Sunday Commentary: We Need to Be Talking about the Big Housing Issue in Davis
By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA – I was sitting down this week over coffee with a…
Commentary: Fairness Builds Trust
By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA – Reasonable people can disagree on policy goals. That is the…
Sunday Commentary: Housing Element Probably Gets Out in Front of Public Opinion, but Has Some Very Good Proposals
By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA – The Housing Element Committee last week voted in favor of…
Commentary: The City Could Do More to Make Redevelopment and Infill Viable
By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA – My columns this week have taken a rather dim view…
Commentary: Should Davis Pursue More Greenfield Development in the Current Housing Element Cycle?
By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA – Yesterday’s column focused on the thoughts of law professor Chris…
Commentary: City Needs to Be More Proactive on Bretton Woods
By David M. Greenwald For better or for worse, the Cannery project has become the local poster…
Re-Imagine LA Coalition Rejects CEO’s 2021-2022 Fiscal Budget, Urges Full Funding of Measure J
By Ishani Desai LOS ANGELES — The Re-imagine LA Coalition denounced the LA County CEO’s plan allocating…
Los Angeles Rally Honors The Victims of Incarceration and Demands the Closure of Men’s Central Jail
By Anisha Girotra LOS ANGELES — On the evening of March 29, coalition leaders and community members…
Vanguard’s Monthly Webinar – New Housing in Davis (Video)
Housing is always a huge topic in the city of Davis—but one thing that has concerned me…
Commentary: Seriously, Where is Davis Planning to Put New Housing?
By David M. Greenwald The question of where the city plans to put new housing is not…
Commentary: How Do People Plan to Finance Their Ideal Community?
By David M. Greenwald In 2018, only 57 percent of the voters supported a parcel tax for…
Commentary: Sometimes Living in a Democracy Means You Don’t Get What You Want
By David M. Greenwald The number one lesson in any democracy is that you have to accept…
Commentary: DISC – What Went Wrong? Pretty Much Everything
By David M. Greenwald In Davis, if you look at some of the private polls, most developments…
Analysis: Not a Huge Amount of Surprises Locally
By David M. Greenwald The last totals came in at 11:42 pm, but it looks like there…
Commentary: Some Election Day Local Picks
By David M. Greenwald I don’t envy the job of national prognosticators, but at least they get…
My View: Looking at Council and Two Ballot Measures
By David M. Greenwald For the most part, we lack polling in Davis, so prognostication is admittedly…
Commentary: One Alternative Way Forward on Measure J
By David M. Greenwald My expectation is that Measure J is likely to pass the electorate with…
Guest Commentary: Sierra Club Endorses Measure D
by Alan Pryor Citing grounds of “preservation of agricultural lands and open space, in-fill development and densification,…
Commentary: (Measure) D Might Stand for Lack of Good Data
By David M. Greenwald Rich Rifkin’s latest column is probably worthy of discussion—he says “Measure D” and…
Monday Morning Thoughts: Preservation As an Illusion
By David M. Greenwald There are reasons why we all live in Davis. For me, it’s about…
