May 1, 2021 Google Redesigns the Office for Gen Z and a Post-pandemic Era By Daisuke Wakabayashi Google is creating a post-pandemic workplace that will accommodate employees who got used to working from home over the past year. Read More 5
April 30, 2021 Big City Mayors Ask State for $20 Billion to Curb Homelessness By Jana Kadah, Bay City News The mayors want $4 billion per-year for five years in flexible funding as part of the state budget. Read More 10
April 25, 2021 Boba Tea Could be the Next Unlikely Pandemic-era Shortage By Kellen Browning The impending boba shortage is yet another sign of how the pandemic has snarled global supply chains and upended industries. Read More 3
April 24, 2021 A Cautionary Tale for Everyone By Gabrielle Bluestone From growing up in San Jose to living rich in SoCal, but authority say this life was built on millions of dollars in stolen funds. Read More 5
April 6, 2021 The U.S. Favors Cars Over Trains, Buses. Can Biden Change That? By Brad Plumer and Nadja Popovich Nuria Fernandez, former G.M. for the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority is now Federal Transit Administration's senior official. Read More 7
January 26, 2021 Los Angeles’ Overcrowded Housing Fuels Southern California’s Covid Outbreak By Tim Arango Suburban sprawl and freeways demarcate the neighborhoods of the haves and the have-nots. Read More 22
December 22, 2020 Newsom Selects Secretary of State to Serve as U.S. Senator By Bay City News Alex Padilla will be the first Southern Californian in nearly three decades to serve as one of the state’s two representatives in the Senate. Read More 13
October 14, 2020 Prop. 13 Faces Biggest Challenge Yet With Prop. 15. Is This the Tax Reform California Needs? By Janice Bitters The measure coming up on the Nov. 3 ballot is the closest anyone’s gotten to touching the “third rail” of California politics. Read More 18
September 8, 2020 Other Major Cities Dropped Curfew Charges Months Ago. What Took San Jose So Long? By Jennifer Wadsworth It’s unclear when news of the decision would have reached defendants had SJI not inquired about the mayor shirking the same rule. Read More 14
August 27, 2020 Amid Worsening Pandemic and Massive Wildfires, Census Takers Start Making House Calls By Will Carruthers and Jennifer Wadsworth With little more than a month to go before the census deadline, county officials are making a final push to ensure a complete tally. Read More 8
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 6, 2020 Real Estate Firm Kennedy Wilson Adds Another Huge San Jose Campus to Its Portfolio By Emanuel Lee The global investment company snapped up five single-story R&D buildings and a two-story office in south San Jose. Read More 0
June 18, 2020 Memorial Honors Fallen Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Deputy By Tarmo Hannula and Todd Guild Hundreds of people gathered for Sgt. Damon Gutzwiller’s public funeral on Wednesday at Cabrillo College under sunny skies. Read More 0
June 8, 2020 San Jose Mayor Says Defunding Police Would Harm People of Color, Deepen Racial Inequities By Jennifer Wadsworth The San Jose Police Department has a roughly $450 million budget, the vast majority of which (about $442 million) covers personnel costs. Read More 19
June 3, 2019 Calif. Dems Loudly Lean Left—But Quietly Make a Safe Choice By Ben Christopher Fourteen 2020 presidential contenders spoke at the California Democratic Party convention, and all but a couple called for change. Read More 10
February 21, 2019 Audit: San Jose’s 3-1-1 Hotline in Desperate Need of Improvement By Jennifer Wadsworth A new internal accountability report describes a non-emergency call system that’s critically understaffed and woefully behind the times. Read More 7