San Jose Inside

Madison Nguyen has been battle-tested and shown the courage that leadership requires. San Jose’s next mayor will need to make tough decisions, and we believe Nguyen would continue to bring common sense and balance to the dais.

In the end, it took longer to put former county Supervisor George Shirakawa Jr. in jail than the time he actually served. But that might not be the case for long.

A mayoral candidate who’s made economic development the main tenet of her campaign wants to get the city to speed up the time it takes to get building and planning permits.

South Bay’s last standing roller rink, San Jose Skate, will close by the end of the month, leaving a club of derby girls without a place to skate. The site in question is the same place that Councilmember Johnny Khamis tried to lease before coming under suspicion for conflicts of interest.

In front of more than 150 people Saturday at the Mexican Heritage Plaza, San Jose mayoral candidates gave their thoughts on why the next mayor has an integral role to play in leading public education efforts.

Santa Clara County desperately needs more people to staff polling stations for the June primary election.

Two years after the marijuana industry overturned local regulations on collectives, city officials aim to give it another shot.

The San Jose Police Department dispatch logs for May 1-7 include door-breaking burglars, masked bandits and gang busts.

President Obama delivered a passionate, if not brief, speech about energy efficiency Friday at a Walmart in Mountain View.

A report going before the San Jose Ethics Commission is expected to clear Sam Liccardo’s mayoral campaign of breaking city fundraising laws, save for one count of improper disclosure.

Silly season is here. Negative and untrue messages are now hitting the mailboxes of unsuspecting voters. In the past, these messages would be devastating. But the rise of absentee ballots has changed all of that.

Supervisors found that Code Enforcement cases are woefully backlogged and databases are out of date.

Ex-City Manager Debra Figone, who fought for years to cut the sick leave payout employees claimed upon retiring, cashed out $109,166 in unused hours when she left last December.

Judge Diane Ritchie scored a shocking victory in 2008 when she won a seat on the Santa Clara County bench, but now she's running for re-election and has no shortage of critics.

We owe a huge debt of gratitude to volunteer leaders and a few hundred citizens who have been cleaning our creeks, clearing our trails and preserving our parks while the City Council debates how to allocate its limited resources.