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…
Guest Commentary: America’s Public Defenders’ Offices Are Broken. Here’s How to Fix Them
By Kamala Harris As a former prosecutor and attorney general of California, I saw our legal system…
Cautious Council Asks Staff to Return with Additional Information on Broadband
The Davis City Council is moving forward with interest on the municipal broadband proposal, asking staff to…
Commentary: Rare Consensus by DA and Public Defender Overshadowed by Local Politics
Last month, the Davis City Council, pressured by neighbors on Pacifico, acknowledged that the Pacifico location was…
Commentary: Research Shows We Must Figure Out Ways to Get Our Kids More Sleep
The research on late start is pretty overwhelming. Studies show that teens need 8.5 to 9.5 hours…
The Hypocrisy of William Barr’s Spying Claims
By Ashley Gorski Discussing the origins of the FBI’s Russia investigation, Attorney General William Barr recently claimed…
Monday Morning Thoughts: A Key Question Is What Has Gone Wrong with Cannery?
When the Cannery development came to a council vote in the late fall of 2013, the final…
Sunday Commentary: Gilligan, Sentencing and the Specter of White Privilege
On Thursday, Hayley Gilligan plead no contest to a revised charge of voluntary manslaughter, thus avoiding a…
Guest Commentary: A Municipal High-Speed Broadband Network Would Be a Huge Financial Risk
By Dan Carson This Tuesday, the Broadband Advisory Task Force (BATF) will step forward with its final…
Commentary: Did Democrats Sell Out on Police Use of Force?
Reaction to the compromise of AB 392, the police use-of-force bill co-authored by Shirley Weber and Kevin…
Guest Commentary: UC Davis’ Aggie Square Can Lead to Regional Prosperity
By Gary S. May Report cards don’t always deliver the results one hopes for, but they can…
