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By Matt Williams In the coming weeks as a member of the WAC I am going to be formally and officially asked what my recommendation to City Council is regarding fluoridation of Davis' water. Comments selected from the recent fluoridation discussion: ...

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by Matt Williams Several months ago we had a lively discussion here on the Vanguard about empathy . . . what it is, and what its value is.  This Vanguard article is a follow-up to that discussion. Anyone who watched the PBS Newshour last night on KV...

By Matt Williams Twice in the past month I have been faced with a "laws vs. ethics" conundrum. The first came as part of a development application review process conducted by Yolo County's South Davis General Plan Citizens Advisory Committee (the "co...

by Matt Williams In yesterday's thread keithvb made the following post, "It is obvious to me that we need a complicated, difficult to understand system of paying for our water. That way we will all be hoodwinked together." Read more...

By Matt Williams Bob Dunning in his Sunday column spent a whole lot of words to ask a simple question, "Why is summer peak consumption used in the CBFR calculation?" Bob is smiling right now because he has constructed a very creative scenario using fi...

Editor's Note: Matt Williams made the decision rather than simply allow Bob Dunning to have the field to himself at this time that he would respond to Mr. Dunning's Sunday column.  In what follows, "POINT " is from Bob Dunning's column and "COUNTERPOI...

By Matt Williams Editor's note: Matt Williams who sits as an alternate on the Water Advisory Committee and who developed along with fellow WAC member Frank Loge the Loge-Williams water rate model, responds to last week's Bob Dunning column using a ...

By Matt Williams Part Two: Water Process Interest Groups - Let me start by saying that the opinions and perspectives presented here in this article are those of the author and not the opinions and perspectives of the Water Advisory Committee ("WAC"...

by Matt Williams  GUEST COMMENTARY - First, the customary disclaimer.  The author is a member of the Water Advisory Committee (WAC), but the opinions herein are his own and not those of the WAC. As Council, Staff and the WAC have wended their resp...