Three decades of journalism experience, as a writer and editor with Gannett, Knight-Ridder and Lee newspapers, as a business journal editor and publisher and as a weekly newspaper editor in Scotts Valley and Gilroy; with the Weeklys group since 2017. Recipient of several first-place writing and editing awards, California News Publishers Association.
Federal education officials said San Jose State students have allegedly been threatened, shunned, and made to feel unwelcome in classrooms because of their Jewish ancestry.
Virginia-based AES cited project economics, infrastructure requirements, market conditions, community considerations and long-term investment priorities as reasons it won't submit plans for the project near Morgan Hill.
Work on a new tunnel is to be completed later this year, and the draining of the 1,271-acre reservoir and seven-year reconstruction dam reconstruction will begin early next year.
A 2019 mass shooting at the festival left three dead, including a13-year-old San Jose girl, with 17 wounded and hundreds traumatized. July 28 is the deadline to apply for victim compensation aid.
The statewide primary total approached California’s 44% average for the last five presidential primary elections. In the last five gubernatorial elections, the total voter turnout averaged just 33%. In Santa Clara County, the voter turnout was below the statewide total, just 39%.
Tom Steyer wrote a concession letter to his supporters, which he posted on X, saying it was clear he lacked the votes needed to make the runoff in November.
The Associated Press determined that Hilton had a big enough lead over Steyer to move on, predicting that Hilton would join Becerra on the Nov. 3 General Election ballot. The AP on Friday declared that Becerra had enough votes to move forward.
The ballot count is barely two-thirds complete, but that didn’t stop President Trump from jumping in to stir controversy and challenge the outcome, prompting multiple U.S. Department of Justice investigations in Los Angeles.
The June 4 totals, with an estimated 60% of the ballot counted, offered no mathematical or statistical reason to believe that third-place candidate Tom Steyer will be on the November runoff ballot.
As the counting progressed, the Becerra-Hilton battle settled into a steady pattern, as the pair widened their gap over Tom Steyer to nearly 300,000 votes.
The independent Emerson College poll of likely voters showed that Becerra, who was among the also-rans at 4% in early April, is now clearly leading the race for governor at 28%.
Democrat Tom Steyer faded and candidates Chad Bianco, Katie Porter and Matt Mahan were left in the dust in what the California Democratic Party called its final tracking poll from the California VOTER Index.