My View: Shot in the Back – Autopsy Adds to Pressure on Sac PD
On Friday, the family of Stephon Clark released a private autopsy that undoubtedly will add fuel to…
Organic Waste: The Brown Bins Are Not the End of the Story
By Leanna Sweha The Davis organics collection program has been around for almost two years. Brown-top bins…
Letter: City Affordable Housing Program
By Michael Harrington Dear City Leaders: May I ask a simple question? If I want to advertise…
Letter: Opposition to Plaza 2555 and Mega-Dorms
The following is a letter to the Social Services Commission from Eileen Samitz, dated February 26, 2018,…
YOLO COUNTY SHERIFF, DISTRICT ATTORNEY and DISTRICT 3 SUPERVISOR CANDIDATE FORUM
HOSTED BY LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS (LWV) WEST SAC and DAVIS TUESDAY APRIL 3, 2018 7 –…
Planning Commission Shifts Gears in Their Recommendations on Dispensary Locations
When city staff went through and grouped the 13 applications for Conditional Use Permits (CUPs) into four…
Guest Commentary: Housing Affects Us All
By Don Gibson and Aaron Latta The housing crisis has hit a critical point. Everyone constantly quotes…
Commentary: Stephon Clark Death Exposes the Hard Truths about Sacramento and Beyond
Sacramento has had more than its share of police incidents, from the shooting deaths of Joseph Mann…
Poisoning the Census with Bias
By Davin Rosborough On Monday night, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that he will ask about…
Commentary: Inconvenient Truths for Air Quality Expert Cahill
What Cahill Omits from Two Articles is Telling On January 25, Dr. Thomas Cahill sent the Vanguard…
Sac DA Feeling the Heat as Protestors Demand She Charge SPD Officers with Murder of Unarmed Stephon Clark
By Crescenzo Vellucci SACRAMENTO – In just the 10 days since 22-year-old Stephon Clark was gunned down…
Commentary: How Prosecutors Can Serve on the Front Lines in the War against Wrongful Convictions
Yesterday I read an op-ed in the Cleveland newspaper where the head of the Innocence Project of…
Greyhound Must Stop Giving Border Patrol Permission to Conduct Bus Raids
(From Press Release) – Greyhound buses, once a symbol of travel on America’s vast highways, have become…
Commentary: Why Air Quality Concerns Should Not Drive Your Nishi Vote
Critics of Nishi warn that preliminary studies – insufficient to adequately test the impact of air quality…
Analysis: Taking Measure of Community Temperature on Lincoln40
When the city council met two weeks ago to ultimately approve Lincoln40, there were only five comments…
A Dispensary Pushes Back against City Staff Ranking
The Vanguard noted in yesterday’s article that city staff heavily weighed opposition from neighbors against applications for…
On Gun Control
By Louise Melling This past weekend, hundreds of thousands of protestors from around the country took to…
Commentary: Haunted by the Ghosts of Parkland
Last Friday, my grandmother turned 103 and we all flew out to Florida once again to visit…
Commentary: Should the Downtown Be the Location for Dispensaries?
This weekend, we inaccurately reported that the Planning Commission would approve up to four Conditional Use Permits…
Roots of Aggression – A Community Health Perspective
By Tia Will By coincidence our City Council meeting of 3/21, at which an ordinance was passed…
