Elementary students at Rocketship schools across the Bay Area celebrated Computer Science Education Week by joining in the Hour of Code.

The Silicon Valley Leadership Group CEO and his lobbyist wife used their combined political power to help clients in the taxi-TNC fight.

Silicon Valley has always suffered from a split personality, and for that it can be thankful that it only half-resembles Wall Street.

The traditional taxi industry has been through much of what Uber is experiencing now, which is why ridesharing companies must be properly regulated.

Hillary Clinton, who has mastered the art of political timing, has become in these past two weeks a model for how to change perceptions.

Things could not only be better in Silicon Valley; we have the power to set a path for other regions to follow.

Don Edwards, who died last week at the age of 100, held a special place in the political prism of Silicon Valley.

We reviewed approximately 400 emails sent and received by assistant police chief Eddie Garcia, who’s set to take over the department in January. Here’s what we learned.

Perhaps most damning of the allegations against Congressman Mike Honda, constituent services to biggest donors were leveraged for campaign donations. Meanwhile, regular constituents with real problems, like Larry Sacks of Santa Clara, were ignored.

Rep. Mike Honda (D-San Jose) is under fire after his legislative staff became a runaway train, transforming itself into a campaign squadron to fend off a 2014 election challenge by Ro Khanna.

Former San Jose Mayor Susan Hammer taught me that my voice was important and that I could—and should—participate in our democratic process.

I opened Microsoft Word and opened a new blank document to write my final weekly column for San Jose Inside. I am doing so with a heavy heart.

Why did Mayor Sam Liccardo get rid of his new spokesperson after just 10 weeks?

As I write my penultimate column, I reflect on the most critical issues confronting our region’s future progress and economic vitality. There is little doubt that the quality of public education is number one.

None of county Superintendent of Schools Jon Gundry’s secret contracts and subsequent under-sight reaches the level of the latest bad deal.

Writing once a week on the subject of education since being elected to the Santa Clara County Board of Education has been a privilege. In two weeks I will pen my 300th and last column.