Local

Editor’s note: Today is Flag Day, commemorating the adoption of the flag of the United States. We fly “Old Glory” at our house — and the Iowa State Cyclones flag when our football-playing nephew is home, or during the football season. I once joked to him that the British do something similar when the...

A few weeks ago, the Vanguard through a public records act request and a subsequent lawsuit against the city of Davis obtained a less redacted version of the Davis Fire Report that was originally presented to the public in January of 2009. The most re...

Editor’s note: Facebook is a good source for information about our community, along with the more traditional ones, as I’ve written before. The other day, I noticed this high-school commencement speech from Reinette Senum’s Facebook page. Reinette spoke to the CORE (Placer County) students in Auburn at their graduation on June 2. I enjoyed...

Take Dad for a train ride this Father's Day. Both the State Railroad Museum and its sister attraction, Railtown 1897 in Jamestown, will be offering excursions pulled by vintage steam and diesel locomotives.Railtown's famous "Movie Star Locomotive" Sierra No. 3...

On Tuesday, the city of Davis learned as expected that they had lost their appeal of the PERB ruling invalidating the city's imposition of Impasse in 2010 on the Davis City Employees Association (DCEA) bargaining unit. The city manager in order to rec...

SACRAMENTO — Everything is bigger in Texas, the saying goes, and that is now also true of its prison system. California used to have the nation's largest state prison system, topping 173,000 inmates at its peak in 2006. But since a law took effect...

The city’s Integrated Waste General Manager, Steve Harriman, talked trash at tonight’s meeting. The city has a new recycling/trash/green waste plan. It’ll save money, but is it the best thing for the citizens? Check out the city’s proposal at Cleaner … Continue reading →

A Marysville funeral home kept the ashes of an Air Force veteran and his wife in cardboard boxes for up to 14 years, according to a lawsuit filed in Yuba County Superior Court. Family members of the late Harvey and Millicent Sell accused Lipp &...

Editor’s note: We watched this game on televison, while eating some barbecued spareribs and cole slaw on our laps. Not a bad way to spend a moldy Wednesday night! “Matt Cain was perfect Wednesday night,” according to the S.F. Chronicle. “The Giants’ 27-year-old right-hander retired all 27 Houston hitters at AT&T Park. A crowd...

When I moved here seven years ago, I kept hearing about how the local left was at the root of the community’s problems. Being more conservative, at least in the liberal Bay Area, I was all ears. As it turned out, most of what I heard from the right were personal attacks, some of...