When the project is completed in 2029, VTA riders will be able to get on light rail at the Eastridge Transit Center and connect directly with BART at Milpitas Station.

Despite passionate and eloquent pleas from the City Hall audience, the Dec. 5 San Jose City Council decision wasn’t about taxpayers’ money, or voters’ rights. Cash, political power and private conversations not streamed on Zoom won the night.

The vacancies were created by the November election, when District 8 Councilmember Sylvia Arenas was elected as the District 1 representative on the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors and District 10 Councilmember Matt Mahan was elected mayor.

General election victories by Councillmembers Matt Mahan and Sylvia Arenas created two upcoming vacancies on the San Jose City Council., which will decide how to fill the vacated seats of Districts 8 and 10.

On the eighth day of ballot counting, Arenas cemented her victory, roaring to a more than 9,000-vote lead over former council member Johnny Khamis, with just 11,000 votes remaining to be counted.

The contests for mayor of San Jose, Santa Clara County sheriff, all four of the contested San Jose City Council races and the one contested county supervisor race will have runoff elections in November with the top two finishers.

The approximately 25,000 ballots counted by the Registrar of Voters Elections Division June 9 didn’t change any trends or flip any projected outcomes, but did suggest the early, expected outcomes are more likely to hold.

Arenas joins a crowded field in District 1, which has the most candidates, including former San Jose Councilmember Johnny Khamis, Morgan Hill Mayor Rich Constantine and Santa Clara County Board of Education trustee Claudia Rossi.

Elected officials say the new rules will encourage brevity and stem the notoriously long City Council meetings most weeks.

To date, no one on the San Jose City Council or Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors have been inoculated against the virus.

The additional pay would apply to stores with 300 or more employees nationwide and companies that are publicly traded.

The fact that Medaria Arradondo was even an option rubbed some local civil rights leaders the wrong way. 

San Jose City Hall, the SAP Center, Avaya Stadium, Levi’s Stadium, San Jose’s Convention Center and Historic Theaters will be lit Tuesday night.

As the Capital of Silicon Valley, San Jose should incentivize clean-energy solutions, not the fossil gas past. 

Sylvia Arenas announced today on social media that she tested positive for Covid-19, along with most of her family.

The county Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 to move forward with closing the East Side airport and figure out what else to do with it.