March 31, 2021 Ex-San Jose Mayor, Aide-Turned-Wife Part Ways After 21 Years By The Fly Guiselle Nunez has made her separation from Ron Gonzales “Facebook official.” Read More 8
March 31, 2021 New Urban Village Development Threatens to Displace San Jose’s 60-Year-Old Berryessa Flea By Jennifer Wadsworth The open-air market is Silicon Valley’s unheralded business incubator, but will it be pushed out by the city’s development plans? Read More 26
March 25, 2021 Breeze of Innovation: San Jose Landmark Design Wins Challenge By Katie Lauer Silicon Valley will one day have a fluid, illuminated, kinetic landmark, swaying in the breeze—assuming the project gets funding and approval. Read More 32
March 24, 2021 For Children of Immigrants, DACA Challenges Persist No Matter Who’s in the White House By Grace Stetson Though DACA is safe under President Biden, pent-up demand, depleted advocacy resources and uncertainty still plague the program. Read More 2
March 21, 2021 China Punishes Microsoft’s LinkedIn Over Lax Censorship By Paul Mozur, Raymond Zhong and Steve Lohr Officials said the social network had failed to block objectionable content, a sign of the sacrifices it must make to remain in the market. Read More 4
March 19, 2021 After Cutting Cinequest Short Last Year, Silicon Valley’s Annual Film Festival is Back Online By Katie Lauer This year, ticket-holders can host or join screening parties, a nod to Cinequest’s in-person soirees after film credits roll. Read More 2
March 18, 2021 Altered Valley: What a Year of Pandemic Has Done to Our Lives By Janice Bitters After a year of lockdowns, can we break our Covid-era habits—or will the pandemic affect the way we live forever? Read More 4
March 17, 2021 Displaced Sunnyvale Homeless Residents Are a Symptom of a Broader Regional Issue By San Jose Inside Dozens of homeless residents lived in Fair Oaks Park until a construction project forced them out, despite the pandemic. Read More 40
March 15, 2021 China’s Jaded Techies Find a Hero in Elon Musk By Raymond Zhong The Tesla boss and digital prankster is striking a chord, at a time of disillusionment with the tech industry and its leading tycoons. Read More 4
March 11, 2021 Companies That Rode Pandemic Boom Get a Reality Check By Steve Lohr Investors, who flocked to companies like Zoom as the virus spread, have started to look elsewhere. Read More 0
March 9, 2021 Stanford Under Fire for Denying Scribe to Disabled Student By Jennifer Wadsworth The university’s denial of homework accommodations for Antonio Milane has launched a larger conversation about disability rights. Read More 12
March 8, 2021 How Do Silicon Valley Techies Celebrate Getting Rich in a Devastating Global Pandemic? By Erin Griffith Not by buying airplanes. Instead, the newest start-up millionaires are proceeding cautiously. Read More 4
March 7, 2021 Away From Silicon Valley, the Military Is the Ideal Customer By Cade Metz While much has been made of tech’s unwillingness to work with the Pentagon, startups are still plumbing the industry’s ties to the military. Read More 3
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
March 3, 2021 Ladder Climbers: Women Aim to End Longtime Gender Inequity in Silicon Valley Firefighting By Jennifer Wadsworth Even as gender equality in most traditionally male sectors has improved, women in Santa Clara County continue to be shut out of firefighting. Read More 5
February 25, 2021 Tackling Tech’s $16 Billion Diversity and Retention Problem By Katie Lauer Diversity in tech has been an evergreen issue for years in Silicon Valley, but has become even more central as employees begin to speak out. Read More 6