Canna Cycle founders JJ Kaplan and Sam Penny launched their fledgling business to make the pot industry more sustainable.

Good Times is an affiliate of New SV Media, which publishes the Gilroy Dispatch—a sister publication of Metro and San Jose Inside.

Do you freelance? Have a side hustle? Then you should be paying attention to a major employment fight coming to a head in Sacramento.

San Jose and Santa Clara County join a growing movement to wean local governments off Wall Street by creating publicly owned banks.

In a proposed resolution, they cite concerns about human rights abuses, anticompetitive practices, privacy breaches and illegal location tracking.

Is this finally San Jose’s moment for downtown to realize its potential as a vital and beautiful urban community?

A landmark law designed to protect California’s environment has enabled profiteers to hold up critical projects.

San Jose will lose a bit of its soul when a 106-year-old business closes shop on The Alameda and moves operations to Santa Clara.

To help car-sharing take off in San Jose, the city plans to donate free parking to Zipcar for a year-and-a-half. The City Council will discuss the plan when it meets this week, along with a proposal to expand wireless Internet service in downtown.

San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed eats, sleeps and positively spits pension reform. He slammed through PR in San Jose with the help of voters in 2012, and while Measure B hasn’t accomplished everything he wanted, Reed’s doubled down with a proposed statewide measure (also being challenged in court). Getting the money to put a PR initiative on the state ballot takes beaucoup bucks, which is part of the reason Reed’s been speaking at conferences across the country the last year while rallying support from hedge-fund billionaires like Paul Singer and venture capitalist Michael Moritz. But the topic of one meeting the mayor took last month would dramatically alter his state pension plan.