San Jose Inside

Voters will decide this fall whether to grant the city’s retirement governance boards full autonomy, if the City Council votes to place the measure on the November ballot.

A proposal making its way to the City Council this week would relax some of the disability retirement rules for public safety workers imposed by voter-approved pension reforms.

Longtime Mike Honda supporter and fundraiser Rich Robinson offers a humorous look at political debates in his recent column. But he sells the voters a little short.

The Santa Clara County Democratic Central Committee (DCC) finalized its endorsements for the June primary, giving three sole and two dual endorsements in San Jose’s five City Council races.

Though it boasts some of the highest median incomes in the nation, Silicon Valley also claims one of the greatest disparities between men and women’s earnings.

Debates make no difference in campaigns, especially in races where one candidate is so strong, that to share a stage with their opponent is a waste of time for the electorate and themselves.

A local sports columnist says not only will the Oakland A's never come to San Jose, the team hardly stood a chance of moving here in the first place.

More than 100 volunteers, including the highly-energized San Jose Sharks Foundation, recently came out to help build a playground in one pleasant day of sweaty grunt work.

San Jose Inside's company parent, Metro, picked up some newspaper siblings this week when it acquired the Gilroy Dispatch, Morgan Hill Times, Hollister Free Lance and Good Times in Santa Cruz.

Councilman Don Rocha wants to amend the city’s pension reforms to solve what he deems a more pressing problem: employee retention.

The San Jose Police Department blotter for March 30-31 includes a late night shooting downtown and a man who was shot while standing in his driveway.

Every middle and high school student in San Jose should be required to see and discuss the film 'Cesar Chavez: An American Hero.' His story still resonates with today's struggle for education reform.

A federal lawmaker wants regulators to re-think the way they clean up some of the most toxic waste sites in the nation.

Councilmember Ash Kalra recently violated rules on elected officials using city resources to do campaign work. In an interview Friday, he readily admitted his mistake.

Republic Services, the company that runs Newby Island landfill, owes its workers nearly $2.6 million in back pay, according to San Jose’s city attorneys.