Don Saylor: “I feel disrespected and treated without dignity”
Late Tuesday night, and actually more accurately early Wednesday morning, the Davis City Council had a long…
Cannery Park Project on Hold
In proceedings that quickly turned contentious and then went from contentious to downright ludicrous the council put…
New Chief Candidate Favors Civilian Police Oversight
Davis got to meet the prime candidate for the open Police Chief position last night down at…
Past Hiring Process for Police Chief Vastly Different
In lieu of the very secretive search for a new Davis police chief–one that has been defended…
Staff Recommends Council Stall Cannery Park for another Shot At Covell Village
While the proposals in the County Supervisors General Plan update have rightly gotten much of the attention…
Commentary: Police Chief Hiring Process Lacks Public Input
Last week there was an announcement from the City of Davis that Seattle Police Captain Landy Black…
Looking Yet Again At the Water Issue
I spent quite a deal of time over the past two weeks looking into the water issue,…
Police Chief Candidate to Visit Davis
According to a release from the City of Davis, one of the applicants for the Police Chief…
General Plan Steering Committee Profile: Brenda Little
We continue with our on-going profile of members of the Davis General Plan Steering Committee by looking…
A fresh look at the Ombudsman and Police Oversight in 2007
Today’s Sacramento Bee contains a nice piece on the Ombudsman Bob Aaronson (http://www.sacbee.com/257/story/116710.html). This seems like a…
Commentary: City Staff, Is the System Broken?
On Monday after my article appeared on the Employee Assistance Plan (EAP) situation involving a city staffer…
2008 City Council Candidates
In order to regain a majority on the council, Progressives are going to need to hold onto…
Tracing the recent history of the water supply project
A review of a variety of staff reports, public workshop notes, and newspaper articles reveals a rather…
City Staffer Botches Testimony To Council on EAP
The People’s Vanguard of Davis has learned that when Davis City Human Resources Administrator, Melissa Chaney, told…
General Plan Steering Committee Profile: Jay Gerber
Continuing our periodic series profiling some of the members of the General Plan Housing Element, we look…
Talk is Cheap, We Need Real Environmentalism
It was interesting reading the Davis Enterprise on Thursday evening about the City Council’s overtures toward a…
The Future of Reparking in Davis
On August 14, 2006 the city implement strict rules against “reparking” based on a new city ordinance….
A further examination of the Eleanor Roosevelt Circle Affordable Housing Project
A few weeks ago we had a critical article on the Senior Affordable Housing project, Eleanor Roosevelt…
Guest Commentary: Addressing the Issue of Homelessness in Davis
The critical resource that the homeless of Davis is housing. It is a commonly known fact that…
Briefs
I wanted to get this up here as well, following up on the profile we did earlier…
