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San Jose Stage Company Celebrates Anniversaries with Benefit Performance
Jun 19, 2013 by Josh Koehn Politics, Culture Comments (0)
San Jose Stage Company co-founder Randy King, left, and city of San Jose planning director Joe Horwedel will once again team up in Friday’s special anniversary celebration for the Stage Company’s 30th year and Monday NIght Live’s 20th performance.
On Friday, June 21, the San Jose Stage Company has an especially auspicious occasion scheduled, as the company will put on a benefit performance to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the political comedy show Monday Night Live! and the 30th anniversary for the company as a whole. The five-hour gala will start at 7pm inside the Silicon Valley Athletic Club’s Corinthian Grand Ballroom. Ticket reservations can be purchased at http://www.thestage.org, or by calling the box office at 408.283.7142.
San Jose Officials Blame Bud Selig for Antitrust Lawsuit
Jun 19, 2013 by Josh Koehn Politics, Business, Culture Comments (5)
Baseball commissioner Bud Selig, left, refused to meet with San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed about the Oakland A’s relocating to San Jose. Now the commish could find himself meeting with San Jose’s attorneys in court.
More than four years have passed since Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig formed a committee to study the best places for the Oakland A’s to play ball. But what’s the point of studying something if that knowledge is never put to the test? On Tuesday, the city of San Jose called time and filed a federal lawsuit challenging MLB’s antitrust exemption, part of which prevents teams from relocating without approval of the league and other team owners.
Sam Liccardo: Why San Jose Sued Major League Baseball
Jun 18, 2013 by Sam Liccardo Politics, Business, Culture Comments (19)
Bud Selig, commissioner of Major League Baseball, has rebuffed requests from city of San Jose leaders ot meet about the Oakland A’s relocatign to San Jose. That could change now that the city filed a lawsuit against MLB in federal court.
Original Joe’s has become a San Jose institution by serving the best eggplant parmesan in the Bay Area for over 50 years. It has thrived in Downtown San Jose because their owners, the Rocca family, like so many other San Jose businesspeople, know what it takes to compete. As they compete for the loyalty of their patrons, Original Joe’s has helped to support the college tuitions and mortgages of generations of cooks and wait staff.
Council to Discuss Cost of Homeless Camp Cleanups in Fiscal Year’s Last Meeting
Jun 17, 2013 by Jennifer Wadsworth Politics, Business, Culture Comments (5)
Residents of a homeless encampment in San Jose. (Photo by Chip Scheuer)
The city expects to clear up 40 to 60 homeless encampments a year—indefinitely. Annual cost for the cleanups will range around $550,000, and possibly more, if the city approves a contract with Tucker Construction, Inc., at Tuesday’s City Council meeting. Other agenda items for the last council meeting of the fiscal year include a settlement for a man struck by a police car, a renewal agreement with the city’s Sacramento lobbying firm and a potential shift to store city data through cloud computing.
Attorneys Union Meeting Reveals ‘Deep Division’ on Admin Leave, Union Leadership
Jun 14, 2013 by Josh Koehn Politics, Culture Comments (0)
Max Zarzana, president of the Government Attorneys Association, may have miscalculated how to address the use of admin leave in the District Attorney’s office, as the county now wants to take back money from some GAA members.
The Government Attorneys Association (GAA) held a special meeting Friday, and sources tells San Jose Inside that if the county attorneys agreed upon anything, it’s that a “deep division” exists amongst the membership. The big question is how can this be resolved when the union’s leadership continues to focus on scoring fleeting political points.
‘Patient Dumping’ Victim Files Lawsuit with Help of ACLU
Jun 14, 2013 by Jennifer Wadsworth Culture Comments (2)
Mentally ill patients in Nevada were allegedly bused out of state with no one to help them upon arrival. (Photo by neovain, via Flickr)
A schizophrenic man bused with a one-way ticket, no cash and a few-days-supply of meds from Las Vegas to Sacramento earlier this year has filed a federal class action lawsuit against the state agencies he says abandoned him and at least 1,500 other mentally ill patients. Those patients were bused to nearly every state in the nation, many to major cities like San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Jose.
Graveyard Dig Reveals 1,400 Bodies, Personal Items at Valley Medical Center Site
Jun 13, 2013 by Jennifer Wadsworth Culture Comments (2)
The potter’s field dig Thursday turned up almost 1,400 bodies as researches carefully tried to preserve the remains of San Jose’s poor and indigent between the late 1800s and 1920s.
Archaeologists and osteologists unearthed skeletal remains in unmarked redwood caskets from a pauper’s graveyard Thursday morning. In final excavations to ready the site for Valley Medical Center’s expansion, they found a clay smoking pipe, a wool jacket, an assortment of pocket knives and spectacles, among other personal items buried with the 1,400 or so bodies in the unmarked potter’s field, according to a county spokesperson.
San Jose State Lecturer Accused of Sexual Battery No Longer with School
Jun 13, 2013 by Christiana Cobb Culture Comments (2)
San Jose State University’s police department has received seven sexual assaults reports since June 2012, one of which involved a former faculty member.
San Jose State University no longer employs a lecturer accused of sexual battery by a student, according to SJSU President Mohammad Qayoumi.
The SONGS Remains the Same
Jun 13, 2013 by Peter Allen Business, Culture Comments (1)
The San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) will finally close after a lengthy and expensive effort to keep the power plant operational.
Last Friday, Edison International—one of the largest investor-owned utilities in the country—announced that it would permanently retire the troubled San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS). The decision ended 18 months of uncertainty for Southern California Edison (SCE) and San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) customers, after a January 2012 leak caused the plant to be shut down. The shutdown and now retirement of the plant has made our state’s energy future uncertain.
County Makes Correct Call on Jail Letters
Jun 13, 2013 by Rich Robinson Politics, Culture Comments (10)
County jails are studying how to handle the mail of inmates to keep out contraband. (Photo courtesy of National Geographic)
Most people do not consider jail inmates to be an empathic interest group. But many in custody are innocent, as they have not yet been proven guilty, and as a matter of law and right they must be treated justly. That’s why the Santa Clara County Department of Corrections (DOC) was right in halting a new proposal to limit mail in county jails.
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