San Jose Inside

John Hirokawa forced his former boss into her first runoff, but Sheriff Laurie Smith still managed to secure a commanding lead.

Garbage haulers, cemetery operators and public safety unions spent heavily to hit Susan Ellenberg with attack mailers, to little effect.

The retro sign at the first-ever Orchard Supply Hardware store in San Jose vanished, prompting outcry from preservationists.

A record-breaking 887,000 Santa Clara County residents have registered to vote in this year’s midterm election.

A mailer painting Rich Tran as a communist backfired by drawing fierce condemnation on whoever sent the offending literature.

A residential high-rise being proposed in downtown San Jose is vying for a few million bucks in city subsidies.

Full-service satellite locations are open Monday, but closed on Election Day while 50 drop-off sites are available.

San Jose cleared homeless people out of their illegal camps this year at more than 11 times the rate it had in 2013, according to a new report.

California’s school bond system amplifies existing inequities for the state’s public school students, a new analysis finds.

To create a more responsive government, we need to ensure that the public—and not powerful moneyed interests—are financing our elections.

Innovative thinking and political will must be combined in order to address and eliminate homelessness.

Google has been expanding its reach in San Jose beyond the scope of its planned headquarters in downtown.

Hundreds of people gathered outside San Jose City Hall for an interfaith vigil honoring the 11 victims of the Tree of Life massacre in Pittsburgh.

With the midterm elections just days away, a new poll shows that Californians are more passionate about voting this year.

San Jose Inside won two awards in the regional Society of Professional Journalists 2018 Excellence in Journalism contest.