Davis Should Develop New Ideas for Economic Redevelopment?
COMMENTARY: West Sacramento Advisory Measure a Good Model To Start Looking At.
In this morning’s paper, three business leaders in Davis once again speak out against the proposed changes to the minimum square footage of proposed retail pads adjacent to Target. The developer is proposing a reduction in the minimum square footage from 10,000 to 2,000, and 8,000 to 4,000 for apparel stores.
“He wants a greater percentage of the pad buildings’ square footage be available for neighborhood uses and quick-serve restaurants,” Jennifer Anderson, Maria Ogyrdziak, and Alzada Knickerbocker write. “On the face of it, the request sounds benign enough.”
COMMENTARY – The WAC did on Thursday what it had previously managed to avoid – a heavily-divided vote. It may not be the most core issue, but DBO, and the question of public versus private is perhaps one of the top three secondary issues in the question on water.
The Davis School Board decided to take a rare risk when they put Measure E on the ballot. It was largely untested. Measure A, the measure that the new parcel tax in part renews, passed with the barest of margins just last year in 2011. And Measure E not only renews the current parcel tax, but there is a good possibility that it will expand it, should the Governor’s Tax Measure, Proposition 30, not pass in November.
If attorneys for the family of Luis Gutiérrez, shot and killed in Woodland on April 30, 2009, by three Yolo County Sheriff’s Deputies, are to make their case, three independent witnesses for the plaintiffs, who witnessed various stages of the pursuit and eventual shooting, will be critical.
In the press conference at the Quad on Wednesday, Ian Lee spoke. He was a first-year student, two months into college, when he got involved in the protest that would ultimately alter his life.
By Kim Floyd – 
This past weekend, the Vanguard rated the Council’s 2011 budget as its top achievement. This drew some questions, in part because, while the council indeed hold firm in the face of 150 angry city employees packed into a hot council chambers, the city only realized about one million of the $2.5 million in cuts as actual savings.
It has been a long time since California has been on the forefront of anything in this nation. However, as many other states have moved to making voting more difficult, enacting draconian if not disenfranchising laws, California in the past week has moved in the other direction, enacting same-day voter laws, online registration, and other innovations.
The news story that the Vanguard ran on Tuesday regarding the knife-slashing attack on Angelique Topete raised a number of questions. Unfortunately, the public remains ill-served by a District Attorney’s office that refuses to communicate with a media entity because that media entity has leveled criticism toward them.
On Monday, October 1, 2012, the Davis Vanguard and Davis Media Access (DMA) will be hosting a candidates forum for the Davis School Board candidates, to be held in the Harper Junior High Multipurpose room. The doors open at 6:30 PM and the forum begins at 7:00 PM.
For years the overwhelming majority of voters favored the death penalty, to the point where it became a bit of a political third rail that Democratic politicians would not touch. They would either proclaim their support for the death penalty, or, such was the case with Attorney Generals Jerry Brown and Kamala Harris, both pledged to uphold the law despite personal opposition to the death penalty.
Last fall, when a Woodland police lieutenant took money from the Woodland Police Supervisors Association funds, the DA’s office was quick to charge him with embezzlement even though the defendant believed no crime occurred, as the money was re-paid through payroll deductions.
Research Inconclusive and Claim Ignores Problems with Coercive Plea Bargaining and Wrongful Convictions –