Third Part of the Candidates Forum Including Affordable Housing and POU
The five candidates for Davis City Council met on Wednesday evening for the first time in a…
Analysis: Survey Bolsters Concern Parcel Tax Would Not Pass This Fall
In yesterday’s column, we summarized the Davis Downtown’s survey on the fiscal crisis. At the outset of…
Davis City Council Candidates Question 1
Editor’s Note: We are republishing this from last week. Every week on Monday the Vanguard will send…
Vanguard Commentary: Restoring Trust
One conversation I find myself rather consistently having is the fundamental lack of trust that segments of…
Sunday Commentary: City Settles for the Small ‘w’ on Sales Tax Ballot Measure
In an ideal world, the city of Davis would have liked the clean victory on Measure with…
Davis’ Inexorable Slide Into Municipal Bankruptcy
By Michael Bisch Whether Davis’ slide into bankruptcy is impossible to stop or prevent is debatable. What’s…
PG&E/ IBEW Poll Shows Davis Residents Opposed to POU
Back in February the Vanguard reported about a poll conducted within the city of Davis about PG&E…
Judge to Hear Measure O Challenge on Tuesday
by Jose Granda and Thomas Randall (Editor’s note: this was submitted as a press release, the Vanguard…
Sunday Commentary: My Half-Cent Thought – Much Ado About Nothing
The city of Davis is in fiscal crisis the likes of which we have really not seen…
Opponents of Sales Tax Challenge Ballot Question in Court
It was nearly two weeks ago that, challenged by citizens and Davis Enterprise columnist Bob Dunning that…
Caution: City In Danger of Losing Message on Fiscal Crisis
I could not disagree with much, if anything, that Robin Wiener wrote today in the Davis Enterprise….
A Look at the City’s Sales Tax Revenue History
There have been repeated requests from the city to provide sales tax data. We present the data…
Analysis: Economic Development Critical Component for Fiscal Sustainability
It was last spring when the city of Davis finally rolled out the proposal for Mace 391. …
Vanguard Analysis: City Modifies Retiree Medical Vesting Plan
When the city approved the 2009-2010 MOUs, all of them included a revision to the Retiree Health…
Vanguard Commentary: What Kind of Community Do We Want to Live In?
On these pages I have shared my view a number of times. I believe that the city…
Sunday Commentary: Reversing Myself on Sales Tax Measure
Back in February, about a month ago, I came out against the sales tax measure in June. …
Participate in Poll on Fiscal Crisis
The Davis Downtown has created a community service project to determine what Davis residents know about the…
Council Cleans Up Ballot Language on Measure O
On Tuesday night, council believed it put to rest concerns raised by Bob Dunning and others that…
Another Unjustified Sales Tax
By Jose Granda and Thomas Randall No sooner the Davis School District put to sleep the parcel…
Vanguard Analysis: Dunning Begins Attack on Sales Tax Ordinance
The ink was barely dry on the Davis City Council’s proposed Measure O, the tax ordinance, when…
