Council Unanimously Approves Binding Vote For March Election
The council was out of time if they wanted the measure on the March 2013 ballot. Staff argued, at least persuasively enough, despite the fact that there was no cost-sharing agreement with Woodland and no rate recommendations from the Water Advisory Committee, that another delay in the election would not only likely spell the end of the partnership with Woodland, but delay the project by another year.
The result of that uncertainty pushed the council forward. It was clear from the start that the council would go to binding language. Brett Lee asked for language that would simply authorize the council to move forward with the project with few specifics in the actual ballot language. However, the city would be tied to the agreed-upon rates that would concurrently be approved through the Prop 218 process.
Jerry Brown worked hard on Tuesday to postpone a vote on fee increases in the UC system.
In the immediate aftermath of the loss of Proposition 34, the ballot measure that would have ended California’s death penalty and replaced it with life without parole, its ballot sponsors took solace in the relative closeness of the election.
Two years ago, the Yolo County Board of Supervisors approved a permit that would allow the construction of a 365-foot radio tower in the Yolo County Central Landfill by Results Radio.
For years since California passed its medical marijuana law, the federal government, often to the bewilderment of many who wonder about the prioritization of resources, has battled the state on the issue of medical marijuana dispensaries, often conducting raids and arresting providers of marijuana to cancer and other terminal patients.
Last spring, the council had the option of at least discussing whether or not to reconsider the city attorney contract. They declined to even pull it off the dissent calendar, even though there was a rising chorus of complaints in the community.
By Catherine Portman and Pam Nieberg
Conservatives for weeks were convinced that there was going to be a Romney landslide, or at least victory, based on a bunch of flawed assumptions and a final decision that when science tells you something that you don’t want to hear, the science is wrong – which has some serious implications for climate change at the very least.
In 2007, 2008, 2011 and now twice in 2012 the voters in Davis have stepped up to support quality education. Some people want to suggest that Measure E was a nailbiter. It wasn’t a nailbiter.
The polls were not looking good for Prop 30, as support was dwindling below the supposed magical 50% line, according to polls released just a couple of weeks before the election. But when the Field Poll was released, it seemed that the support for the tax measure was holding.
Human trafficking is a growing problem and Californians overwhelmingly supported the passage of Prop 35, which created harsher sentencing for those involved in human trafficking.
By Bill Storm, Ingrid Salim and Greg Brucker 
COMMENTARY – Even a free society has to draw lines. We allow freedom of speech to dictate most rules of elections, and rightly so. However, we also assume that once the voters go into the polling place, they need to be given the time and space to make their own freely-formed decision.
For at least the past year, I have believed that this election would be a repeat of 2004 except in the other direction, and for the most part all year that has played out. Never has that been more evident than the initial post-election analysis, where we see that the Obama team utilized their ground game to perfection to do what everyone believed impossible – pull in new voters and similar numbers of blacks and youths as 2008.