Despite passionate and eloquent pleas from the City Hall audience, the Dec. 5 San Jose City Council decision wasn’t about taxpayers’ money, or voters’ rights. Cash, political power and private conversations not streamed on Zoom won the night.

The vacancies were created by the November election, when District 8 Councilmember Sylvia Arenas was elected as the District 1 representative on the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors and District 10 Councilmember Matt Mahan was elected mayor.

The Election Division of the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters continued to count ballots today, and reported that as of 5 pm, 54% of the approximately 314,000 ballots had been counted.

Santa Clara County school board member Rosemary Kamei is the first new San Jose council candidate of the New Year, seeking to represent District 1 in West San Jose. “After careful consideration, I am jumping in,” Kamei told San Jose Inside. Rosemary is vice president of innovation and former chief operating officer at Silicon Valley Education Foundation.

An investigation by Electronic Frontier Foundation found that of the 1.6 million plates scanned by SJPD last year, only 1,509 led to a successful match of a vehicle of interest to law enforcement.

The ban on flavored tobacco aligns with state and federal regulations so retailers that sell hookah or hookah related products would be exempt from the ban. but more than 650 San Jose tobacco retailers will have to make the shift.

If given the green light in a special meeting Friday, Gonot's first day, complete with a $350,000 base salary, would be July 12.

The city convened panels last week to interview the first round of seven candidates, but who voted and the tallies remain a mystery.

To date, no one on the San Jose City Council or Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors have been inoculated against the virus.

The additional pay would apply to stores with 300 or more employees nationwide and companies that are publicly traded.

The fact that Medaria Arradondo was even an option rubbed some local civil rights leaders the wrong way. 

The banners list 575 names of Black Americans who lost their lives to “personal, systemic and institutional racism.”

The SVO should no longer be entrusted to be the voice of the business community in Silicon Valley. It should be dismantled.

The Bay Area Air Quality Management District wants companies to prolong work-from-home by at least 25 percent.

It took a few months after the George Floyd protests to show the public even this limited footage. But, hey, it’s a start.

While SJPD withholds footage from body cameras and helicopters, San Jose has been releasing security footage caught from outside City Hall.