By Crescenzo Vellucci Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – In pre-dawn Wednesday morning – about the time the Davis Vanguard goes online today – 14 volunteers will begin a long...
By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – It was like a ghost town here Tuesday at Sacramento’s main downtown courthouse, which is usually jammed with...
(From Press Release) – The Sacramento Area Council of Governments (SACOG) board of directors has approved a $2.9 million grant to Valley Clean Energy (VCE) that wil...
In September 2015, the council voted 5-0 to approve an Embassy Suites Hotel Conference center on Richards Blvd. However, the project was almost immediately sued on CEQA...
In his article yesterday on hunger in Davis, Michael Bisch notes: “one of the biggest challenges in my first year as Executive Director of the Yolo Food Bank (founded in...
By Carl Takei and Paige Fernandez The most common refrain from gun rights supporters in the wake of mass shootings or other gun violence is that the best response to a ba...
As I noted over the weekend, if MRIC should come back before the council, we would hope that it would be fully analyzed by an outside consultant and reviewed by the Finan...
Report Finds That Perceptions of Policing and Economic Factors Have Decreased Applications to Most Departments Davis for years has struggled to hire police officers. And...
by Michael Bisch “When we’re talking about poverty, what we’re really talking about is hunger and malnutrition.” – Yolo County Supervisor Don Saylor To my surprise, one o...
By Kendra Hall Last Friday, the jury began deliberation in the trial for the two co-defendants Christopher Moore and James Kenney after each attorney delivered a compelli...
In recent weeks I have seen the terms “left” and “right” used at times to describe positions in local politics. While I understand that temptation, I continue to believe...
There are a lot of details that of course need to come out, but based on what we now know, it is really hard to imagine that the Democrats in the House will be able to av...
On November 26, Barry Broome, the director of Greater Sacramento spoke to the Davis City Council and laid out his views on economic development. (For more, see our Novem...
by Biyao Ren Honorable Judge Timothy L. Fall presided over the preliminary hearing for People versus H. Compton at Department 11 on December 7th, 2018. Mr. Compton was al...
From now until December 31, 2018, when you sign up as a Vanguard subscriber, not only do you get our Premium Morning Newsletter, but you register to win a free copy of “D...
We have been talking about the impact of Economic Development in Davis for nearly a decade now and as such, we have mound of material to pour back over. There is a reaso...
by Lucas Frerichs and Tom Stallard In a disappointing decision, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) recently voted to approve increases to the “exit fees” c...
By David Cole Donald Trump’s nomination of William Barr to succeed Jeff Sessions as attorney general ought to raise alarm bells across the country. Barr is as bad as Sess...
by Connor Kianpour The preliminary hearing for the case of Michael Ray Berry was heard in Department 13 of the Superior Court of Yolo County on December 7, 2018, Judge Pa...
Right before Thanksgiving, the Social Services Commission took up the 3820 Chiles Road project. For the most part the response was positive as many see the need for the...