December 30, 2020 The Media Missed Some of the Biggest Stories of 2020 By Jay Evensen Weeks before New Year’s Day, the Wright brothers made the first successful flight. Few noticed. They were too busy looking to the usual important sources for momentous achievements. Read More 3
December 22, 2020 Op-Ed: Follow the Science—An Open Letter to Anna Eshoo By Salem Ajluni The real question we should be asking is: “how can we afford not to adopt a single-payer system?” Read More 34
December 21, 2020 Op-Ed: Nurse-Patient Ratios Aren’t Just a Numbers Game—They’re About Safety By Jessica Smits Now is the time for hospitals to protect nurses so that they can continue to provide this work—work that puts them on the front lines of a pandemic. Read More 4
December 16, 2020 Op-Ed: Equity? Not in San Jose By Gil Rodan The Diridon area never seemed to be worth “revitalizing” before the prospect of Google money came into the picture. Read More 9
December 15, 2020 Op-Ed: Mothers Join Youth in Urging San Jose to Show the Way to Climate Safety By Linda Hutchins-Knowles and Maggie Dong As the Capital of Silicon Valley, San Jose should incentivize clean-energy solutions, not the fossil gas past. Read More 4
December 14, 2020 Op-Ed: Santa Clara County Should Do More to Protect Frontline Healthcare Workers By Allan Kamara The Registered Nurses Professional Association says the county is falling short in its response to the ongoing surge in Covid-19. Read More 1
December 2, 2020 Op-Ed: Without Major Change, San Jose Affordable Housing Policies Are Doomed to Fail By Gil Rodan If we want to truly create an affordable city, we must first reject the naive notion that developers and real estate speculators want affordability. Read More 8
December 1, 2020 Op-Ed: Grace Baptist Church Stabbing Was a Tragedy That Could Have Been Averted By Shaunn Cartwright, Jethroe Moore, Pastor Scott Wagers, Sandy Perry, RJ Ramsay and Jamie Foberg The lives of unhoused people matter. Providing them the basic resources to reinforce that doesn’t seem like much to ask. Does it? Read More 10
November 24, 2020 Op-Ed: Refusing to be Left Behind, Grassroots Agencies Lead Local Response to Covid Surge By Joanna Acevedo Led by five local service organizations, the Si Se Puede Collective commits to mobilize the community’s awareness and well-being. Read More 0
November 23, 2020 Op-Ed: Valley Residents Still Need More Access to Covid Tests By Dr. Jennifer Tong As we await a vaccine and the onslaught of the flu season, improving access to testing is our most important step to ending the pandemic. Read More 2
November 18, 2020 Op-Ed: In San Jose, ‘Vision Zero’ Seems More Like ‘Zero Vision’ By Gil Rodan Passing out signs and moralizing “pedestrian education” do little to help if our city is too feckless to do what actually saves lives. Read More 12
November 12, 2020 Letter: It’s Time to End Gerrymandering By Guest Columnist Gerrymandering contributes to hyper-partisanship and allows politicians to pander to special interests, but ignore the people they represent. Read More 10
November 6, 2020 Op-Ed: How to Forecast the Outcome of an Election Without Polling a Single Person By Matt Lampert Dear campaigns: consider spending a fraction of your research budget on socionomic analysis. Read More 0
November 5, 2020 Op-Ed: Without Systemic Change, BLM Banners Are Nothing More Than Performative Wokeness By Gil Rodan The banners could reaffirm our commitment to equity. But right now, the promises they hold are as empty as the wind that blows them. Read More 10
November 2, 2020 Local Labor Escaped Reckoning for Earlier Racist Campaigns By Dan Pulcrano South Bay Labor has employed racist tactics to prevent minorities—including 1998 San Jose council hopeful Tony West—from securing office. Read More 1
November 2, 2020 Op-Ed: How Is Everyone So Woke But Still Disbelieving Women? By Shaunn Cartwright Here we are. It’s almost election day 2020,but you’d never know that between the refusals to believe women and all the incidents of racism. Read More 8