Local Leaders and Activists Push for Health Care in Sacramento
On Thursday on the steps of the Capitol a coalition of labor unions and community organizations who…
Commentary: Who is left to defend Yolo County Farmland?
As reported yesterday in the local press, Sacramento developer Angelo Tskaopoulos is proposing developing a 2,800 acre…
State Senate Bill Would Impose Growth on Cities
At Tuesday’s Davis City Council Meeting, Councilmember Don Saylor reported on SB 303, a bill in California’s…
Police Oversight Legislation Held Up by Assembly Committee
In August 2006 California Supreme Court decision in Copley Press v. Superior Court, issued a ruling that…
City Puts Out Propaganda Piece on Water Supply Project
Like many resident of Davis, I recently received in the mail a publication from the City of…
Proposing Senior Housing and Peripheral Growth in Davis
Many Davis residents were stunned earlier this year to hear that the county might be considering a…
Things We Can Do in Our Community to Help Save the Planet
The issue of global warming has finally captured the media, public, and politician of the left side’s…
Mishkas Cafe Project: Evaluating Historic Preservation with Commercial Development
The latest project that appears once again to threaten the historic nature of our downtown is the…
Column: View From West Davis
This is my weekly column of thoughts and tidbits from the week that has passed. A little…
Commentary: Subcomittee and Staff Look Ill-prepared in Anti-Discrimination Ordinance Deliberations
In many ways this was entirely of their own doing. In April, Councilmember Lamar Heystek pulled a…
Council Deliberations on Anti-Discrimination Ordinance
For those who missed the Davis City Council Meeting from Tuesday evening, here are some of the…
Assembly Committee to Hear Police Oversight Legislation on Tuesday
For those who watched the Davis City Council debate on Tuesday regarding the Human Relations Commission and…
STUNNING REVERSAL BY COUNCIL ON ANTI-DISCRIMINATION ORDINANCE
“Fait accompli,” were the words I used to close my remarks in yesterday’s column to describe the…
Commentary: Council and Staff Try To Justify Weakening of Historic Civil Rights Ordinance
If you read the Davis Enterprise last night, you would be led to believe that the historic,…
Commentary: Police Photography of Protesters Butts up Against the Line
Following up on last week’s report on UC Davis police taking photos of the protesters and also…
Key Issues Facing the Legislature in Upcoming Races
Barring something very much unexpected, it seems that Yolo County voters will have two contested Democratic primaries…
Commentary: Tearing Down our City’s Character
It took me a long time to realize why the vote on Third and B Street “Visioning”…
Column: View from West Davis
This is going to be my new weekly column of thoughts and tidbits from the week that…
Souza and Asmundson Propose to Strip Civil Rights Protections from Seminal City Ordinance
The Davis City Council in 1986 passed one of the most sweeping anti-discrimination ordinances in the country….
Council Expands Open Container Ordinance
At Tuesday’s City Council Meeting, the Council voted to extend the Open Container Ordinance to greenbelts and…
