Judge’s Ruling: Anonymity Protections Not Absolute
The Vanguard has proven partially if not mostly successful in its efforts to quash a subpoena seeking records by the plaintiffs in the suit Calvin Chang v. the Regents of the University of California.
The plaintiff’s subpoena sought identifying information, including names and addresses, of those individuals who under the names “Mack Chuchillo” and “anonymous” posted certain comments about Mr. Chang and his lawsuit. The comments were posted on the Vanguard just a few days after plaintiff filed suit in February 2009.
Joint Water Project with Woodland About To Be Approved –
The Vanguard has been following the federal class action lawsuit in Antioch that was filed over alleged discriminatory practices involving the treatment of African American Section 8 housing recipients by the Antioch Police Department under Davis’ former Police Chief Jim Hyde.
Matt Krupnick from Contra Costa Times reported last Thursday that the University of California may raise student fees an additional 32 percent by the fall of 2010. This would boost the annual undergraduate tuition to over the 10,000 dollar mark for the first time in the system’s history.
It is becoming more and more clear that the path has already been set out to increase water exports out of the Delta. The Water Conference Committee set up by Senator Darrell Steinberg last week excluded Senator Wolk, Assemblymember Mariko Yamada and the other legislators who represent districts in and around the Delta.
by Justin Smith
When the city council voted by a 3-2 margin to approve the 2009-10 budget, we were critical that the effort was heavily reliant on more positive assumptions for future revenue and economic recovery than perhaps was warranted. To add to that concern was the heavy reliance on cutting city services as opposed to dealing with the longer term and more pervasive structural problems that the city faces in the form of employee compensation and a variety of unfunded liabilities.
On the night of July 21, 2009, the Davis City Council dropped back into punt formation and punted the political hot potato that is the wood burning issue back even further off the horizon… yet again.
There is enough confusion in the public as to what happened in the Gore case that it seems worthwhile to at least attempt to put together a timeline of events that are in the public record. The concern here goes back again to the article the Vanguard printed on Monday about the bias of local media. The local media was willing to print a story that was 90 to 95 percent straight out of the District Attorney’s press release.
