San Jose Inside

A routine light rail patrol exploded into a downtown shootout and high-speed chase Friday night, after a man shot at an officer and carjacked a vehicle, according to the San Jose Police Department.

Fresh off the July recess, San Jose's City Council reconvenes Tuesday to start a new fiscal year. With a pension reform settlement out of the way, it's time to talk trestle. The Willow Glen trestle

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

Kartma will employ formerly homeless people and equip them with not only the skills to brew gourmet coffee but to staff, stock, market and otherwise run a small business.

A federal lawsuit filed Monday levels new allegations of racial profiling by the San Jose Police Department.

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.

The sudden realization that most of San Jose’s lawmakers are law breakers is not the best way to end summer vacation. Not that they intended to end up on the wrong side of the law, of course.

Kathryn Steinle’s killing by an unauthorized immigrant in San Francisco has riled the national debate about so-called "sanctuary cities."

Silicon Valley’s largest vocational training and adult education agency, the Metropolitan Education District, has lost its accreditation to train teachers. The downward spiral has been a long time coming.

Public comments are the most impractical form of political communication ever devised by good government advocates.

At a certain point one has to wonder if this has been Superintendent Jon Gundry’s plan all along: change disclosure policies on consulting contracts; discreetly hand out a bunch of big-dollar deals; fire the internal watchdogs; and rule through fear and intimidation so any other objectors resign.

San Jose Police Chief Larry Esquivel on Wednesday announced his plan to retire in early 2016.

A bevy of suitors are expected to push for control of the organizing committee to raise Santa Clara County's sales tax for transportation improvements.

At the Vatican this morning and before an audience that included Pope Francis, San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo spoke about affordable housing as a solution to Silicon Valley's chasmic gap between rich and poor.

Congressman Mike Honda has spent more than $65,000 in campaign funds to defend himself from a House ethics probe. That's not why most donors give money to a candidate up for re-election, but how Honda targeted these contributors might be considered even more offensive.