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Saturday, September 27, 2025

A look inside San Jose politics and culture

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Wear a Mask! OK, But What Kind?

There is a wide variety of face masks anyone can use, including rudimentary paper dust masks, often used for home DIY projects.

But if people ignore public health guidelines about staying six feet apart and at home as much as possible, as many as 16,000 could die.

As Santa Clara County public health authorities battle a mounting pandemic, what they don’t know can actually hurt us.

We’re in this for the long haul folks, so buckle up, find a good book and please please please stay at home as much as you possibly can.

Drive-through testing has rolled out, giving local health officials more tools to map out the scope of the problems in the Bay Area and beyond.

All this pandemic news is overwhelming. We’ll do our best to keep you up to date on how COVID-19 is impacting life in Santa Clara County.

A recommendation to make DST’s funding conditional is slated to go before the Human Relations Commission at some point.

That is why Silicon Valley Council of Nonprofits calls on the donor community to continue—and increase—its support at this time.

At the the city of San Jose’s behest, KDF Communities agreed to allocate $15.7 million in bond revenue for property upgrades and tighter security.

It would be particularly meaningful if the city could do so in time for the 100th anniversary of the adoption of the 19th Amendment.

Candidates are knocking on doors while their sign-carrying minions work the phone banks in a last-ditch effort to #GetOutTheVote.

The motivations for a directly-elected mayor are the same as ever—concentration of power, self-interest and personal ambitions.

Nonprofits set up by legislators test campaign finance laws even as they underwrite good works by elected officials.

For several months now, residents have reported widespread lapses in postal service, from delivery delays to missing mail.

Blunders in creating the West Coast’s biggest transportation hub suggest that local agencies had better step up their game.

Turning this region into a mega-Silicon Valley would go a long way toward addressing our housing, traffic and homelessness challenges.