Council To Begin Discussion on Davis’ Housing Needs
The question of whether and how much Davis needs to grow is rarely accompanied by the follow-up question: what type of housing needs and housing types the City of Davis needs in the foreseeable future.
In recent years, that conversation has been highjacked by special interest groups that purport to represent the aging population but are actually an astroturf group, designed to look like ordinary activists who are shilling for a specific type of housing on a specific parcel of land.
The Yolo County Grand Jury hammered the Winters School District for numerous violations in response to citizen complaints “regarding 2009/10 Board of Trustees’ actions at meetings and treatment of community members, particularly in response to the nonrenewal of a designated employee’s contract at the high school.”
In a 5-4 Decision determined by swing voter Justice Anthony Kennedy, the US Supreme Court cited “serious constitutional violations” in California’s overcrowded prisons and ordered the state to ease overcrowding by releasing tens of thousands of prisoners, if no other solution can be arrived at.
Nearly three months after first raising the issue, the City of Davis is going forward with its Proposition 218 Notice which will include proposed five-year utility rates for water and sanitary sewer, and one-year rates for sanitation to be effective on the December 2011 utility bill.
One of the key complaints against gang injunctions is the notion that people can be deprived of “lawful commonplace activity” without the due process of law.
We always were concerned that the new Target would bring crime into Davis, but this is a bit extreme.
I have long since ceased to care about people’s personal infidelity as it comes to politics. I understand people like to relate character to elected officials. Certainly when it comes to issues of public trust, like corruption in politics, character matters.
One of the not-so-subtle differences in this new council has been the willingness for the city to go to bat for its most vulnerable residents, even in the face of policy opposition from Union Pacific Railroad.
It is perhaps an oversimplified statement that those who have nothing to hide, hide nothing. But as the Vanguard closes in on five years examining public documents and scrutinizing the actions of local government, I think even from a political perspective it is best to lay all of the cards on the table and let the chips fall where they may.
Cutting the Ombudsman’s Salary Would Be Penny Wise But Pound Foolish – 
Part of the Governor’s plan for pension reform is to study a hybrid plan which would typically consister of a smaller defined benefit pension plan, which is currently utilized, combined with some sort of defined contribution plan, normally associated with 401(k)s.
In a move that surprised the judge and defense counsel, rather than turn over the phone to the defense, in the DA’s own office, Deputy District Attorney Sara Jacobsen dropped the charges in the Oscar Arreola case.
Woodland Facing Huge Cut Backs in Education as Davis Rescinds Its Layoffs – 
SPECIAL TO THE VANGUARD
An op-ed piece by the Innocence Project reminds us once again that the cost of a wrongful conviction is not merely that an innocent person is incarcerated for a crime not committed – a tremendous atrocity unto itself. But there is also the additional problem of the actual guilty party going free, free to possibly perpetrate a crime again.
Past Council Bears Huge Responsibility For Current Mess That Will Cause Public Services to Be Slashed – 