Open Letter to Housing Element Steering Committee:
Davis Does Not Want Development on Covell Village Site Dear Chair Kevin Wolf and Members of the…
City Retiree Medical Benefits: Smart Financing or Voodoo Economics?
In the City Council this past Tuesday, there was expected to be a routine explanation of the…
Thursday Briefs and Events Announcements
Last week’s peace rally draws criticism A letter to the editor last night from our old friend…
Council Majority Votes to Maintain One-Percent Growth For Davis
by Simon Efrein At the recent Davis City Council Meeting, a side debate emerged during discussion of…
Housing Element Committee Agrees to Look At Covell Site for Future Development
Hold onto your hats folks, if last night was any indication of whats to come it is…
Word To The Wise: The HOA – Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid!
By E. A. Roberts______________________________________ Do you live in a residence governed by a homeowners association, also informally…
Guest Commentary: Enacting a Living Wage in Davis to Protect and Preserve our Downtown
by Lamar Heystek As I was poised to take office as the youngest Davis City Councilmember since…
Commentary: Civility and All Yada-Yada-Yada
I have no idea how much the city of Davis spent on their Transactional Effectiveness Sessions particularly…
Analysis: A look at the Council Majority
Every so often, a good letter to the editor of the Davis Enterprise provides some food for…
DA Office’s Does Not Seek Charges After Assault on DPD Officers
The Vanguard has learned that on August 1, 2007, a 43 year-old homeless man was involved in…
Commentary: Interesting Split on the Cannery Park Property
Friday’s Davis Enterprise captured an interesting debate within the progressive community as to what ought to be…
Commentary: A One-Year Review of Police Oversight in Davis
One year ago from August 24, 2006 to August 30, 2006, the fledgling Vanguard in the wake…
Interview with Davis Police Ombudsman Bob Aaronson
Last year around this time, the City of Davis hired its first Police Ombudsman Bob Aaronson. Aaronson…
Dunning: Populist or Social Conservative or Perhaps Both?
For those who read the Sacramento Bee article on Tuesday morning on Davis Enterprise Columnist Bob Dunning, it was an interesting read.
The article posits the almost existential question of who and what is Bob Dunning, and the answer is that he seems to be almost conflicted.
“So which is he? Closet conservative or closet liberal? The answer is: both and neither. In other words, nuance and ambiguity win out. Even Dunning says he’s conflicted when asked about his world view and political leanings. (For the record: Yolo County’s voter registration lists him as a Democrat.)”
Councilmember Heystek Discusses His First Year on the Davis City Council
In the latest in my series of interviews, I discussed with Davis City Councilmember Lamar Heystek his…
Commentary: The Bulk of the Buzayan Federal Lawsuit Moves Forward
In late June, it was reported that U.S. District Court Judge England dismissed a single cause of…
Commentary: Do not be charging me with NIMBYism When I Oppose Your 600K Housing Development
Recently I was reading an article in Mother Jones of all places that caught my eye. The…
Davis City Council Remains Silent as Sacramento Presses for Answers on WNV Spraying
According to an article that appeared in the Sacramento Bee on Thursday, Sacramento City Councilman Rob Fong…
Errors in an Article on the UC Davis Sociology Department Lead to Questions about the Davis Enterprise
On July 20, 2007 the Davis Enterprise ran an article, “Sociology courses canceled – UC Davis instructor…
Should Davis Adopt an Urban Limit Line?
During the course of the debate last year over the creation of open space potentially on the…
