specific Plan, the city has a survey (see here: http://www.cityofdavis.org/EnvisionDowntownDavis). The public is encouraged to take the survey. ...

June 20, 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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Sierra Club Yolano Group 2018 Council Candidates Part 5 – Transportation Management and Toxics in the Environment

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: April 23, 2018
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Sierra Club Yolano Group 2018 Council Candidates Part 5 – Transportation Management and Toxics in the Environment

by Alan Pryor The Sierra Club Yolano Group recently provided a questionnaires for Davis City Council cand ...

by Alan Pryor The Sierra Club Yolano Group recently provided a questionnaires for Davis City Council candidates in which we asked for written responses on a wide range of environmentally-related issue ...

April 23, 2018
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Commentary: Nishi Good or Bad for Overall Environment?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 10, 2018
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Commentary: Nishi Good or Bad for Overall Environment?

Most of the discussion on Nishi and the environment has focused on the issue of air quality at the Nishi ...

Most of the discussion on Nishi and the environment has focused on the issue of air quality at the Nishi site itself. On this point, I continue to maintain that the concerns over air quality at the s ...

April 10, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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