The California Independent System Operator issued a statewide Flex Alert for today from 4 to 9pm, calling for voluntary electricity conservation.

The first poll results in the San Jose mayor general election campaign, of 674 likely city voters polled in the last week of July, showed Chavez leading slightly with 38% of the initial vote preference and Mahan with 37%, with one-fourth of the polled voters undecided.

Jurors in the U.S. District Court in San Jose rejected claims by the widow of Jacob Dominguez that San Jose Police Officer Michael Pina had violated the shooting victim's Fourth and 14th Amendment rights.

Gov. Gavin Newsom has, for reasons practical and political, shifted toward an increasingly aggressive effort to enforce the state's laws to promote affordable housing.

The settlement ends five years of legal battles between the city and the National Football League team over management of the stadium, and requires the Forty Niners SC Stadium Company and its stadium management firm to pay the city $1,675,000.

The enhanced enforcement of the program, which will go into effect Oct. 13, includes sharp increases in fines – from 10 to 25 times greater – plus the permanent revocation of a permit for a third offense.

Opponents of the revised Sargent Ranch plan say it would still disturb wildlife and tribal lands.

Supporters swayed moderate Democrats by removing a provision that would have put fast food corporations on the hook for labor violations at franchise locations, but industry lobbying and opposition from his own Department of Finance could convince Newsom to veto the bill.

Komodo Fire Systems of Morgan Hill worked with firefighters and volunteers from throughout the Bay Area.

The New York Times spotlights San Jose police salary negotiations as a measure of the high cost of living in the Bay Area.

As the 2022 election season enters its final quarter, the San Francisco 49ers – whose money boosted prior campaigns in both San Jose this spring and Santa Clara in 2020 – may be staying on the sidelines.

With time running out, state lawmakers likely will have to choose between alienating a powerful union and streamlining affordable housing development, as construction trades are at an impasse regarding their support for key housing legislation. 

The 49ers offered to pay $3.3 million to the city’s general fund, plus $650,000 to the Santa Clara Stadium Authority, which could spare the authority an additional $8.35 million in legal fees in a protracted dispute.

While the San Jose Police Officers Association claims response times are growing and predicted a “mass exodus” of officers because of pay and working conditions, the city counters that the department has the lowest vacancy rate in a decade, and its officers’ salaries are among the highest in the Bay Area.

The strike begins Monday at Kaiser facilities in Fresno, Sacramento, San Francisco and in San Jose at Kaiser’s San Jose Medical Center on Hospital Parkway. The Kaiser facility at the Santa Clara Medical Office Building on Lawrence Expressway also is one of the strike targets.

Any recourse to possible inaccuracies or omissions on Gilmor’s Form 700s is up to the Fair Political Practices Commission – and Santa Clara voters – and not via lawsuits, because of a legal battle she won in 2021.