December 16, 2020 Victims of Grace Baptist Church Stabbing Join Soaring Death Toll Among Silicon Valley’s Homeless By Jennifer Wadsworth The Nov. 22 tragedy points to the same dangers driving the 122 percent jump in homeless deaths Santa Clara County has seen so far in 2020. Read More 12
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 11, 2020 A New Gamer Lounge is Coming to San Jose’s SoFA District By Janice Bitters Called Guildhouse, the new lounge will be a “spiritual successor” to AFKgg Gamer Lounge, which closed in 2018. Read More 3
December 3, 2020 Delivery Fee Caps, Cocktails To-Go, Free Parking Considered to Spur Downtown SJ Recovery By Emanuel Lee The Greater Downtown San Jose Economic Recovery Task Force has handed down a slate of proposals to sustain the city’s core. Read More 3
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 25, 2020 Restaurateurs Push Ahead with Openings Despite Pandemic By Janice Bitters Do you have to be crazy to open a new restaurant in a pandemic? Maybe. But you wouldn’t be alone. Read More 1
November 24, 2020 Stabbing Victims Described as Selfless, Passionate About Helping the Less Fortunate By Jennifer Wadsworth Survivors of the Grace Baptist Church attack say that despite what happened, they remain committed to serving the homeless. Read More 6
November 23, 2020 Ramp Closed on Northbound 280 in San Jose After Two-Car Crash By Silicon Valley Newsroom Ambulances rushed to the scene, where paramedics carted away at least one person in a gurney. Read More 0
November 23, 2020 Two Killed, Three Wounded, One Arrested in Stabbing Spree at Downtown San Jose Church By Silicon Valley Newsroom San Jose police have arrested a suspect who allegedly stabbed to death a man and a woman at Grace Baptist Church. Read More 8
November 22, 2020 Two Dead, Others Critically Hurt in Stabbing at San Jose Church By Silicon Valley Newsroom Police say they have few other details to share about the incident, which took place by the church at 484 E. San Fernando St. Read More 1
November 16, 2020 Protester Injured by San Jose Police Won’t Face Charges By Jennifer Wadsworth A spokesman for Santa Clara County DA Jeff Rosen confirmed his office would drop the case based on “an insufficiency of evidence.” Read More 8
November 3, 2020 Activists Shut Down Part of 11th Street in Downtown San Jose By Silicon Valley Newsroom Organizers parked a pair of U-Haul box trucks at San Antonio and San Carlos streets while blocking traffic across 11th at San Fernando. Read More 35
October 23, 2020 Downtown SJ Restaurants Get Curfew Extension Starting Now By Janice Bitters Most restaurants and bars in the city’s “Downtown Entertainment Zone” can stay open until midnight as of this week. Read More 0
October 9, 2020 Cinebar—South Bay’s Oldest Watering Hole—Asks for Public’s Help to Stay in Business By Emanuel Lee San Jose’s beloved dive bar has launched a crowdfunding campaign to help weather the pandemic-prompted economic recession. Read More 8
September 26, 2020 Op-Ed: Resist, Reimagine and Reset in Honor of Breonna Taylor By Sajid Khan Breonna Taylor’s death is a result of our institutional, reckless disregard for Black lives. Read More 9
September 24, 2020 San Jose Tattoo Artists Embrace Reopening After Months in Limbo By Katie Lauer After seven months without steady work, the artists at San Jose’s State of Grace, including Tyler Harrington, are seeing clients. Read More 0