March 18, 2019 SJ Mayor Sam Liccardo Calls for More Tax Cuts for Developers By Lloyd Alaban To help the city meet its lofty affordable housing goals, San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo wants to slash construction taxes on new development. Read More 37
March 15, 2019 As Residents Build Bigger Homes, Cupertino City Planners Turn to Software to Manage By Rachel Sandler Driven by an influx of wealthy residents looking to rebuild their homes, the city has turned to software to make zoning easier to grasp. Read More 3
March 14, 2019 Santa Clara County Coroner Seeks Help in ID’ing Man’s Body By Silicon Valley Newsroom Authorities are asking the public to assist in identifying a transient whose body was found on a fall morning last year in Milpitas. Read More 1
March 14, 2019 Rocketship Warned for Violating Charter with Late Audits, Costly Lapse in Teacher Credentialing By Jennifer Wadsworth The charter chain came under fire for submitting late financials two years in a row and losing track of credential status for some instructors. Read More 9
March 13, 2019 How California’s Broken Prison System Exacts Punishment on Families of the Incarcerated By Jonah Raskin A new documentary airing next week on KQED looks at the impact of mass incarceration on spouses, partners and children. Read More 6
March 13, 2019 Yeager Suspends State Senate Bid to Lead BAYMEC Foundation By Jennifer Wadsworth Decades after founding the Bay Area Municipal Elections Committee, Ken Yeager will take the helm as its PAC’s first executive director. Read More 6
March 12, 2019 Wealthy Silicon Valley Parents Among 50 Indicted in Sweeping College-Admissions Scandal By Jennifer Wadsworth A Stanford coach, tech execs and several Mid-Peninsula families are among the dozens implicated in the nationwide bribery scheme. Read More 14
March 12, 2019 Nurses Go on Daylong Strike at St. Louise, O’Connor Hospitals By Silicon Valley Newsroom Tensions between the county and a local nurses union hit a flash point today, when the union called a one-day strike at two local hospitals. Read More 7
March 11, 2019 Mountain View Police Arrest Man for Threatening Google Personnel By Silicon Valley Newsroom A man believed to be out for revenge after YouTube censored his video channel was arrested en route to Google’s local headquarters. Read More 3
March 11, 2019 SJ Mulls Ways to Offset Cost of Upping Downtown Height Limits By Lloyd Alaban As part of its quest to raise downtown building heights, San Jose will consider a unique funding proposal to offset costs to the airline industry. Read More 4
March 11, 2019 North San Jose Office Complex Bought by Local Investor Group By Rachel Sandler The deal was reportedly worth $47.8 million, and the buyers reportedly used a $33.5 million loan to finance the purchase. Read More 0
March 11, 2019 Morgan Hill Council Considers Commercial Pot Ordinance By Jaqueline McCool Officials in the South County city ruled out cultivation at a council meeting last month. But pot business licenses are still on the table. Read More 1
March 8, 2019 Adobe’s Proposed North Tower Panned as ‘Flat, Bulky and Boxy’ By Dan Pulcrano and Jennifer Wadsworth The critique is clearly a challenge to Adobe, which supplies tools such as Photoshop to the world’s creatives, to be a little more, well, creative. Read More 7
March 8, 2019 State Senate Hopeful Ann Ravel Says She Regrets Endorsing Judge Persky’s Campaign By Jennifer Wadsworth The former FEC chair said she feels full of remorse for being associated with a campaign that espoused victim-blaming rhetoric. Read More 23
March 8, 2019 Newly Expanded County Hospital System Requires Bigger Subsidies By Silicon Valley Newsroom The hospitals acquired by the county this month offer new stability, but they also come with a hefty price tag for local taxpayers. Read More 4
March 8, 2019 Gov. Newsom Signs Law Bolstering Charter School Transparency, Accountability By Scott Forstner SB 126 ensures that all private charter schools are held to the same transparency standards as their public counterparts. Read More 8