Gloria Partida joined the Vanguard for its monthly webinar and discussed a range of issues from housing to policing, homelessness, District Elections and much more. She also took questions from the audience for about 40 minutes.
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Greenwald is the founder, editor, and executive director of the Davis Vanguard. He founded the Vanguard in 2006. David Greenwald moved to Davis in 1996 to attend Graduate School at UC Davis in Political Science. He lives in South Davis with his wife Cecilia Escamilla Greenwald and three children.
California school districts are advising parents to ensure student immunizations are current for the forthcoming 2026-2027 academic year, a recommendation issued amid a documented resurgence of measles cases and a decline in overall immunization rates.
The Health Council of the Netherlands, following a comprehensive two-year review, affirmed the efficacy of gender-affirming care protocols, including the foundational Dutch Protocol, citing improved mental health outcomes and the non-neutrality of non-treatment. Concurrently, the United States has experienced a proliferation of legislative and judicial challenges to gender-affirming care, alongside increased political spending targeting transgender individuals and their medical access.
Sacramento County is scheduled to convene a public listening session on August 27 concerning its "Jail System Master Planning." The initiative has drawn criticism from author Mark Dempsey, who argues the county's framework disproportionately emphasizes carceral expansion while overlooking more cost-effective social services and crime prevention alternatives. Dempsey contends this approach neglects systemic issues, such as the detention of unconvicted individuals due to bail inability, advocating for solutions like supervised release and community-based programs.
Author Martin LeFevre's recent analysis examines the attainment of spiritual immortality through the transcendence of egoic consciousness and the cessation of self-identity, a process he contends must occur prior to physical demise.
A new Brookings Institution report, which analyzed public safety initiatives in Oakland, Chicago, and Washington, D.C., argues that sustainable public safety necessitates investment in neighborhood conditions and community-led prevention, moving beyond an exclusive reliance on traditional law enforcement strategies.
