2008 Vanguard City Council Scorecard
Here is the Vanguard’s 2008 City Council Scorecard. For the first time, the Vanguard has gone through…
Here is the Vanguard’s 2008 City Council Scorecard. For the first time, the Vanguard has gone through…
Target Cuts Deal with EPA to Proceed with Project on January 5, 2009 The Vanguard has learned…
By E.A. Roberts
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On December 4, 2008, I had the privilege of attending the eighth annual Heroes Award Luncheon, put on by the Yolo County Chapter of the American Red Cross. My youngest daughter Lara Musser was one among the group of heroes being honored. For the holiday season, I thought I would describe this life affirming event, that was so uplifting and restored my faith in human courage and sacrifice. When necessary, ordinary citizens will do whatever it takes to save the life of another.
In January of 2007, the Vanguard featured an article entitled: “Tracing the recent history of the water supply project.” In it, we argued that there was a series of decisions that changed the trajectory of water policy to become a far more expansive and more expensive project than the original course of action. The remarkable feature is that at no point was a decision actually made to proceed with this project. Instead, there were a series of staff recommendations approved by council to explore various options which lumped together became a decision.
This is very important in trying to understand where we are right now. There is a basic inertial quality to this issue that is rather remarkable. There are basically two forces driving the process, neither of which are necessarily council approval. First, the concern that we will lose our place in line. Second, the concern that down the line the costs of construction will increase if we delay now.
One of the issues came up last week with regards to the Budget discussion, was that of…
Last week the Vanguard covered the city’s “Budget Workshop” where Assistant City Manager Paul Navazio presented the…
On Wednesday night, on KDRT 95.7 FM, Vanguard Radio had on three members from the group DANG–Davis…
The 2008 Elections saw Councilmember Don Saylor win the most votes to ascend to the position of…
Late on Tuesday night Bill Emlen recommended a change to the calendar on Ombudsman Bob Aaronson’s report…
At last night’s Davis City Council Meeting, the city of Davis was presented data by Finance Director…
In a surprising twist, the Davis Enterprise Editorial on Sunday Morning, “Contract Talks Should Be Open” called…
On July 14, 2008 the city of Davis official named Bob Aaronson, the city’s police ombudsman, as…
As a consent agenda item for Tuesday’s Davis City Council meeting, the Davis City Council will likely unanimously support a resolution to join an amicus brief petition to the Supreme Court to invalidate Proposition 8. Davis will join a growing list of cities that lack the resources to directly sue to challenge the adoption of Proposition as as the City and County of San Francisco, Santa Clara County and the City of Los Angeles did the day after the election.
On November 5, 2008 San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera joined Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo and Santa Clara County Council Anne Ravel in filing a petition for a writ of mandate with the California Supreme Court to invalidate Proposition 8, an initiative constitutional amendment that intends to strip gay and lesbian citizens of their fundamental right to marry in California.
I was reading a letter published in yesterday’s Davis Enterprise from the owner’s of Fleet Feet Sports…
During the course of the last Davis City Council campaign, one of the big debates was the…
Over the weekend the Davis Enterprise reported that the deal between Trader Joe’s and Radiological Associates of…
The Davis City Council eventually agreed by a 4-1 vote to go with City Manager Bill Emlen’s…
The issue of what should be done on the long-vacant Lewis-Cannery Property has been discussed at great…
We are Running Out of Usable Parcels for High-Tech by Sue Greenwald On Tuesday, the City Council…
Well Vanguardians, it is that time of year, Thanksgiving. As we have done the previous two years,…