Davis

Last week, Susan Lovenburg announced that she would run for a second term for the Davis Joint Unified School Board.  Her decision followed Richard Harris' announcement that he would not run and instead planned to support a parcel tax.  Nancy Peterson...

By Alan Pryor Davis Historical Per Capita Water Use and Future Targets One cannot directly compare total per capita usage by some cities with that of Davis because many cities (e.g. West Sacramento) have a far greater percentage of industrial vs home...

It’s been a year and a half since I blogged about my favorite agaves. All of the varieties I described then are still among my favorites (some are included in this post as well) and many others have joined the collection. While I didn’t set out to...

This week the Davis City Council passed a budget that, with very little attention or fanfare, made huge in-roads into making this community more sustainable. The new budget proposes perhaps as much as eight million in cuts, in order to deal with incre...

At the local level, we were treated to stunning news that might have gone unnoticed by some.  The Davis City Manager suggested that, in a few short years, the City of Davis will spend one-quarter of its payroll on health care for retirees. At the sam...

Just a few weeks after Richard Harris decided not to run again and pushed the board and district to support yet another parcel tax, Susan Lovenburg announced she would face reelection, and now we have the first challenger for the open position. Nancy ...

I still remember the first time I saw a porcupine tomato (Solanum pyracanthon or Solanum pyracanthum). The vivid orange spines looked so vicious but at the same time irresistible. I simply had to touch them and when I did, I was surprised. As lethal as...

So I was driving down the highway, and I passed this truck full of yellow PVC pipes.  The light was really great and I was thinking the pipes would make a really interesting photo, but of course I was driving.  Not that I'm above snapping a p...

In a memo the Vanguard received sent from Woodland City Manager Paul Navazio to Davis City Manager Steve Pinkerton among others, it becomes clear that the Davis-Woodland-West Sacramento regional option for water is off the table. The memo sent on Thur...

The writing was on the wall last week, the Davis School Board was not going to put the restoration of this year's cuts on the ballot. There were good and solid reasons laid out by Gina Daleiden last week not to attempt to restore the cuts from last ye...