My View: Media Botches LA Jail Story
Early this week, the media reported on a strange case where the LA Sheriff, Alex Villanueva, citing…
Guest Commentary: ARC Must Integrate Our City’s Exceptional Transportation System
By Joe Bolte The Aggie Research Campus SEIR forecasts that travel to the site will be overwhelmingly…
Guest Commentary: Mizrahi Jews Speak in Support of the California Ethnic Studies Curriculum
By Michal David and Shahar Zaken JIMENA’s response to the California Ethnic Studies model curriculum brings up…
Commentary: Yolo DA Continues to Cherrypick Bad Cases
by David Greenwald Data rather than anecdotes should be driving public policy decisions during this COVID-19 crisis. …
Commentary: Is It Time for Yolo to Re-Open?
The stats are sobering. The Chamber survey showed a huge number of businesses in Davis experiencing a…
Commentary: Does LA Sheriff’s Story Add Up about Intentional Infection at Jail?
The story made headlines across the country—LA County Sheriff Alex Villanueva had a press conference on Monday…
Letter: Davis Chamber of Commerce Supports the Aggie Research Campus
by the Davis Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors At the Chamber of Commerce, we are aware…
Sunday Commentary: What the Killing of Ahmaud Arbery Tells Us
Another black man was falsely believed to be a criminal for no apparent reason other than the…
Sunday Commentary: It’s a Stunningly Bad Economic Picture – What Do We Do?
Twenty million jobs lost in April as unemployment jumped officially to 14.7 percent—a figure that no doubt…
Guest Commentary: Michael Moore’s ‘Planet of the Humans’ Documentary Peddles Dangerous Climate Denial
The YouTube film offers outdated and wildly misleading information on renewable energy, sacrificing progress in pursuit of…
Guest Commentary: Angels, the Rerun
by Mark Dempsey “If it weren’t for lies, there wouldn’t be any politics” – Will Rogers “The…
Commentary: Mayor Pro Tem Flips Script on Housing Discussion
Measure R is working. We can get projects that are voted down by the public. We can…
Commentary: Violent Arrest in Manhattan this Week Leads to Questions, As Armed Protesters Get No Resistance
The video has gone viral, all over the news and social media, of a man in New…
Monday Morning Thoughts: Why Did the City Wait So Long before Discussing Measure J Renewal?
For the last several weeks we have heard from people in the community complaining—rightly that the city…
Guest Commentary: Independent Fiscal Analysis Shows Great Promise for Davis in Aggie Research Campus
By Dan Ramos As one of the partners behind the Aggie Research Campus (ARC), I’ve been…
Sunday Commentary: Pressure Mounts to Reopen the Economy
There were protests on Friday where large numbers of people pressed for the government to allow the…
Council to Start Looking at Renewing Measure J
When the City of Davis passed Measure J, now 20 years ago, in 2000, it became one…
My View: Protests Rage, but Rushing Openings Is Recipe for Disaster
Media coverage out of Sacramento and Orange Counties showed large crowds, many of them outside without masks…
Analysis: First Look at the MRIC-ARC Fiscal Comparison
In 2015, with the fiscal analysis of the then-Mace Ranch Innovation Center (MRIC), we were surprised to…
Commentary: Why the Bakersfield Doctors Should Not Be Believed
by Robert Canning Two physician-entrepreneurs who own a string of urgent care clinics in Bakersfield claim the…
