Measure O: Have We Done Enough?
As most people who have been reading this site know, in the next six months the city…
Vanguard Analysis: The Road to Fiscal Sanity… If Only It Were That Easy
The city, in the next month and a half leading up to the June election and then…
Clarifying the Role a Public Agency May Play in a Local Ballot Measure
So Bob Dunning, without citing a single law or statute, offers up that he believes that the…
Sunday Commentary: Asleep at the Switch, Yet Blaming Others
In Bob Dunning’s column this morning, he accuses the city of Davis of breaking the law, calling…
Sunday Commentary II: Listening to the Voters, Fifth Street, Budget
In the latest in a string of articles that examines letters to the editor, we get one…
Davis City Council Candidates Question 4 – Unfunded Liabilities
Editor’s Note: Every week on Friday the Vanguard will send all five of the candidates a question…
If You’re Not Part of the Solution…
by Rob White Over the past few months, the City Manager and other key staff have been…
Report: City Faces Drastic Cuts Without Sales Tax
City Manager Steve Pinkerton has slightly upwardly adjusted city finances since December. He wrote, “On the whole,…
My View: Who Fills the Leadership Void?
If you want to understand the fruits of good planning, and strong leadership, look no further than…
Fiscal Sustainability – Investing in Our Community
by Rob White Over the last several weeks, I have been having discussions with various parts of…
Commentary: Teachers Have Legitimate Concerns About Compensation, Particularly Health Care
Yesterday’s column by the Davis Teachers Association Executive Board raised some interesting issues. A few people expressed…
Commentary: City Should Read Letters Like These…
I happened to glance at a letter to the editor this morning that says the “city needs…
A Stop-Loss, Not a Raise
by the DTA Executive Board Recently the Davis Teachers Association voted to ratify a tentative agreement with…
Davis City Council Candidates Question 1
Editor’s Note: We are republishing this from last week. Every week on Monday the Vanguard will send…
Davis’ Inexorable Slide Into Municipal Bankruptcy
By Michael Bisch Whether Davis’ slide into bankruptcy is impossible to stop or prevent is debatable. What’s…
Munn Seeks Fiscal Sustainability in His Run For Council
Of the five candidates in the race for the Davis City Council, John Munn is the newest…
Vanguard Analysis: City Modifies Retiree Medical Vesting Plan
When the city approved the 2009-2010 MOUs, all of them included a revision to the Retiree Health…
Vanguard Commentary: What Kind of Community Do We Want to Live In?
On these pages I have shared my view a number of times. I believe that the city…
Sunday Commentary: Reversing Myself on Sales Tax Measure
Back in February, about a month ago, I came out against the sales tax measure in June. …
Participate in Poll on Fiscal Crisis
The Davis Downtown has created a community service project to determine what Davis residents know about the…
