My View: The Fall of Nathan Ballard
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Nathan Ballard played a prominent role in the failed 2005 Measure…
Guest Commentary: The Remain-in-Mexico Policy is Illegal and Unspeakably Cruel
By Omar Jadwat After a whirlwind of court actions this month, the Biden administration will be forced…
Commentary: Community Versus Students, This Time It Was in Berkeley, Next Time…
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor It is an issue that figures to resonate in places like…
Commentary: ADDA Attorney Attacks Gascón’s Reforms Using a Poor Understanding of Data Analysis
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Los Angeles, CA – As someone trained in the use of…
Commentary: Some Support for SB 9 – But Does It Go Far Enough?
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Sacramento, CA – In his column for CalMatters, Dan Walters, points…
Guest Commentary: Voters Want Progressive Prosecutors; Biden Must Follow Through on Promise to Guide Reform.
Reform-minded district attorneys are getting elected across the USA. Now’s the time for Biden to set national…
Monday Morning Thoughts: People Are Not Taking COVID Seriously Enough – And Some of Them Are Dying
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Nashville-based conservative radio talk show host Phil Valentine was like any…
Guest Commentary: All Lives Can’t Matter Until Black Lives Matter
by Tiffany Foster Some people say all lives matter and they do. But All Lives Matter erases…
Sunday Commentary: Excited Delirium, That’s Some BS
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Antioch, CA – When I spoke on Friday afternoon with longtime…
Sunday Commentary: Bringing Back RDA Would Help the Housing Crisis Along with Moves like SB 9
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor At the start here, I will say the housing crisis is…
Looking Back: Two Unusual Wrongful Conviction Twists
By Jeffrey Deskovic “Looking back” will feature reprints of articles that Jeff previously wrote while a columnist…
My View: We Need to Think of SB 9 As an Equity Issue More than a Housing One
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor My view on SB 9 continues to be that the bill…
Letter: We Stand With Afghanistan
by Harris Razaqi We, the Afghan Student Association at UC Davis and its allies, express our concerns…
Commentary: Will a Speeding Crackdown in Davis Disproportionately Impact Black and Brown People? History Says It Will
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – Before the Nextdoor admins removed the discussion there…
Commentary: SB 9 Moves Closer, but the Debate Continues
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Sacramento, CA – SB 9 passed the Assembly Appropriations Committee on…
When All Hell Broke Loose: The Year of Coronavirus at San Quentin
By Kevin D. Sawyer Prisoners inside San Quentin Prison who survived the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 weren’t…
Guest Commentary: Stories of Abuses in Prisons
By Cameron Washington The stories of incarcerated individuals make it clear that jails and prisons are incapable…
Commentary: No, Reform DAs Don’t Go on Fox News
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Woodland, CA – The Yolo County DA’s Office has been pushing…
Guest Commentary: Sutter Tree Cutting Begins at Sutter ER – I Am Heartbroken
By Alan Hirsch Tuesday they cut at least 100 trees at Sutter hospital—50 of which are unrelated…
Reflections of a Vanguard Intern: A Rookie Cop, an Expert Witness, and the Sway of Police Testimony
By Fiona Davis SACRAMENTO, CA – This past week, while assigned to monitor several departments in the…