San Jose Inside

In his inaugural speech after being sworn in for his second term today, Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen highlighted the reforms made since taking office in 2011.

San Jose’s medical marijuana regulations have whittled down the number of pot clubs from upward of 80 last year to just 21 by last count.

After 29 years with the San Jose Fire Department, interim Chief Ruben Torres will retire from his post at the end of the month. But he’s taking a similar job just 30 miles away.

This Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the ‘Freedom Train’ will take its last right, ending a three-decade civil rights tradition.

The San Jose Police Department will hold another community meeting Saturday about its drone, an unmanned GoPro-strapped quadricopter it acquired early last year without public input.

Now that a federal appeals court has upheld Major League Baseball’s exemption from antitrust laws, San Jose will likely take its case to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Xavier Campos has made the predictable shift from councilman to “facilitating relationships” for Ford & Bonilla, a lobbying and consulting firm with extensive ties to the Campos family.

Ten names will grace the ballot for San Jose’s special election in April, but only nine plan to actively campaign for the District 4 City Council seat.

Councilman Don Rocha is calling for a management review that could reveal more details about more information about recent dysfunction in the city manager’s office.

Last fall, the Knight Foundation asked 26 communities across the country: How would you make your city more successful? The answers are in, and nine submissions from San Jose were named finalists.

San Jose will consider creating its own immigration office to support residents who may qualify for deportation relief under President Obama’s newly expanded immigration policy.

Serious health issues can play out in schools every day, sometimes in life and death ways. Yet few schools in California have a credentialed school nurse at the ready to appropriately address the problem. The school nurse ratio is a troubling one for every 2,240 students.