Will New Water Project Unequally Benefit Davis Residents?
Report Suggests That Some Residents will Remain on Groundwater While Others Will Move to Riverwater –
The Vanguard received an anonymous letter purporting to be from a member of city staff. Along with this note was a letter from Alan Pryor to Interim Public Works Director Bob Clarke dated March 1, 2011. The anonymous letter claimed Mr. Pryor’s letter was sent to the council and also the Natural Resources Commission.
According to the letter “not everyone in Davis is going to get the “good” water.” Writes the anonymous author, “He [Mr. Pryor] explained that some people in West and South Davis will still only get well water, yet pay twice as much while the rich folks in Mace Ranch get all the good, low TDS [total dissolved solids] water for their yards and homes.”
While it remains a clear Plan B, it is becoming increasingly clear that Governor Jerry Brown is moving closer to a contingency that would circumvent the need for two-thirds legislative support and move toward spending the millions it would require to circulate a petition for the November ballot, placing his plan before the voters at that point.
Much has been made on these pages about the fact that the DA has a tendency to bring some rather problematic cases to trial. For the most part the DA loses these cases, but they exact a toll nonetheless, as we saw in the case of Fernando Ortega who faced criminal charges stemming from what was largely explicable, by the fact he was carrying a truck battery and had a number of tools on him at the time he encountered Woodland Police.
Someone wanted outrage last week. Well, there is plenty of outrage to go around, especially with two reports showing the utter devastation that budget cuts and our economic downturn have caused to our educational system, both K-12 and the UC system.
Jury Ultimately Believes Man over Police Officer, But It Is Ultimately a Costly Experience – 
Given the road work that is either planned or has occurred on Second, Third, and Fifth Streets thanks largely to grant funding, it might seem inconceivable that Davis roadways are reaching critical levels of maintenance. But that is exactly what we face.
When a long list of Choices for Healthy Aging (CHA) released their co-written op-ed a week ago they were in effect raising a white flag in trying to influence the development at ConAgra.
Someone wrote with regards to the threats to UC Davis facing serious cutbacks due to the budget, “This is too bad, no doubt. But I think Californians need to realize that the State does not OWE them a college education.”
It was a strange vote and discussion on the County’s Climate Action Plan. It is important to understand that the County’s Climate Action Plan only addresses “greenhouse gas emissions within the unincorporated area, which has seen very little population growth since 1990 as a result of the County’s historic land use policies.”
After some lengthy discussions about the interrogation process, following the conviction of Bennie Moses for the rape of his daughter over a nine-year period, it seems that there is a need to revisit the issue of false confessions.
Balancing the Budget on the Backs of the Poor, who Rely on Medi-Cal, and Students – 
In a move that will have huge policy consequences for the City of Davis and other local communities, the California Public Employees’ Retirement System board voted on Wednesday to retain the 7.75 percent assumed rate of return.
Jury Acquits Woman of Drug Possession, Transportation, Despite Police Finding Drugs on Her – 
By E. Roberts Musser – 
A Field Poll released Wednesday indicates the voters are willing to consider an extension of the tax measures that Governor Jerry Brown has proposed, as a means for closing the deficit and avoiding an addition 11 to 14 billion dollars in cuts to the state budget.