Councilmembers in San Jose can be a notoriously tardy bunch. But it appears the mayor’s race has been especially time consuming for a couple of elected officials, who have been showing up late to meetings. And their colleagues are more than a little annoyed.

The so-far civil race for mayor of San Jose will come to an abrupt end on June 3. Things are different in a two-person standoff. When the electorate has to choose between two candidates, the calculus changes and attack ads begin to appear. So who will make the runoff? Here are some predictions.

Madison Nguyen has been battle-tested and shown the courage that leadership requires. San Jose’s next mayor will need to make tough decisions, and we believe Nguyen would continue to bring common sense and balance to the dais.

In front of more than 150 people Saturday at the Mexican Heritage Plaza, San Jose mayoral candidates gave their thoughts on why the next mayor has an integral role to play in leading public education efforts.

Two years after the marijuana industry overturned local regulations on collectives, city officials aim to give it another shot.

No one in the San Jose mayor’s race received enough votes to get an endorsement from the San Jose Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce PAC, but it appears the committee considers one candidate especially bad for business.

The city will start holding its annual community budget meetings this week. Here's a look at the upcoming budget calendar.

Wading into the politics of San Jose’s Vietnamese community can be a hazardous endeavor. Several of the candidates running for mayor already knew that. Rose Herrera is now one of them.

Complaints allege that Sam Liccardo solicited donations before he could legally start fundraising and failed to record in-kind contributions.

Councilman Don Rocha wants to amend the city’s pension reforms to solve what he deems a more pressing problem: employee retention.

Sam Liccardo still holds an enormous fundraising lead over his mayoral opponents six weeks ahead of the deadline to submit mail-in ballots, but he's closing in on the voluntary expenditure limit as other candidates catch up.

The recent poll showing Dave Cortese in first place—and Madison Nguyen in second—for the San Jose mayor’s race must have been a shock to the Sam Liccardo camp. So much so, that Liccardo released his own polling information showing him now in second.

It’s come to this: Labor blasting city of San Jose officials via poetry. Bad poetry. Like really, really awful poetry. The missive at hand is a 12-line poem written in couplets by police union head Jim Unland.

City leaders on Tuesday will consider placing a measure to extend an about-to-expire library parcel tax on the June ballot.

The first poll for the San Jose mayor’s race came out this week, and county Supervisor Dave Cortese sits atop the pack. This really isn’t surprising. What’s interesting is the fight for second.

A union-backed poll for the San Jose mayor's race can be read many ways, but the percentage of undecided voters stands out most.