The Santa Clara Valley Water District plays by its own rules, which is especially easy when its rules were made to be broken.

Months have passed since we gawked at the revolving door that is Assemblywoman Campos' office. Not to worry—things are just as dysfunctional as ever.

Quentin Tarantino’s new movie, The Hateful Eight, sounds like a Red Hat Society meetup compared to the number of people peeved at the pulpy auteur.

Elected officials in Santa Clara can’t get on the same page over alcohol sales, mirroring the efforts of the city’s beleaguered football team.

San Jose scored direct flights between here and Germany, but the city had the rug pulled out from under it on another international agreement.

The sausage-making process of political reporting is rarely clean and often requires unsatisfying, unreported compromises.

Some extraordinary decisions are being made at Levi’s Stadium, even if they aren’t coming from the struggling San Francisco 49ers’ coaches and players.

Santa Clara picked Core Companies from three bidders to develop a six-acre plot. But support of one council member drew shaking heads in the process.

District 6 candidates say Councilman Pierluigi Oliverio is trying to run the race, positioning himself as a kingmaker on his way out the door.

Former Santa Clara Councilman Kevin Moore loves to tell stories, and his upcoming book focuses on two of his favorite subjects: Levi’s Stadium and Kevin Moore.

A coordinated plan to put the Santa Clara County Office of Education on notice last week ended up being the equivalent of a protest dress rehearsal.

The U.S. ambassador to Vietnam paid a visit to San Jose’s City Hall this summer, and since that time pretty much all hell has broken loose.

Rather than pick his battles, Pat Meyering will fight them all—even if it means taking a woman to court over her toy poodle.

Another top-level staffer has left the office of Assemblywoman Nora Campos (D-San Jose), which perhaps comes as a gesture of goodwill to political Mad Libs writers. As for constituents in East San Jose? Not so much.

Political spectators were a bit mystified last week as word leaked that Jeff Smith, the top exec for the County of Santa Clara, tabbed Steve Preminger to be his “special assistant.”

James Rowen just can’t seem to quit Magdalena Carrasco. The political operative who was sued off the Internet for defamation has once again taken aim at the San Jose councilwoman’s fundraising before taking office this year.