Opinion August 27, 2020 Letter to the Editor: If We Don’t Address Climate Change, These Fires Will Only Get Worse By Guest Columnist If we don’t address climate change head on, these apocalyptic fires burning up and down California will remain our reality. Read More 8
Opinion August 14, 2020 Op-Ed: The Time Has Come for DAs to Create Police Crime Units By Aram James and Richard Konda Police might change their behavior in the line of duty fs they see that they will not be handled by prosecutors with kid gloves. Read More 33
News August 5, 2020 California Cities, Counties Target Homelessness with Newly Launched Project HomeKey By Janis Hashe Can a program created to help the most vulnerable during the pandemic successfully morph into permanently helping the unsheltered? Read More 9
Opinion August 4, 2020 Op-Ed: Automated Traffic Enforcement Can Ease Some of Bay Area’s Policing Problems By Ted Stroll It’s time to give cameras a chance, ending the Driving While Black phenomenon and reducing traffic chaos in Bay Area streets. Read More 20
Opinion July 31, 2020 Op-Ed: Masks Can Help Us All Regain More Freedom By Otto Lee While politicians still dither over whether or not to mandate masks, it’s time to put factually based statistics and science above politics. Read More 16
Opinion July 21, 2020 Op-Ed: No More Policing Who ‘Gets’ to be Queer By Tonya Barajas, Rizzo Barajas, Alysa Cisneros, Ra Hopkins, Richard Mehlinger and Alex Lee Unfortunately, people in the bi+ and non-binary communities too often face rejection not just from straight people but from gay people. Read More 5
Opinion July 20, 2020 Letter to the Editor: Prop. 15 Puts Schools, Communities First By Guest Columnist What’s more, this initiative would implement small business tax relief to those businesses which have been hardest hit. Read More 5
Opinion July 9, 2020 Letter to the Editor: There’s Too Much at Stake This Fall—We Must Expand Vote-by-Mail Now By Guest Columnist Congress has the ability to act right now; we need to make sure our electeds know that anything less than immediate action is unacceptable. Read More 8
Opinion July 8, 2020 Letter to the Editor: Congress Should Fund Vote-by-Mail for All By Guest Columnist Without more funding for elections, voters may not be able to make their voices heard in one of the most important elections of our lifetime. Read More 3
Opinion June 30, 2020 Op-Ed: It Takes Community, Collective Commitment to Solve Homelessness in Silicon Valley By Ericka Avila and Leslye Corsiglia The passing of Measure A was all about our collective commitment to build places for the folks who had nowhere else to go. Read More 9
Opinion June 25, 2020 Op-Ed: Though Thousands Lack Shelter Amid Deadly Pandemic, San Jose Leaves Trailers Empty By Raymond Ramsey The city’s decision to “demobilize” FEMA trailers for the unhoused can only be summed up as a shameful debacle lacking any transparency. Read More 10
Opinion June 23, 2020 Letter: 650 Public Defenders Stand Behind Sajid Khan By Guest Columnist Hundreds of public defense attorneys from throughout the country speak out in solidarity with their colleague in Santa Clara County. Read More 8
Opinion June 15, 2020 Op-Ed: San Jose Leaders Ignore Calls for Justice From Families Impacted by Police Violence By Laurie Valdez, Leila Ullmann and Oscar Sandoval When it comes to addressing the needs of people who make up the city’s diversity, leaders respond with empty gestures, ineffective policies. Read More 16
Opinion June 12, 2020 Letter: San Jose Leaders Should Heed the Call to Defund Police By Guest Columnist Together with families of people killed by police, Silicon Valley De-Bug came up with a practical guide for defunding the San Jose PD. Read More 21
Opinion June 12, 2020 Op-Ed: Pastor’s Plea for Re-Opening Was Disheartening, Divisive, a Betrayal of History By Nicholas Barron A local professor calls Hillside Church minister’s use of the pulpit (albeit it a virtual one) opportunistic, insensitive and alarming. Read More 24
Opinion June 11, 2020 Letter: Dr. Sara Cody, Please Let Churches Gather to Worship By Guest Columnist Keith Crosby, the pastor of Hillside Church in San Jose, urges Santa Clara County to ease public health rules on places of worship. Read More 13