Council Opposes Sue Greenwald’s Appointment to the Water JPA
At Tuesday’s City Council meeting, during the portion of the agenda where council would approve changes to the appointments that councilmembers would serve on commission liasons, committees and other interjurisdictional bodies, changes were considered, based on the appointment of Dan Wolk to the Davis City Council at the end of February.
Councilmember Sue Greenwald opposes the current direction of the city’s water policies and has been seeking to get appointed to serve on the Joint Water JPA body that currently Mayor Joe Krovoza and Councilmember Stephen Souza sit on.
On Tuesday, Governor Jerry Brown made the announcement that he was ending negotiations with Republicans in an effort to extend taxes to resolve the budget deficit that remains after the spending cuts were passed last week.
On Tuesday, Yolo County Superior Court Judge Kathleen White issued her long-awaited ruling on whether to grant a “permanent” gang injunction. The trial had lasted from July until December 15, and we have been waiting over three months for a ruling.
After months in a trial and several months of deliberating, Judge Kathleen White ruled, as most observers and participants expected from the very start, to impose a seven-year injunction on the “Safety Zone” in West Sacramento.
The Veritas Initiative, the research and policy arm of the Northern California Innocence Project (NCIP) at Santa Clara University School of Law, today released Preventable Error: Prosecutorial Misconduct in California 2010, which follows up on last October’s Presentation.
by Delaine Eastin – 
One of the most contentious issues that has arisen with regard to the new Governor’s budget has been a proposal to eliminate redevelopment agencies in California.
Yesterday the Yolo County trial of Oscar Barrientos opened. Mr. Barrientos is accused of burglarizing a West Sacramento home. Not exactly the stuff that a Judicial Watch is made of, except for the fact that the only real evidence linking him to the burglary is a partial print of a palm.
In 2009, Councilmember Lamar Heystek created an alternative budget to that presented by Finance Director Paul Navazio. It called for fewer cuts from core services and greater savings from the upcoming employee bargaining session, but also a downwardly revised revenue projection.
There is an old adage in politics that I rarely subscribe to which is to be careful what you ask for. After all you would be paralyzed if you adhered to that principle, unable to act.
After competing in an urban scavenger race in the Bay Area, former Davis City Councilmember Lamar Heystek came up with a way Davisites could pitch in to aid the earthquake and tsunami relief efforts in Japan.
It was interesting to read Bob Dunning claim this morning that an important election is an odd time for an experiment. I agree that Measure A is an important election, one of the more important that we have faced in this community. The community has a chance to continue its commitment by locally funding half of the deficit left by inflation and cuts to state funding for education.
Every week, I use this space and time on Sunday to highlight a critical issue facing our community. This past week was a strange week with an odd combination of occurrences, Spring Break at UC Davis, week off for council, quiet week in the courts. I spent more time this week waiting around and trying to find a story than actually finding stories.
Last year, the UC Davis campus was shaken by a series of apparent hate incidents. This year those have not occurred, for whatever reason.
In August of 2010, Michael Artz was found not guilty of the main charge in his case, forced oral copulation, but guilty of having sex with a minor and contacting a minor for the purposes of having sex.
The Vanguard Looks Further into Investigation That Found No Wrongdoing in UC Davis Sports Cuts – 
Saylor Names Vergis to County Planning Commission –