By Jennifer Turner I first met Alice Marie Johnson in April 2013. Seeking to tell the stories of the “living dead,” or the over 3,200 people serving life sentences withou...
We have been focused on the local housing crisis. The reality is this is not just a Davis problem. In fact, according to a report this week, it is not just a housing pr...
The city council on Tuesday will meet for the final time with Mayor Robb Davis as mayor and Rochelle Swanson as a councilmember. The last two years have been perhaps amo...
By Mitra Ebadolahi On June 7, Tiana Smalls, whose Facebook profile describes her as owner of Fire Flower Beauty Company, was riding a Greyhound bus from Bakersfield, Cali...
I understand everyone’s desire to wait to see the ballots counted before declaring winners, but the reality is that there is actually more science than art in projecting...
Secretary of State Alex Padilla announced on Friday that an initiative which would expand local governments’ authority to enact rent control on residential property is el...
By Amy Roe Nearly 30 years ago, when he was 18 years old, Sy Eubanks had surgery for a knee injury he got while competing on his high school’s wrestling team. His doctor...
The deadline to qualify is June 25. In April, supporters announced that they had gathered enough signatures to qualify for the November ballot. It has not been official...
They are not done, but the county has released the results of just under 10,000 new ballots countywide, with just over 4000 of them being from Davis. Unofficially that l...
(From Press Release) – Long time Davis resident Joe DiNunzio has declared his candidacy for the Davis School Board on the November 2018 ballot. “There is no bigger...
By Jenny Samuels In an interview with the LA Times published early Monday morning, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan set out to clarify CBP’...
Is it possible to have a non-controversial project that is a Measure R project? Will WDAAC be that project? Coming fresh off what appears to be a rather resounding Nishi...
As the community has engaged in a conversation on student housing, some have argued that UC Davis needs to take on more on-campus housing. I think most people agree with...
As early as 2015, Yolo County DA Jeff Reisig warned Yolo County Supervisors that Proposition 47 led to increasing property and violent crime Yolo County. “Part of the pro...
By Novella Coleman As stories of state violence against Black men and boys occupy many of the calls for police reform, countless stories of Black women and girls subjecte...
(From Press Release) – As of June 6, 2018, 28,172 Yolo County 2018 Primary Election ballots had been processed. There are currently 111,128 registered voters in Yol...
Unlike past Measure R projects, the approval and placement of the West Davis Active Adult Community (WDAAC) was almost routine. This was the second meeting on the projec...
It has been nearly a year since the city of Davis has had a permanent police auditor, but with their actions on Tuesday night, by a 4-0 vote with Brett Lee abstaining, th...
Last fall, the state legislature approved SB 35, and the question was going to be how it impacted local communities. A report released earlier reported that 97.6 percent...
By Veronica Isabel Dahlberg At 7 a.m. on June 5, a man walked into Corso’s Garden Center in Sandusky, Ohio. He carried with him a stack of donut boxes and announced a spu...