Jose Mesa Velasquez, the artist whose East Side mural was painted over last week, says the property owner gave him no warning.

Sometime before dawn Wednesday, a handyman painted over the oldest mural in San Jose, a three-decade-old panorama of Chicano culture.

San Jose Vice Mayor Magdalenca Carrasco got her wish Tuesday night: avoiding the runoff.

Magdalena Carrasco’s critics contend that she lives outside her own district, and one went so far as to hire a private eye to try to prove it.