Monday Morning Thoughts: Do We Really Need a Citizen’s Commission for This?
Yesterday, Matt Williams published a guest commentary that outlined what he believed to be several “deficiencies” with…
Guest Commentary: Staff Report for Tuesday’s Council Consideration of District Election Has Major Deficiencies
by Matt Williams The Staff Report for the consideration of district elections omits several important considerations, which…
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 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…
Commentary: Rexroad Letter Shows School District Did the Right Thing
The school board took a lot of heat for making the decision to go to district elections. …
Commentary and Analysis: Why Davis Should Go to District Elections in November 2020
All indications suggest but do not confirm that a resident of South Davis is behind the filing…
Rexroad Demands Davis Shift to District Elections for Council Races
It looks like by 2022 both the school district and city will have gone to district elections. …
Dillan Horton Becomes the First Candidate for Davis City Council
In what figures to be another packed ballot, Dillan Horton has thrown his name into the hat…
Monday Morning Thoughts: Despite Heated Rhetoric, There Might Not Be Much to the Campaign Finance Allegations
As I wrote up the article on the city council’s public announcement of closed section actions of…
City Forwards No on L Complaint to DA and FPPC
City Has Now Forwarded Complaints on Both Sides On Tuesday, the council held a closed session meeting…
Guest Commentary: Laundered Campaign Contributions Appear to Have Been Made to the Yes on Measure L Campaign
by Alan Pryor In previous articles pertaining to the financial disclosures of the Yes on Measure L/West…
Guest Commentary: Yes on Measure L Campaign Violates FPPC Disclosure Laws
Campaign Failed to Report Davis Vanguard Ad Expenditures and Provided Inadequate Disclosure of other “Non-Monetary” Contributions and…
Guest Commentary: Yes on Measure L Campaign has “Unclean Hands” when Alleging Improper Financial Disclosures by No on Measure L
by Alan Pryor The “unclean hands” legal doctrine is where one party in a legal dispute argues…
Analysis: No Major Changes as the Election Results Are Finalized
On Friday, 24 days after the election was held, the county finally wrapped up their count in…
Commentary: The Question Now Is Whether Measure R Works
Now that 2018’s political season is over, we can step back and start evaluating things. When we…
Analysis: There Was Something Different about the Measure L Campaign
While some have made a big deal out of the $155 thousand spent by the Measure L…
Analysis: Why WDAAC Was Able to Win and Win Overwhelmingly
A year ago, the question on everyone’s mind was whether any Measure R project could pass a…
WDAAC Cruises to an Easy Approval (Updated)
For the second straight time, the voters of Davis, who rejected the first three Measure J/ R…
