Lost in the debate, over things like the definition of homelessness, is a simple fact – we don’t have enough housing to serve the existing student population. And that p...
By Scott Michelman Late one September afternoon in 2017, on an ordinary residential street in a predominantly African-African neighborhood of the nation’s capital, M.B. C...
Last week the Vanguard launched its 8th Annual Fundraiser, focusing on the highly topical subject of immigrant rights. The goal is 100 sponsors by August 31 – we are nea...
On Sunday, the Vanguard published a guest commentary from Don Gibson which laid out a number of findings from a survey. That survey, which was part of the chancellor’s A...
It was one of those pivotal moments in life for both myself and Ajay Dev – but for very different reasons. For me, I sat in the courtroom in 2009 for the first time and...
by Anita Woo Throughout the preliminary hearing, three police officers testified against Margarito Alvarez, accused of sexual molestation. The defendant periodically shoo...
By Ashley Sawyer Have you ever watched an episode of “Law & Order”? The creators do an amazing job of dramatizing the court process. The characters playing the prosec...
Last spring, when the Vanguard attempted to find data on the student housing crisis, the information that the university had was very limited. The university could not t...
Attorneys for Ajay Dev are seeking to overturn the conviction from 2009 that resulted in a 378-year prison sentence when the jury found Mr. Dev guilty of 76 of 92 counts...
By Stacy Sullivan On April 6, 2018, President Trump issued an official memorandum with the following subject line: Ending “Catch and Release” at the Border of the United...
The handwriting is on the wall. The city in a letter from Attorney Whitney McDonald have pushed back against the university. While the city is willing at this point to a...
by Don Gibson For the past year or so, local elected and appointed officials have been asking for numbers that better illustrate the Davis housing crisis, especially as t...
by Sarah Lustbader Sidney Fussell, writing for Gizmodo, has investigated the field of law enforcement drones, which is vast and unregulated. There is no nationwide policy...
By Jeff Adachi & Yali Corea-Levy California law provides for three common pleas in a criminal case: not guilty, guilty and no contest. In the San Francisco courts, ho...
The Vanguard has spent much of the summer so far talking to councilmembers, city staff, and community leaders about the need for economic development. There is a general...
Two months ago, the Davis Planning Commission rejected the student housing project, Davis Live Student Apartments. The proposed 71-unit, 440-bed housing project is locat...
By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Court Watch SACRAMENTO – A long-awaited preliminary trial for three anti-fascists – all facing charges stemming from a riot at the State Ca...
Since 1989, experts estimate that nearly 200 people have been wrongly convicted in California. According to the Innocence Project, mistaken eyewitness identification pla...
The evolving discussion over the future of the Davis Downtown is critical to the future of Davis. There are certainly those in the community who wish to keep things as t...
The UC Board of Regents approved UC Davis’ new Long Range Development Plan, setting plans for 9050 beds of new on-campus housing as well as the final EIR for the LRDP. I...