Column: View From West Davis
This is my weekly column of thoughts and tidbits from the week that has passed. A little…
Commentary: Subcomittee and Staff Look Ill-prepared in Anti-Discrimination Ordinance Deliberations
In many ways this was entirely of their own doing. In April, Councilmember Lamar Heystek pulled a…
Council Deliberations on Anti-Discrimination Ordinance
For those who missed the Davis City Council Meeting from Tuesday evening, here are some of the…
STUNNING REVERSAL BY COUNCIL ON ANTI-DISCRIMINATION ORDINANCE
“Fait accompli,” were the words I used to close my remarks in yesterday’s column to describe the…
Commentary: Council and Staff Try To Justify Weakening of Historic Civil Rights Ordinance
If you read the Davis Enterprise last night, you would be led to believe that the historic,…
Souza and Asmundson Propose to Strip Civil Rights Protections from Seminal City Ordinance
The Davis City Council in 1986 passed one of the most sweeping anti-discrimination ordinances in the country….
Victims of Racial Profiling Reluctant to Step Forward
A year ago this past week, over 150 UC Davis students and Davis residents, most of them…
Malcolm X and Modern Community Civil Rights Leaders Honored in Davis
In 2005, the Davis City Council acting on a recommendation from the Davis Human Relations commission passed…
Civil Rights Fighters Honored in Davis Tuesday Night
At Tuesday’s City Council Meeting, a number of community leaders in civil rights were honored with Thong…
HRC Gets an Earful on Race Relations at the High School
For the first time since the Davis Human Relations Commission was disbanded and then reconstituted, the HRC…
In Tribute to Mel Trujillo
My friends, as many of you know, Davis lost a dear and treasured resident of its community…
Commentary: School Board Makes It Right in Contrast to the City Council
As the issue of the Davis High School student gets resolved in a rapid and largely acceptable…
City Continues Move toward Stripping Anti-Discrimination Ordinance of Key Power
When the Davis City Council in June of 2006 put the Human Relations Commission on hiatus, one…
Souza Admits “Inconvenient Truth” Racial Profiling Does Exist in Davis
It was somewhat surprising to see in the California Aggie on Tuesday that City Councilmember Stephen Souza…
Commentary: Whither Human Relations Commission
Somebody asked me last week if I was planning to go to Thursday night’s Human Relations Commission…
MLK Day in Davis
One of my first memories of MLK Day was actually before it became a national holiday. I…
MLK Event Tonight
Time: 5:30 to 9 PM TONIGHT LOCATION: Cantina del Cabo ADDRESS: 139 G St. COST: Tickets are…
Special Thoughts on Martin Luther King Jr Day
The following is the closing remarks in a speech called “Our God is Marching On.” It was…
Another Alleged Racial Profiling Incident in Davis
While most of us were enjoying our Christmas holiday, David Johnson was pulled over by the Davis…
Examining African American Arrest Rates in Davis
Yesterday we reported briefly on the disproportionate amount of times African Americans were arrested in San Francisco…
