Commentary: Mental Illness Is a Factor, but It’s Not the Major Problem in the Homelessness Epidemic
Davis is looking to offer things like permanent supportive housing at places like Paul’s Place. As the…
Commentary: Why Wait for the State on Ethnic Studies?
The school board this week has a letter asking for Senator Connie Leyva and Assemblymember Jose Medina…
Monday Morning Thoughts: Death Penalty, Media Coverage and the Court Watch
A friend and reader pointed me over the weekend to a column from Nicholas Kristof entitled, “When…
Guest Commentary: Affordable Housing: ‘Income inequality, unaffordable housing, homelessness, are not bugs’
(c) By Mark Dempsey Special to the Vanguard Pundits, public policy mavens, and environmentalists are working overtime…
Linda Fairstein Is Canceled. Is ‘Law & Order’ Culture Next?
By the Appeal “I had stared at death before. I was way too familiar with the vagaries…
Sunday Commentary: Housing Policy as Generational Warfare for Millennials
The Atlantic in the past week wrote an article, “Why Housing Policy Feels Like Generational Warfare (To…
Guest Commentary: Introducing the Aggie Research Campus
by Dan Ramos Several years ago, Ramco Enterprises along with our partners, Buzz Oates and Reynolds &…
My View: Housing Insecurity and Homeless Numbers at UCD a Cause for Alarm
Lost in the shuffle of the new Aggie Research Campus as well as the Paul’s Place homeless…
Trump Border Czar Will Continue the Administration’s Cruel Border Policies
By Brian Tashman President Trump announced today that former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) director Thomas Homan…
Commentary: Rebranding MRIC as Aggie Research Campus… with Housing
After five years and a number of false starts, MRIC (Mace Ranch Innovation Center) needed a rebrand,…
Commentary: Five Years Later… Why We Still Need Economic Development in Davis
The year 2013 was the first time I took seriously the notion of large scale economic development…
Guest Commentary: Leveraging Core Competencies for Economic Development
By Matt Williams Note: This article was originally published in May 2016 and has been re-published by…
Monday Morning Thoughts: What Should the District Do?
The school board has a tough call to make. The polling that came back is right in…
Monday Morning Thoughts: Four Cases from SF to Sac Illustrate the State of the Injustice System
The Vanguard is now covering cases from San Francisco to Sacramento and we find injustice across the…
Sunday Commentary: Deputy DA Mount’s Conduct in Court Shows Lack of Objectivity in Dev Case
At the court on Friday morning as Judge Janene Beronio was deciding when to schedule an evidentiary…
Sunday Commentary: Power Outages the New Normal?
California Wildfires There we were on Friday evening and suddenly the news is reporting that areas of…
Harvard Was Wrong to Dismiss Its Dean for Representing Harvey Weinstein
By David Cole and Carol Rose Last month, Harvard College Dean Rakesh Khurana announced that Ronald Sullivan,…
My View: Parcel Tax Should Be Pursued, but We Need to Address Other Issues
If you look at the polling numbers released by the school district you arrive at a very…
Commentary: Fiscal Caution Is the Right Approach
When the Vanguard was formed in 2006, one of the problems we cited in city governance was…
Alarm Sounded on Face Surveillance-Enabled Body Cameras in California
Diverse coalition announces support for AB 1215: The Body Camera Accountability Act (From Press Release)–Today, the ACLU…
