Is Vergis Already Playing Games with Her Announcement for City Council?
Something did not seem right Sunday when on the front page of the Davis Enterprise, there was a picture of Sydney Vergis, who had just announced her candidacy for city council for the second time. She was flanked in the picture as she was last time around by her boyfriend, Anthony Eggert.
However, in the caption under the picture, posed in front of her campaign sign, it read, “stops downtown during a bicycle ride with her boyfriend, who declined to give his name due to a government job that prevents him from endorsing candidates for political office.”
By E. Roberts Musser – 
As we face yet another round of cuts to education in Davis that could result in the loss of an additional 30 to 50 teachers depending on how the math falls out and how the legislature and governor end up passing a budget. The situation with higher education is becoming increasingly dire with furloughs, cuts in classes, and massive fee increases. In a lot of ways the very fabric of California’s existence is coming apart at the seems. We have cut programs and funding to the bone but any even hint of a discussion of taxation is DOA.
I read Dave Taormino’s Op-Ed in the Enterprise today and he raises some interesting points against UC Davis constructing West Village, but also some faulty ones. But in the end, it was a bit unsettling to me that a developer would be arguing against someone else’s development. The first question that comes to my mind is that this is an inherent conflict of interest. At the very least it is a bit disingenuous.
On the crux of one of the brightest days in Davis in recent memory, a day when we had a hard fought victory to open a store in West Davis, something that many people told us would never happen, I stumbled onto a rather sobering conversation about the state of the school district.
Last week, the Davis School District learned that they would need to cut an additional one million dollars from their budget as the Davis Teachers Association President Ingrid Salim announced that DTA would not be accepting one million dollars in budget concessions in order to avoid further job losses.
Rich Rifkin is kind enough on his 
It was a fact first mentioned in the December Sacramento Bee article on District Attorney Jeff Reisig that the number of felony trials in Yolo County has risen from 30 or 40 a year to 120 a year since Reisig took over. The result of that is that Monroe Detention center is no longer heavily backed up and the process has been streamlined.
Tonight the Davis City Council is re-examining the issue of limitation to the Interfaith Rotating Winter Shelter. This follows direction from the December 15, 2009 Davis City Council Meeting where Councilmember Lamar Heystek and Stephen Souza recommended possible modifications to the policy passed on December 1 2009.
Last fall when Democrats were crumbling in the face of water bill demands by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, one the Democrats who stood the strongest against potential destruction of the Delta was Senator Lois Wolk in her first term as Senator after spending six years in the Assembly.
Readers of the Opinion Section of the Davis Enterprise were treated once again to claims by members of CHA (Choices for Healthy Aging), an Astroturf group that is a front for the Covell Village developers to push their massive senior housing project on the lower third of the Covell Village site.
Back in October, the Davis City Council opted against a third part review of city actions involving the refinance of DACHA by a 3-2 vote. The majority of council, opted instead to focus city efforts on saving DACHA which was in critical danger of defaulting on the city’s loan that could cause the homes to go into foreclosure.
We have had a busy week this week and we are just now getting to the City Manager’s State of the City Address. Bill Emlen concluded his speech suggesting that he saw his critic in the audience and poking fun at the fact that he had a critic, but the fact is, he needs a critic. The average person listening to his speech might have thought the city was on top of key issues and problems.
