Whatever you’d like to discuss.

For the moment at least, the Norcal documents are being kept under wraps.  Barry Witt reports on the story for the Mercury News, describing how each mayoral candidate voted.  Hint: they weren’t all on the same side.

Glennda Chui of the Mercury News reminds us that it’s best for cities to stick together to prepared in case of an emergency.  According to the Merc, Dave Pandori may be preparing to enter the Mayor’s race.

According to the Fly in Metro, things sometimes aren’t so great either downtown or at Santana Row.  Some downtown club owners feel like they’re the victims of over-zealous enforcement by police.  And Santana Row seems to have been a poor choice for the Italian Family Festa.

That’s what we’re all hoping to be able to do, but it looks like we won’t get the chance.  Barry Witt has a story in the Mercury News about the fate of the documents.

Use it as you will.

Another thought-provoking cartoon from DeCinzo.

San Jose history.  That’s what we had on Tuesday, as Madison Nguyen became the first Vietnamese-American to win an election for San Jose City Council.  Rodney Foo and Truong Phuoc Khánh write up the victory and what went on in the race that pitted two Vietnamese-American women against each other for the Distrct 7 seat vacated by Terry Gregory’s resignation earlier this year.

DeCinzo has a good cartoon this week.

For the Labor Day holiday, we’re taking a break from posting.  Enjoy the holiday and we’ll resume our regular schedule tomorrow.

The big news of the day, as reported by Deborah Lohse and Barry Witt in this morning’s Mercury News, is that Carl Mosher has resigned as the city’s envronmental services director to take a job with the County of Sacramento.  His new boss asked the reporters “Should I know about that?” when asked about the Norcal investigation.

Jerry DiSalvo to sculpts the pieces he makes in a make-shift studio on his back lawn, according to Mayra Flores De Marcotte in the Willow Glen Resident.

They’re in a new building, but some old business is sticking around.

Tuesday, a new City Hall opened, Wednesday, Cisco opened the NASDAQ from San Jose.  Lot’s of opening going on.  Also opening: the independent investigation into the NorCal Deal.

No, not the City Council, the racers in the first San Jose Grand Prix, as Mark Purdy describes.

The trail of the contract, that the Mercury News so helpfully lays out.