Council Designates November as Native American Heritage Month
The Davis City Council recognized the month of November as Native American Heritage Month. As the proclamation…
Packed House Hears LWV Forum on Housing Discrimination, Community Housing Needs
It was nearing the end of the night and the packed house at Davis Community Church of…
Sunday Commentary: Freedom of Dissent, Muhammed Ali and Gloria Partida
The First Amendment to the US Constitution provides for the freedom of speech… “congress shall make no…
Commentary: First Goal of District Elections – Don’t Undermine the System Before It Gets Implemented
I have stated a number of times already that I would like to see three specific things…
Sunday Commentary: The Story of District Elections Is Demographic Shift in Davis
In January 1996, a governance committee appointed by the city council recommended, by a 14-5 vote, that…
Sunday Commentary: White Fragility Underlies the Debate over District Elections
For years, I heard complaints from people of color, both seeing it on surveys and hearing it…
Commentary: What Will Be the Impact of District Elections?
I think it is a reasonable question – to ask why the College Republicans have pushed for…
Monday Morning Thoughts: Analysis of District Elections Misses the Motivation of the College Republicans
Bob Dunning’s column this weekend lights into Matt Rexroad. It’s not that we necessarily blame him for…
Guest Commentary: ‘The Other Davis’
By Matt Williams For reasons that are wholly unrelated to what I found, I was looking through…
My View: Race Really Is the Driving Force in Politics
A number of commenters and even political leaders have attempted to downplay the issue of race in…
Commentary: Council Expresses Frustration, but Does the Right Thing on District Elections
There are a lot of reasonable questions that the community can ask at this point – one…
Letter: Rexroad Insists on November 2020 for Elections
By Matt Rexroad (Editor’s Note: The following is the letter sent on July 25 by Matt Rexroad…
Commentary: Council Has a Lot of Decisions to Make Tonight
The potential change to district elections has probably caught a lot of people in this community off…
Letter: Take Action Locally on Gun Violence
By the Davis Phoenix Coalition After yet another deadly week of gun violence, other nations are warning…
City Changes Course on Demographer Following Report
Following the Vanguard’s report on Friday highlighting very recent problems with the company National Demographics Corporation (NDC)…
Proposed Demographer Firm Found to Have Fabricated Data in North Carolina Two Weeks Ago
Meeting Set For Tuesday on Transitioning to District Elections After weeks of speculation following the release of…
Analysis: Rexroad Believes He Has Enough to Prove RPV in Davis
Under the California Voting Rights Act (CVRA), a political entity such as the city of Davis is…
Analysis and Commentary: First Look at the City Demographic Data Shows Some Troubling Findings
I finally got ahold of the data I had been wanting to see – precinct level data…
Guest Commentary: Moving to District Elections
by Dillan Horton In a democracy it is absolutely crucial that every person has equal representation. This…
Monday Morning Thoughts: A Lot of Unfounded Arguments against District Elections
One official from the city told me a few weeks ago that they had thought the school…
