Analysis: Downtown Survey Gives Us a Guide to Fiscal Crisis
A few weeks ago Vanguard readers were asked to participate in the Davis Downtown’s Fiscal Crisis Survey…
Commentary: City Should Read Letters Like These…
I happened to glance at a letter to the editor this morning that says the “city needs…
Election Digest: Yolo County Democrats Formalize Their Endorsements
Yolo County Democrats Announce their State and Local Endorsements The Yolo County Democratic Party (YCDP) has endorsed…
Sunday Commentary II: POU Has Emerged as a Hot Button Issue While Roads Are Ignored
As we noted earlier this week, results from a Davis Downtown survey suggest that the city of…
Sunday Commentary: Council Fails to Take Lead on Paid Parking
One of the more critical votes in the last few weeks was council backtracking on the issue…
Social Sustainability – Encouraging the Next Generation
by Rob White Sarah Worley and I had the privilege of attending the Sierra Nevada Innovation Challenge…
Commentary: Beyond Paid Parking Debacle, We have Failed to See the Future
As we argued in yesterday’s column, the other solutions to parking were not going to work without…
Analysis: Survey Bolsters Concern Parcel Tax Would Not Pass This Fall
In yesterday’s column, we summarized the Davis Downtown’s survey on the fiscal crisis. At the outset of…
Vanguard Commentary: Troubling Vote on Parking
With the site problems, we have been waiting to weigh in on last week’s vote on parking. …
Vanguard Commentary: Restoring Trust
One conversation I find myself rather consistently having is the fundamental lack of trust that segments of…
Sunday Commentary: City Settles for the Small ‘w’ on Sales Tax Ballot Measure
In an ideal world, the city of Davis would have liked the clean victory on Measure with…
PG&E/ IBEW Poll Shows Davis Residents Opposed to POU
Back in February the Vanguard reported about a poll conducted within the city of Davis about PG&E…
Sunday Commentary II: Addressing the Parking Problem
The parking problem in the Davis Downtown is a difficult proposition. We can question whether city staff…
Caution: City In Danger of Losing Message on Fiscal Crisis
I could not disagree with much, if anything, that Robin Wiener wrote today in the Davis Enterprise….
A Look at the City’s Sales Tax Revenue History
There have been repeated requests from the city to provide sales tax data. We present the data…
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…
Judge Backs City on Final Water Rate Ruling
Despite the lengthy process for re-arguing the water rates case in lieu of Judge Dan Maguire’s January…
The Electric Grid and the Requirements to Manage It Are Changing
by Matt Williams In his article on Friday, Mark Braly ended with the following paragraph. The Davis…
Council Takes Stand on Crude Oil Transport by Rail
by Michelle Millet Last Tuesday Mike Webb, Director of Community Development & Sustainability, presented a status update to council…
Is the End Near for Big, Centralized Investor-owned Utilities?
by Mark Braly The Davis City Council has reopened the question of a Davis-owned municipal electric utility…