Commentary by Heather Caswell April 11, 2025 In the spirit of compassion, community and protecting women from violence, Davis needs to change the narrative around prosecuting repeat offending, mentally disturbed criminals who have created the worst safety crisis in our city’s history. Since last summer, when I had my life... Continue reading

Commentary by Heather Caswell with Jonathan Greenberg Our decision to threaten the City of Davis with a class action lawsuit on behalf of members of the Downtown Davis Business Association (DDBA) was not made easily, or quickly. For years, an organization that was created to support the interests of hundreds... Continue reading

Attorney Roger Dreyer Calls Out the City’s Failure to Take Responsibility Until the Last Minute For Immediate Release: Kellie DeMarco Woodland, CA — After a Yolo County jury unanimously found the City of Davis fully responsible for the tragic death of Jennifer Comey, a wife and mother killed by a... Continue reading

By Alan Hirsch Tuesday, Davis city’s “trial of the decade” begins to wrap up with closing arguments - and the public can watch the drama of three sets of polished lawyers via live-stream from home. The issue is liability for the city killing a woman to through neglect of a... Continue reading

By Eileen M. Samitz The Village Farms Draft Environmental Report (DEIR) was released roughly a month ago and the deadline for public comment is coming up soon on Tuesday Feb. 25th at 5pm. It is important to submit your comments and any concerns now to City Staff member Dara Dungworth... Continue reading

By Eileen M. Samitz The Village Farms Draft Environmental Report (DEIR) was released roughly a month ago and is required by the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) law to circulate to allow public comments to be received in writing and verbally at public meetings. Last Wednesday, Feb. 12th the City... Continue reading

Original Village Farms proposal but showing locations of the Old City Landfill and Sewage Treatment Plant, Channel A, and the UATA site. By Eileen M. Samitz The Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) has been released for comments on Village Farms, on a parcel outside city limits, is the largest project... Continue reading

By Nate Huntington Solano Together Coalition Member Thank you to those who showed up last week at the Suisun City Council meeting to voice your concerns about the discussion on expanding city boundaries and exploring land annexation. In Short: Last Tuesday, January 21, the Suisun City Council voted 4-1 to... Continue reading

By Dan Urazandi I wrote this letter for other downtown businesses. When asked to reproduce it publicly I refused, as it involves an internal DavisDowntownBusinessAssociation issue and as only DDBA members can vote on it for matters both practical and tasteful I held it back. But since the DDBA establishment... Continue reading

by Alan C. Miller Note: Read Jonathan Greenberg’s article, below this article, before reading this! Both my and JG’s articlse are in response to the Davis Enterprise article by Kevin Wan at: https://www.davisenterprise.com/forum/commentary-ddba-addressing-downtown-safety/article_b2cc9648-d81e-11ef-9fb7-17ed56e5d85f.html If you know a downtown business owner, encourage them to go to the DDBA meeting at Natsulous... Continue reading

By Jonathan Greenberg It is unfortunate that Kevin Wan, as Chair of the DDBA, resorted to lies and distortions in defense of a board majority that shamefully refuses to take an active part in responding to the worst public safety crisis in Davis history. In his column in yesterday's Davis... Continue reading

Suisun City, Suisun City’s sphere of influence and Flannery Associates land parcels. Map by Solano Together using QGIS. Datasources: OSM Standard, MTC/ABAG Data Library, Solano County parcel data Nate Huntington Solano Together Coalition This Tuesday, January 21, at 6:30 p.m., we urge you to attend the City of Suisun Council... Continue reading

The trial date is approaching for PITTS vs. CITY OF DAVIS. Theodore Pitts the widower of Jennifer Comey who was killed by the limb of a City of Davis Tree in Slide Hill Park will get his day in court in attempt to seek compensation for the death of his... Continue reading

By Heather Caswell and Jonathan Greenberg Commentary January 18, 2025 Since writing my December 18 Enterprise column about the public safety crisis in downtown Davis, I have heard feedback from dozens of my customers, most of them older women. Some, like former Assembly Member Helen Thomson, asked how they could... Continue reading

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By Colin Walsh Measure T provides funding for the operation of a new library in South Davis. T answers a long felt need in an underserved area. T is a discrete tax that joins already procured funds. T makes sense. Measure Q is a bad deal for Davis. Q doubles... Continue reading

William W. Hagen is an emeritus professor of History at UC Davis, specializing in German and east European history. His archival research has often taken him to Berlin and Warsaw, as well as to Vienna, Jerusalem, and New York. He recently recorded a podcast on HIS book, Anti-Jewish Violence in... Continue reading

City of Davis Extends Recruitment for Advisory Commissions From Press Release Post Date: July 03, 2024 4:00 pm The City of Davis announced that applications to serve on one of the following City Commissions have been extended to July 19, 2024: • Fiscal Commission • Senior Citizen • Social Services... Continue reading

City promises made, need to be kept by Eileen M. Samitz The City needs to reject the North Covell Creek housing application to develop 75 acres of the Wildhorse golf course because it would clearly violate the 1998 Deed of Conservation Easement executed between the Wildhorse property owner and the... Continue reading

by Elaine Roberts Musser, It appears that our long established city commission system is in chaos! Look at what happened in the month of May - many cancelled commission meetings. Because of Councilmembers Vaitla and Chapman refusing to appoint applicants to commission vacancies, the Finance and Budget Commission (FBC) has... Continue reading

by Elaine Roberts Musser Finally the City of Davis commission merger issue is being brought back to some of the affected commissions for their feedback. Unfortunately city staff and some of the City Councilmembers are acting as if their terribly flawed plans for merged commissions are a done deal. For... Continue reading

Public comment regarding the use of facial recognition cameras in Davis by Grant Orwell I fully support the efforts to monitor the activities of everyday Americans in public and in private and through government-corporate partnership to record every piece of data possible about their persons, activities, transactions, movements, social network,... Continue reading

(Chart from Mr. Best’s presentation) The School Board has completely ignored the massive student enrollment decline while they ask all of us to pay ever increasing taxes, indefinitely! The only way to stop this disconnect is to vote NO now while you have the chance. By Michael J. Harrington, a... Continue reading

I’m writing this letter to voice strong support for Sheila Allen’s candidacy for Supervisor in Yolo County District 4 which comprises North, East and South Davis. I have lived in all of these three areas of Davis since I first moved here in 1975. Although with brief hiatuses to other... Continue reading

Comments delivered by Tree Davis’ Executive Director to the Davis City Council regarding the re-alignment of City Commissions - January 30th, 2024 The proposal to amend the City’s Commission structure is a weighty issue, and we at Tree Davis feel that it would be a disservice to over half a... Continue reading