Back in 2014, it looked like the city of Davis was finally going to break through on its long unrealized potential of economic development. It hired the well-respected R...
On Friday, 24 days after the election was held, the county finally wrapped up their count in all of the local contests. None of them were particularly close and so, as e...
It seems like we have been asking this question since the founding of the Vanguard in 2006. Sometimes, we have moved forward, sometimes we have moved backward. The situat...
It seems like every time we move the discussion of economic development forward in this community, we have to circle back so that people can understand the problem that w...
In April, Community Development Director Ashley Feeney announced he was leaving his post after a little over two years with the city of Davis to pursue opportunities in t...
Daryl Arbuthnott has only been the fire chief in Davis for 17 months, but now he is moving on, as Vallejo announced on Thursday they had hired him to fill a vacancy at ch...
By Jeanne Hruska and Holly Welborn Alongside the major criminal justice reform headlines that came out of the midterm elections, a quieter trend also gained momentum thro...
When the idea of innovation centers first came forward in Davis, I was at best lukewarm on the concept. I was always leery of the commercialization of Davis, valuing our...
The city council on Tuesday issued a proclamation declaring November to be Native American Heritage Month. Melissa Moreno, who was just elected to the Yolo County Office...
By Madhuri Grewal Back in April, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, both under the Department of Homeland Security, entered into a mem...
The council got their crack at the affordable housing ordinance and, for the most part, did what was expected – they continued the ordinance until June. They left the 15...
By Kerry Rudd Proposition 47’s forgotten people are in dire need of relief. Low-level offenders, the people for whom our state sought to decrease penalties, have been bur...
by Natalie Mvondo I’m helping Faithful Friends, a grassroots group, set up a book drive for the immigrants at the Yuba City County Jail. We’re making a list of 50 books (...
By Jamil Dakwar Pictures of migrant women and children fleeing in panic as tear gas canisters were fired at them by U.S. border agents this week shocked many Americans, b...
Barry Broome, the CEO from Greater Sacramento came to Davis City Council on Tuesday night and delivered a presentation on the possibilities that Davis possesses for econo...
The Davis City Council became the third entity in the last two weeks to look at the city’s affordable housing ordinance. Ultimately, they followed staff recommendations...
By Danielle Silva The jury trial of Aaron Lamont Freeman had closing statements delivered today. On November 14, 2017, over twenty tools had been stolen from a van in Wes...
One of the challenges for Davis is that Davis has competing needs – on the one hand it has relatively limited land available for commercial development – on the other han...
By Kendra Hall This morning, in department 8 of the Yolo county Superior Court Ashley Bargenquast, Attorney for the Defendant Mr. Cody Grimes, argued that the charges aga...