Guest Commentary: Bringing Restorative Justice to the Manhattan DA’s Office
By Janos Marton James Berish was the first person in North Carolina to go through a restorative…
My View: Is Reisig Starting to Try to Shift to the Middle? We Think Not
By David M. Greenwald A few weeks ago Jonathan Raven, the Chief Deputy DA in the Yolo…
Guest Commentary: Authoritarianism Is Knocking, Don’t Let It In
by Scott Steward Ragsdale Scott Atlas, a radiologist, a frequent contributor to Fox, with rudimentary training in…
Commentary: A Letter That Wasn’t, Attacks in the New District Election Era, and a Fumbling by the Local Paper
By David M. Greenwald We will probably never know why the UC Davis College Republicans and their…
Guest Submission: Sierra Club Endorses No on Measure B – No on DISC in Davis, CA
Submitted by Alan Pryor Citing grounds of “excessive traffic, greenhouse gas emissions, and poor land-use and planning”,…
Guest Commentary: The Law Enforcement Violence Trump Won’t Talk About
Law enforcement officers have used sharpshooters to maim people, swept protesters away in unmarked cars, and brutally…
Guest Commentary: Toward a New Model of Policing for Davis
A Letter to the Public Safety Joint Subcommittee by Morgan Poindexter, Julea Shaw, Aarthi Sekar, Rowan Boswell,…
Sunday Commentary: Planning Commission Discussion Highlights Huge Issues in Our Planning System
By David M. Greenwald It was a 4-3 vote that was actually far closer than even the…
Guest Commentary: Our Community’s Struggle Over Symbols
By Gloria Partida This week we saw the Milwaukee Bucks boycott after the shooting of Jacob Blake….
Looking Back: Bullet Lead Analysis: A Junk Science That Has Helped to Convict Thousands
“Looking back” will feature reprints of articles that Jeff previously wrote while a columnist at The Westchester…
Majority of American Jews Sign Full Page NYT Ad – ‘Unequivocally: Black Lives Matter’
In a powerful message, a joint letter was signed by over 600 multiracial Jewish denominations, organizations, and…
Analysis: Looking at the Case against DISC
By David M. Greenwald With the election coming up in just over two months, and ballots dropping…
Commentary: Is University Commons Really Unaffordable?
by David M. Greenwald One of the arguments that has been made time and again by opponents…
Commentary: Not Business As Usual As NBA Players Potentially Stop Their Season in the Wake of the Blake Shooting
By David M. Greenwald It was a moment that had seemed to pass. In the wake of…
Guest Commentary: Bad Law and Failed Order
by Miriam Aroni Krinsky and Roy L. Austin, Jr As the Republican National Convention plays out this…
Monday Morning Thoughts: Faith Leaders Are Well-Meaning but Don’t Understand Fiscal Pitfalls of Affordable Housing
by David M. Greenwald The faith leaders write: that they are disappointment at the council 3-2 vote…
Guest Commentary: Defunding the Police Will Actually Make Us Safer
By Paige Fernandez Almost exactly six years after NYPD officers murdered Eric Garner in New York City,…
Sunday Commentary: We Have a Chance to Close the Housing Gap
By David M. Greenwald Measure J has sometimes become a rather convenient target for the housing problems…
Guest Commentary: Davis Religious Leaders Imagine What Affordable Housing Could Look Like In Davis
At the Davis City Council Meeting on Tuesday, August 18, a 3-2 vote approved the University Commons…
Looking Back: The Practice of Using Technicalities to Fight against Innocence Claims Must Cease
Jeffrey Deskovic speaking in Davis last year at the Annual Vanguard Event “Looking back” will feature…
