May 4, 2021 Update: SJ Council Approves Breeze of Innovation Project By Katie Lauer The design came out on top of a world-wide search for San Jose’s new, iconic landmark, but some advocates are pushing back on the project. Read More 14
April 14, 2021 Santa Clara County Officials will Revisit Laura’s Law Debate By Madelyn Reese County elected officials punted on making a final decision about Laura’s Law in 2019, but a new state bill is forcing a vote. Read More 12
April 7, 2021 Jockeying Over Who Will be the Next San Jose Mayor Has Begun By The Fly The clock's ticking on San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo's final term, which ends in 2022, and candidates are lining up. Read More 9
April 5, 2021 San Jose Electeds Pass Rules to Throttle Chatty Colleagues By Sean Roney Elected officials say the new rules will encourage brevity and stem the notoriously long City Council meetings most weeks. Read More 7
March 26, 2021 What’s Next for Guadalupe River Park and SJ’s Homeless Crisis? By Grace Stetson and Katie Lauer No one is happy with the homeless crisis in San Jose’s Guadalupe River Park and around the city, but whose vision will fix it? Read More 27
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 15, 2021 Op-Ed: Welcome to The Jungle, Where There’s Abundant and Affordable Housing By Shaunn Cartwright, Nassim Nouri, Sandy Perry and RJ Ramsey Sweeps that clear homeless camps like The Jungle do nothing but displace homeless people, putting their health and lives at risk. Read More 27
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 South Bay Elected Leaders Say They’re Waiting Their Turn for Coronavirus Vaccine By Jennifer Wadsworth To date, no one on the San Jose City Council or Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors have been inoculated against the virus. Read More 3
February 4, 2021 Digital Billboard Proposal Lights Up Debate in San Jose By Emanuel Lee An environmental review of a proposal that would allow scores of digital billboards to go up throughout San Jose is nearing an end. Read More 6
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 San Jose Mayor Recommends Removal of Thomas Fallon Statue By Jennifer Wadsworth The decision comes after a public forum on the statue’s fate in which community members criticized it as a glorification of colonialism. Read More 33
January 16, 2021 New Gastro Lounge Prepares to Open in SJ’s SoFA District By Katie Lauer Good Spot is one part of a major transformation in downtown, including a wave of new business moving into the SoFA District while others shutter. Read More 0
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
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 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