March 18, 2021 Another 206 Acres Purchased in Coyote Valley for Preservation By Grace Stetson The news comes after years of planning to preserve the land between the Santa Cruz Mountains and Diablo Mountain Range. Read More 15
March 17, 2021 San Jose Backs New SJPD Chief Despite Allegations of Transphobia, Islamophobia By Bay City News The San Jose City Council confirmed the hiring Tuesday of Mata, a deputy chief in the department, after a nationwide search. Read More 13
March 4, 2021 Lobbyist Slams San Jose Over Delays on Cannabis Land-Use By The Fly Sean Kali-Rai said the city has been dragging its feet on a policy that the council asked to prioritize three years ago. Read More 3
February 22, 2021 SJ Police Chief Finalists Named—But Some Say It’s Too Fast By Sonya Herrera The city convened panels last week to interview the first round of seven candidates, but who voted and the tallies remain a mystery. Read More 16
February 12, 2021 San Jose Mayor Forms Advocacy Organization to Push for Re-Opening Elementary Schools By Grace Hase Sam Liccardo founded Solutions San Jose, a 501(c)4 advocacy organization, to urge more schools to resume on-campus learning. Read More 16
February 10, 2021 San Jose Again Mulls Scrapping Highrise Fire Safety Code By Jennifer Wadsworth Without air-refilling stations in San Jose’s highrises, firefighters say they’d have to lug metal oxygen tanks up flight after flight of stairs. Read More 24
February 2, 2021 San Jose Considers ‘Hazard Pay’ for Grocery Store Workers By Jana Kadah, Bay City News The additional pay would apply to stores with 300 or more employees nationwide and companies that are publicly traded. Read More 31
February 1, 2021 Op-Ed: Ash Kalra Should Be California’s Next AG By Molly ONeal, Manohar Raju, Oscar Bobrow, Tracie Olson, David Epps, Michael Ogul and Sajid A. Khan Public defenders are calling on Gov. Gavin Newsom to name the Silicon Valley lawmaker—a former defense attorney—to the AG post. Read More 10
January 6, 2021 Op-Ed: Is San Jose Ready for as Many as 112 Digital Billboards? By John Miller Imagine our freeways and gateways lined with electronic signs. Think how easily the sense of place we’ve worked hard to create can be destroyed. Read More 9
December 17, 2020 #ShopLocalSJ Campaign Promotes Small Businesses During Stay-at-Home Order By Silicon Valley Newsroom The initiative includes a fee cap on food-delivery apps, local business directory and a resource guide for mom-and-pop enterprises. Read More 4
December 16, 2020 San Jose, Santa Clara County Cap Fees for Food-Delivery Apps By Silicon Valley Newsroom The ordinances limit how much money food-delivery apps can charge mom-and-pop restaurants struggling to survive the pandemic. Read More 4
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 15, 2020 Op-Ed: Mothers Join Youth in Urging San Jose to Show the Way to Climate Safety By Linda Hutchins-Knowles and Maggie Dong As the Capital of Silicon Valley, San Jose should incentivize clean-energy solutions, not the fossil gas past. Read More 4
December 10, 2020 San Jose’s D8 Councilwoman Tests Positive for Covid-19 By Jennifer Wadsworth Sylvia Arenas announced today on social media that she tested positive for Covid-19, along with most of her family. Read More 0
December 7, 2020 Santa Clara County Poised to Expand Quarantine Subsidies for Low-Income Residents By Jennifer Wadsworth The referral introduced by Supervisor Susan Ellenberg also asks that the county disclose some key data points to improve transparency. Read More 0
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