San Jose Inside

The governor announced his pick of Teresa Alvarado, the San Jose director of SPUR since 2016, in a news release this week.

What’s being replaced to the tune of $9 million isn’t the physical HVAC system but the old, glitchy software that controls it.

Executive protection company AS Solution said it will help the DA as needed, and has even launched its own internal inquiry into the matter.

The initiative, which passed in a 9-2 vote, will come back for another reading and is slated to go into effect toward the end of September.

Silicon Valley voters will be using an entirely new system to cast their ballots in 2020.

On the heels of the San Jose mayor’s call for liability insurance from gun owners, the county introduced its own set of firearm-safety measures.

Supervisor Joe Simitian called the spending plan a “smart, humane and cost-effective” way to prevent homelessness.

On Aug. 1 the Santa Clara County Democratic Party voted unanimously on a resolution in favor of the DNC holding a climate policy debate. 

However, new legislation such as the transparency measures provided by SB 1421 may render the proposed pact feckless.