News May 26, 2020 Santa Clara County Offers Closer Look at $97M in COVID Costs By Jennifer Wadsworth The financial disclosures come three months after the county declared a state of emergency, which expanded its authority to fight the crisis. Read More 12
News May 22, 2020 Proposal Would Force California Counties to Pay Cash Rebates to Commercial Landlords By Jennifer Wadsworth For a scheme with such potentially devastating consequences on schools and local governments, it’s garnered surprisingly little attention. Read More 26
News May 20, 2020 Santa Clara County Supervisors Call for Greater Transparency Over Emergency Spending By Jennifer Wadsworth Two county supervisors want a COVID cost tracker so the public can see precisely what’s being invested to pull through this crisis. Read More 6
News May 19, 2020 Beloved Downtown Arts Group Works/San Jose Faces Eviction By Jennifer Wadsworth The nonprofit gallery, which set so many on a creative course in life, faces a roadblock on its own path—and it couldn’t come at a worse time. Read More 23
Business May 13, 2020 Decades of Community-Building at Stake as San Jose’s Cultural Districts Fight to Survive By Jennifer Wadsworth From Little Saigon to Little Italy, will Silicon Valley’s treasured ethnic enclaves be recognizable once the pandemic runs its course? Read More 6
News May 1, 2020 San Jose City Clerk Accuses County’s Top Election Official of Bowing to Political Pressure By Jennifer Wadsworth Toni Taber levels the charge as part of a lawsuit filed by the ROV against the city to try to revive the labor-backed Fair Elections Initiative. Read More 11
News April 29, 2020 Autopsy Reveals Horrific Injuries Caused by San Jose Council Candidate’s Fatal Car Crash By Jennifer Wadsworth Assistant Medical Examiner Medhi Koolaee, the forensic pathologist who signed off on the report, deemed the manner of death an accident. Read More 28
News April 29, 2020 SVO Accuses Santa Clara County ROV of Going to Bat for Labor By Jennifer Wadsworth The SVO president slammed the ROV as exceptionally inept, and called for the DA to investigate “improprieties” under Shannon Bushey’s watch. Read More 11
Investigative Reports April 15, 2020 After Years of Dysfunction, Can 4Cs Weather Another Crisis? By Jennifer Wadsworth Many among the rank-and-file at the long-embattled 4C Council fear that Ben Menor will run yet another nonprofit into the ground. Read More 21
News April 1, 2020 BREAKING: Santa Clara Co. Reports 8,246 COVID Tests as Stanford Passes 10,000 Mark By Jennifer Wadsworth and Grace Hase Local health officials finally released data about the total number of people tested and other critical data related to the COVID-19 outbreak. Read More 13
News March 31, 2020 New Interactive Model Explores How Various Interventions Would Alter the Spread of Coronavirus By Jennifer Wadsworth The project aims to help the public understand just how important it is to “flatten the curve” of the now-ubiquitous epidemiological graph. Read More 5
News March 27, 2020 National Guard Preps Events Center for Coronavirus Patients By Jennifer Wadsworth Dr. Jennifer Tong, who’s leading the county’s surge plan for all local hospitals, said she expects patients to start filling the beds by Tuesday. Read More 5
News March 26, 2020 SJ Braces for 2,000 COVID-19 Deaths Over Next Two Months By Jennifer Wadsworth But if people ignore public health guidelines about staying six feet apart and at home as much as possible, as many as 16,000 could die. Read More 29
News March 26, 2020 Coronavirus Live Blog, March 26, 2020: Staying Home Saves Lives By Jennifer Wadsworth The shutdowns are working. And California has no plans to grant President Trump’s wish of getting back to business as usual by Easter. Read More 6
News March 25, 2020 Infectious Disease Expert Says Nearly Half the Patients at San Jose Kaiser Have Coronavirus By Jennifer Wadsworth Roughly half of all patients at the Blossom Hill hospital have tested positive for coronavirus or are suspected to have been infected with it. Read More 52
Investigative Reports March 25, 2020 Incomplete Testing Blurs Full Picture of COVID-19 Outbreak By Jennifer Wadsworth As Santa Clara County public health authorities battle a mounting pandemic, what they don’t know can actually hurt us. Read More 17