David Greenwald

Part One – Overview of the Current Problem and Challenges - It was a small but intimate setting on what turned out to be a rainy Monday. Mayor Joe Krovoza and City Manager Steve Pinkerton came before between 20 and 25 members of the public at...

The city of Davis announced formally that in conjunction with new water rates, which take effect this month, the city of Davis "has introduced a Water Assistance Program to help low income homeowners offset water costs." It is not a huge discount, a...

It is hard to call something that was a five year battle and took six months after the audit report came out, easy, but in a way it is.  The savings of nearly half a million dollars was already factored into the current budget that will be due by the ...

You can't really make this stuff up.  Lost in the national debate over gun control and the Boston Marathon Bombers and their post-arrest treatment is the federal trial in New York that is charging that the department's "stop-and-frisk" practices are b...

I have largely sat back on the issue of fluoridation in Davis' drinking water, largely because I'm rather indifferent to the issue.  However, when Supervisor Matt Rexroad tweeted yesterday, "It seems that people that oppose fluoridation are likely t...

A Friday came the story of Eli Davis who lives somewhere between Village Homes and Lake Blvd in West Davis.  In a letter published on Friday in the Davis Enterprise, he claims he was mowing his front lawn a few weeks ago in the middle of the afterno...

When I first started this gig, Bill Emlen had just taken over as interim City Manager after the council for variety of reason fired City Manager Jim Antonen.  Bill Emlen was the Peter-principle in embodiment - a career bureaucrat in the planning dep...

The Davis Enterprise in their Sunday column, praises the actions of the Davis City Council writing, "Despite protestations that Davis' public safety will be compromised, a majority of the Davis City Council took a courageous stand Tuesday and voted to ...

By Catherine McKnight The expected two-week trial of People v. Baird began on Wednesday, May 1 in Department 7 under honorable Judge Gaurd. Prosecuting the case is District Attorney Amanda Zambor with private council, Richard Dudek, defending Ryan Ba...

The Council cast their 3-2 vote on Tuesday, but it is clear that the war is not over on the issue of fire staffing.  In a piece co-authored by Alan Fernandes, Lori Duisenberg, Gina Nunes and Sean Cowan, "We value our firefighters" they write, "Every...