Commentary: Delaying Decision on Fluoride the Wrong Move For City
It may be tempting to want to put off the decision on whether or not to fluoridate the city’s water supply until the decision absolutely has to be made. After all, it figures to be a bitterly divisive and emotional issue. With so many more pressing issues on the table from the city’s perspective, an ugly fight on fluoridation is the last thing they want.
The problem is that as long as the issue of fluoridation hangs over the water project, the water project itself – facing lawsuits and a possible initiative – might be in trouble.
When Eric Holder announced sweeping changes to the federal government’s enforcement of drug laws and its pursuit of mandatory minimums for non-violent, small quantity drug possession offenses, perhaps the biggest change came two weeks later when Mr. Holder informed the states that the government would allow the states to create a regime that would regulate and implement the ballot initiatives that legalized the use of marijuana for adults.
It has become one of the more contentious issues in the city of Davis with a contingent of supporters in the heatlh community solidly behind the idea of adding fluoride to the city’s water supply, while another group of activists is strongly against the proposal, calling the use of fluoride in the water supply inefficient, ineffective and quite possibly hazardous to other aspects of one’s health.
New staff can often be forgiven for making proposed changes when they lack the context by which the status quo was created, or lack the context of the storm they may produce by proposing the changes. However, the staff members who prepared the recommendation that the city increase contribution limits were on staff in 
By Matt Williams 
On July 30, 2006, I took one small step in creating a free blog using free blogger software. I did so for very specific reasons that have long since been rendered irrelevant by history. But I also did so for reasons that stay with us today – I wanted to create a news source that covered the stories that other papers and news entities were not covering, to be able to analyze stories from different perspectives and in greater detail, and to foster community discussion all in the furtherance of exposing the dark underbelly of what purported to be a progressive community.
By Val Dolcini 
By Catherine McKnight
By Matt Williams 
by Rob White
The Vanguard Court Watch 3rd Annual Dinner & Awards Ceremony has been set for Saturday, November 9th at the Davis Veterans Memorial Center starting at 5PM. The theme this year is “Restorative Justice & Reforming the Judicial System.”
On August 26, Attorney Michael Harrington filed a motion arguing that “it is appropriate, in resolving the issues involving this Proposition 218 challenge to the City’s actions and omissions, that extra record evidence be used (and) that plaintiffs have an opportunity to provide Expert Reports, both to support its position and to refute the City’s position.”
In what could be another defining moment in the burgeoning Fourth District Assembly race, Yolo County Supervisor Jim Provenza, himself at one point considered a frontrunner, announced today that he has endorsed Davis Mayor Pro Tem Dan Wolk for State Assembly.
Three weeks today, a Yolo County jury acquitted Regina Roxanne Perez of perjury after she had been a prospective juror in the 2011-12 Marco Topete death penalty case. Ms. Perez and her attorney, Alin Cintean, addressed the Vanguard Court Watch Council last Sunday in front of at least 50 community members at the Davis Public Library.