The city has gotten an earful on Mace – some of that may be justified, but there are still a lot of questions that seem to need to be addressed. The neighbors and residen...
Back in December, Oakland Assemblymember Rob Bonta introduced AB 32, which would prohibit California’s use of for-profit, private prisons. He also introduced AB 33, requ...
By Ronald Newman Jose Ivan Parga is a member of a multi-status, Mexican-immigrant family in Minnesota. Even though he is a citizen, every day he witnesses the fear and un...
So far 316 (as of press time) have signed a petition to ask the city of Davis to restore Mace Boulevard to two lanes in both directions. (The petition on Change.org is l...
By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – When Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert announced about a month ago that she was not go...
(From Press Release) – Today, a judge authorized the release of all records of San Francisco police officers involved in shootings, killings and other serious misco...
Free event: Knowledge, Power, and the Future of Academic Freedom (From Press Release) – Attacks on faculty free speech and academic freedom are at an unprecedented...
Critics of the council are charging that the council is out of step with the community on a variety of big issues: Parking, Roads, Housing and the Claw. But let’s t...
While much of the attention in recent years has focused on African Americans killed in disproportionate numbers by the police, longtime civil rights leader Dolores Huerta...
By Crilly Butler It’s my understanding that the purpose of city government is to act as both the elected and the paid representatives advocating for the needs and welfare...
This traffic situation on Mace is bad and getting worse – that’s the message received by the city, mayor and councilmembers on Thursday evening at a community meeting. Th...
A few weeks after Governor Gavin Newsom put a moratorium on the death penalty, there are signs that public opinion is starting to shift. A poll by the Public Policy Inst...
(From Press Release) – New polling released today shows that Californians from all walks of life and all parts of the state support legislation to strengthen consum...
Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry and some of her colleagues held a press conference and rally in support of her bill, ACA 1. ACA 1 would reduce the local vote threshol...
While the Senate rejected the Green New Deal on Tuesday on a 57-0 vote, New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez laid out her vision of why this is needed and why...
(From Press Release) – Mutual Housing California, one of the state’s leading nonprofit affordable housing developers, is about to crush out the danger of secondhand...
By Don Sherman Please be wary of granting any private enterprise exclusive use of city facilities. Regarding wifi and cellular service, around 40-years ago, when the tech...
When I started the Vanguard – 13 years ago this coming July – I had the premise of the “dark underbelly” of Davis. The idea was that beneath the veneer of progressive en...
(From Press Release) – Today, the Davis Chamber of Commerce announced that it has hired Cory Koehler as the new Executive Director. Koehler, brings over twenty years of e...
Treatment delays are unconstitutional (From Press Release) – A judge has ruled that the Department of State Hospitals and Department of Developmental Services are v...