May 2, 2021 County Urges Teens to Get Covid-19 Vaccine as Demand Dips By Eli Walsh, Bay City News Just one-third of Santa Clara Countys 16- and 17-year-olds have received at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine. Read More 2
April 29, 2021 State, Local Officials Urge Bay Area Residents to Sign up for Health Insurance by Friday By Eli Walsh, Bay City News New tax credits are also expected to lower premiums by an average of $180 per month for roughly 280,000 Bay Area residents. Read More 1
April 20, 2021 Report: Wage Theft in SCC Keeps Workers Unpaid and Unprotected By Katie Lauer Despite decades of judgements and legislation, accounts of wage theft continue to run rampant in Santa Clara County, new data show. Read More 6
April 15, 2021 The SCC Assessor’s Race is the Political Show of the Season By The Fly After 26 virtually unopposed years, Santa Clara County Assessor Larry Stone may finally have met a match in Gary Kremen. Read More 13
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 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
January 15, 2021 Advocates for the Homeless in Sunnyvale Fight Encampment Sweep in Woman’s Name By Jana Kadah, Bay City News Homeless advocates in Sunnyvale say encampment sweeps are inhumane, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic. Read More 1
January 13, 2021 Indicted SiliconSage CEO Enjoyed Access to Local Political Leaders By Jennifer Wadsworth and Janice Bitters Sanjeev Acharya branded himself as a commercial real estate innovator, but regulators call him a con man. Read More 16
January 6, 2021 SiliconSage CEO Denies SEC’s Fraud Charges, Blames Pandemic for Firm’s Financial Woes By Jennifer Wadsworth Developer Sanjeev Acharya says federal regulators rushed to judgment when they charged him with running his company like a Ponzi scheme. Read More 3
December 27, 2020 Calif. School Districts, Charters Get $6.8 Billion in Federal Aid By John Fensterwald and Daniel J. Willis, EdSource The latest relief package offers about four times as much as the $13.5 billion in aid that went to K-12 schools under the CARES Act. Read More 3
December 23, 2020 SEC Accuses Silicon Valley Developer of Scamming Investors By Jennifer Wadsworth A claim lodged this week in federal court describes how all but one of SiliconSage’s projects in the past few years failed to turn a profit. Read More 16
December 12, 2020 South Bay City Officials Slam VTA’s Measure B Outlook By Erik Chalhoub Critics worry that too many of the funds are going to extend BART to Silicon Valley instead of repairing local streets. Read More 11
November 11, 2020 Sunnyvale Election Full of Firsts By Emanuel Lee The city voted for its first directly elected mayor as well as its first Muslim-South Asian and openly queer councilors. Read More 6
November 10, 2020 With 60 Percent of Votes, Otto Lee Succeeds Dave Cortese in Santa Clara County’s District 3 By Jennifer Wadsworth The former Sunnyvale mayor, U.S. Navy Bronze Star recipient and intellectual property attorney starts his newest gig in a few short weeks. Read More 3
October 21, 2020 Two Veteran School Trustees Face Off in SCCOE’s Area 1 Race By Katie Lauer Grace Mah, the incumbent since 2007, is up against Melissa Baten Caswell, a longtime Palo Alto Unified trustee. Read More 3
October 7, 2020 Racism in the Streets: How Homelessness Became a Civil Rights Issue in the South Bay By Grace Hase Experts say Silicon Valley’s homeless crisis—like that of the nation—is interwoven with its long, painful history structural racism. Read More 21