"Balance for a Self-Sustaining Community"

Archive Index

About Doug

• 2000 Candidate Ballot Statement
• Vision
  • 2008 Vision Statement
  • 2000 Vision Statement
• Open Letters
  • 2010 City On a Hill Press Letter to UCSC Community
  • 2008 Why I Run
  • 2000 Open Letter
• History of Commitment
  • Doug supports the proposed new Watsonville High School (2000)
  • Response from the Grand Jury regarding Doug's Complaint, filed 1999
  • Letter to Board of Supervisors regarding declaration of groundwater emergency (1998)
  • Op-Ed Piece, Sentinel and Pajaronian-May/1998
  • Response from District Director Joe Browne to Doug's proposal for improvements to Mission Street (1994)
  • Doug Designs and Develops County's Busiest Intersection for City (1993)
  • Response from UCSC to Doug's low income student housing proposal (1993)
  • Response from State Assembly Member Sam Farr to Doug's letter regarding wetlands preservation (1992)
  • Response from Mayor Mardi Wormhoudt to Doug's efforts to save the historic Pogonip Clubhouse (1989)
  • Response from Gary Patton regarding Doug's request to participate in the Local Agency Formation Commission (1976)

Water Supply

• Water Supply – background
  • Watch: Our Inconvenient Truth – Voices on SCTV
  • Read: Our Inconvenient Truth (PDF)
  • Metro Santa Cruz, 9/16/2009 letter to the editor
  • N News 2008, "The Ninja Candidates" by Chris Magyar
  • Santa Cruz Sentinel, 5/21/08, "Local Water Supply Emerges as Top Issue in Second District Race" by Shanna McCord
  • Metro Santa Cruz News, 5/7/2008, "And Some Water, Please" by Paul Wagner
  • Register Pajaronian, 4/3/2008, Doug Stands up for Sustainable Ag Water Use
  • City on a Hill Press, 5/16/07, "Water Inefficiency Gets Flushed Away" by Laura Fishman
  • City on a Hill Press, 5/10/07, Letter to the Editor from Doug
  • Register Pajaronian, 5/14/1999, "It's All About Our Water, Right?" by Doug
  • SC Farm Bureau Between the Furrows March, 1996
  • Aptos Times, Jan. 1996,"District update on Water" by Dick Little
• Enforce legal requirement to declare ground water emergency
  • Watch: 3/11/2010 Coastal Commission DVD (link coming)
  • Letter to SC County Health Services Agency and supporting emails, 10/27/2009 and prior
  • Metro Santa Cruz News, 9/23/2009 opinion by Doug
  • Letter to Coastal Commission, 3/3/2009 – Enforce Declaration of Ground Water Emergency
  • Request Driscolls Boycott and UC assistance in declaring Ground Water Emergency 5/8/2008
  • Santa Cruz Sentinel, 6/19/1998 editorial by Doug
  • Supervisor Almquist votes for Emergency Process in June 1998