September 4, 2020 Guest Column: Six-Plexes Coming to a Neighborhood Near You By Pierluigi Oliverio Instead of flipping the bird to approximately 180,000 San Jose homeowners, we should stick with the existing General Plan 2040. Read More 17
September 2, 2020 Op-Ed: Valley Water Prepared for Fires, Potential Power Outages By Nai Hsueh The board chair of Valley Water says avoiding disruptions has been a priority for the agency since its founding a century ago. Read More 3
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
August 26, 2020 Op-Ed: Jacob Blake, Another Casualty of Deja Vu by Design By Sajid Khan Despite the movement in the streets, the uprisings at city halls, the chants of Black Lives Matter, we’re still here. Read More 6
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
August 13, 2020 Op-Ed: ‘Bending the Arc’ Requires Truth-Telling and Humanity By Sajid Khan The DA cannot bend the arc toward justice until he stops the dehumanization of people who are accused and convicted of crimes. Read More 11
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
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
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
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
July 18, 2020 Guest Voice: Vice Mayor Chappie Jones Talks Race, Hope and How He Found His Way to San Jose By Ken Pyle An interview inspired by Maasai Jones (no relation to Chappie) and a poem he wrote before his passing, “A Diet Racist.” Read More 2
July 18, 2020 Op-Ed: Honesty is Good—Accountability is Better By Pat Ferraro Unless the Valley Water board rejects the request for “an endless tax,” voters should reject the agency’s parcel tax measure this fall. Read More 7
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
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
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
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