San Jose Inside

The race to succeed former San Jose Councilman Kansen Chu—and by extension his interim replacement, appointed council member Margie Matthews—begins in earnest at noon today.

San Jose Inside has learned that allegations of inappropriate relationships, threats of violence and overzealous internal investigations have split the city manager’s office into factions. On Friday, the office's third top-level executive will resign—but not before parting with a $100,000 severance package.

San Jose's newly sworn-in Mayor Sam Liccardo has named Councilwoman Rose Herrera his vice mayor through 2016.

Inaugurations have a way of oscillating between solemn occasions and celebrations. And then there’s the slightly absurd—a San Jose specialty.

In one of his first decrees as San Jose mayor, Sam Liccardo announced that he wants to expand the size of each City Council committee. But Councilman Don Rocha argues that while it's a good idea in theory, the move could have disastrous consequences.

An inauguration ceremony will be held Tuesday night for San Jose's newly elected mayor, Sam Liccardo, and four incoming City Council members.

After eight years as San Jose's mayor, Chuck Reed is picking up where he left off in the private sector. On Monday, Hopkins & Carley announced that Reed will join the Silicon Valley-based real estate law firm as a part-time attorney.

The state attorney general's office will host public meetings this week on the contentious sale of six nonprofit hospitals—including two in Silicon Valley—to a multi-state, for-profit chain.

San Jose Inside published its annual Year in Review list last week. Now we give you several predictions—some more likely than others—of stories to come in 2015. First on our list: San Jose's new mayor, Sam Liccardo, will show police the love—or something like that.

San Jose Inside presents a brief collection of some of the biggest stories that made 2014.

In response to anonymous online threats that police officers will be targeted on New Year's Eve, the San Jose Police Department announced it will deploy officers in two-man crews per patrol car.

San Jose Mayor-elect Sam Liccardo has a new city manager in Norberto Dueñas, and now he’s got his senior staff in place. Jim Reed, vice president of the San Jose Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce since February 2013, will become Liccardo's chief of staff.

Failed Milpitas council candidate and patent attorney Rajeev Madnawat freaked people out in October when he threatened to leave an outgoing councilman “lifeless” and embarked on a social media rampage. But it appears Milpitas Mayor Jose Esteves is willing to look past all of that.

Contrary to prevailing notions about poverty, technology is vital to the unsheltered, says Allan Baez, a project manager for pilot phone service Mobile4All.

Definitely makes for a wild week when the dullest thing to go down at San Jose’s City Hall was a bomb threat.