San Jose Inside

Sam Liccardo picked up the last major endorsement in the San Jose mayor's race, getting the rubber stamp from City Council colleague and primary challenger Madison Nguyen.

Dave Cortese’s campaign in the San Jose mayor’s race has a couple new faces—and one unusual new storyline. Just a year ago his new spokesman, Jay Reed, was making painfully sexist jokes on Twitter. UPDATE: Dave Cortese has fired spokesman Jay Reed.

Though polling appeared to show San Jose voters are willing to pay more to restore public services, the City Council on Tuesday voted against placing a tax hike on the November ballot.

In the face of mounting criticism about its acquisition of a drone, the San Jose Police Department admitted that the process was not conducted in a transparent fashion and the drone will not be deployed before addressing community concerns.

National Night Out, the yearly crime-prevention event observed with neighborhood block parties, takes on greater meaning in San Jose, where an understaffed police force continues to grapple with rising crime.

Don Rocha issued a scathing memo Friday in support of a general sales tax measure while calling out Mayor Chuck Reed and his bloc of Measure B supporters on the council, as well as the Mercury News editorial board. On Monday, Rocha doubled-down.

Santa Clara County may extend its moratorium on medical marijuana collectives until it comes up with a plan to regulate them—or ban them altogether.

Campaign disclosure forms covering the first half of 2014 came due Thursday, giving political nerds their first chance to break down exactly how much money was raised and spent in the first half of the year. The numbers also show who's well poised for the November runoff.

San Jose’s polling on a sales tax increase shows voters are ready to approve new revenues for city services, especially for police and fire. But is a tax increase merited?

Voters may get a chance to modify Measure B, if the City Council agrees to place proposed changes on the fall ballot.

New details emerged this week regarding the San Jose Police Department's purchase of a drone, which has been described as a tool to assist the bomb squad. Privacy advocates aren't so sure.

San Jose’s parking enforcement officers are a notorious bunch. The cash-strapped city, not too proud to strip the couch cushions as it scavenges for revenue, has an army of these ticket punchers at the ready, ruthlessly hunting down the tardy. But a recent Smart Meter malfunction had me questioning what kind of program they're running over there.

Members of San Jose’s Levitt Pavilion Exploratory Committee recently had the opportunity to visit two sites in Southern California: Pasadena’s Memorial Park and Los Angeles’ Macarthur Park.

San Jose Inside has obtained an internal bulletin San Jose police chief Larry Esquivel sent out July 14, explaining that the status quo on smart phone searches has to change. But that could be the tip of the iceberg regarding 4th Amendment issues in Santa Clara County.

At first blush, a new poll makes it look like San Jose voters overwhelmingly support a sales tax increase. But a closer look shows that the poll is "a prescription for disaster."