Assemblyman Evan Low has blazed trails for his youthful involvement in politics. Now he wants to lower the state’s voting age to 17.

As the capital of Silicon Valley, San Jose is at the heart of the innovation economy. But are we creating enough opportunities for upward mobility?

Silicon Valley hosts vigils to memorialize one of the worst mass shootings in American history, which left 49 people dead and 53 wounded.

Assembylwoman Nora Campos awarded Voler Strategic Advisors the “Business of the Year." It turns out the mysterious company employs her baby brother.

The assemblywoman doubled down in accusing her opponent, state Sen. Jim Beall, of criminal behavior. But a CHP report doesn’t back up her claims.

Tuesday is Equal Pay Day, which correlates to how many additional days in the year women have to work to earn as much as men for the same job.

If State Assemblyman Kansen Chu (D-San Jose) gets his way on daylight saving time, we'll never have to reset our clocks again.

Darcie Green’s campaign had a few stumbles to begin the year. Now, hard-to-find campaign filings have raised questions about her accounting practices.

San Jose’s daily newspaper seems to have no intention of giving its readers the raw truth about state Assembly candidate Darcie Green and her husband.

Name recognition is the name of the game when it comes to politics, but there’s more to the decision by one local elected's spouse to change his name.

Kansen Chu has run through quite a few staffers as a state assemblyman, a trend carried over from his days on San Jose's City Council.

Don Edwards, who died last week at the age of 100, held a special place in the political prism of Silicon Valley.

Evan Low raised the ante on public service earlier this month, when the state assemblyman and one of his staff members helped rescue two young women from an overturned vehicle.

Each house of the California legislature recently produced a bill that calls for our state to get 50 percent of its energy from renewable resources by the end of 2030. It’s a goal that many of us on the side of progress can support wholeheartedly. But, as usual, there's a twist.

Peninsula politicos received an unexpected surprise earlier this week, when word began to spread that Assemblyman Rich Gordon (D-Menlo Park) was throwing his support behind Marc Berman in his run for the State Assembly's 24th District seat.

Madison Nguyen, San Jose’s former vice-mayor and a current candidate for the 27th Assembly District, published an op-ed Thursday calling for the creation of University of California, San Jose.