February 11, 2016 Op-Ed: ‘Big City’ Santa Clara Needs Full-time Leadership By Rich Robinson Santa Clara needs to come to terms with its new identity as a big city and update the way it does business. Read More 19
February 9, 2016 Op-Ed: Down and Out in Silicon Valley’s ‘Super Bowl City’ By Randle Aubrey In the South Bay—the actual Super Bowl City—it was “don't ask don't tell” when it came to the issue of homelessness. Read More 23
February 2, 2016 San Jose: Street Vendors Not ‘Clean’ Enough for Super Bowl 50 By Randle Aubrey Making San Jose easier to swallow for Middle America’s diabetic masses shouldn't involve sanitizing the streets of local color. Read More 10
January 27, 2016 A High-Speed Chase with San Jose Police at 1,000 Feet By Josh Koehn We don’t know that the stolen car barreling down a residential street lined with grade schools contains two minors, one just 13 years old. Read More 20
January 15, 2016 Water District CEO Beau Goldie Resigned, and We’re Better For It By Josh Koehn The Santa Clara Valley Water District put a happy spin on CEO Beau Goldie “retiring/resigning,” but let’s cut to the chase: He got canned. Read More 25
January 11, 2016 Soccer Fields—Yes, Soccer Fields—Hold up Super Bowl’s Billion Dollar Extravaganza By Rich Robinson NIMBYs in Santa Clara are attempting to detract from Super Bowl 50 under the guise of fighting for children, Rich Robinson writes. Read More 23
January 11, 2016 SJ Libraries Waste Money with New Screening of Volunteers By Robert Miller Instead of using all of its new funds to address pressing needs, the San Jose Library System decided to fingerprint all of its volunteers. Read More 23
January 8, 2016 Violent Past of Darcie Green’s Husband Deserves Scrutiny By Josh Koehn The husband of Assembly candidate Darcie Green has a long history of abusing women. For a variety of reasons, the story should not be ignored. Read More 64
December 21, 2015 Rocketship Schools Join Nationwide ‘Hour of Code’ By LaToya Fernandez Elementary students at Rocketship schools across the Bay Area celebrated Computer Science Education Week by joining in the Hour of Code. Read More 1
November 23, 2015 Uber, Lyft Keep It in Family with Help from the Guardinos By Rich Robinson The Silicon Valley Leadership Group CEO and his lobbyist wife used their combined political power to help clients in the taxi-TNC fight. Read More 7
November 18, 2015 Silicon Valley Tech Awards Winners Actually Save the World By Josh Koehn Silicon Valley has always suffered from a split personality, and for that it can be thankful that it only half-resembles Wall Street. Read More 2
October 30, 2015 Time to Hold Uber to Same Standards as Traditional Taxis By Rich Robinson The traditional taxi industry has been through much of what Uber is experiencing now, which is why ridesharing companies must be properly regulated. Read More 53
October 23, 2015 Hillary Clinton’s Big Week Is the Turnaround We Expected By Rich Robinson Hillary Clinton, who has mastered the art of political timing, has become in these past two weeks a model for how to change perceptions. Read More 59
October 20, 2015 Silicon Valley: Richest Region in America Can, Must Do Better By Rich Robinson Things could not only be better in Silicon Valley; we have the power to set a path for other regions to follow. Read More 47
October 8, 2015 Don Edwards’ Indelible Legacy By Rich Robinson Don Edwards, who died last week at the age of 100, held a special place in the political prism of Silicon Valley. Read More 6
September 24, 2015 What We Know about San Jose’s Next Police Chief, Eddie Garcia By Josh Koehn 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. Read More 16