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San Jose Proposes Short-Term Loans for Furloughed Workers
The mayor wants to offer no-interest loans to the 500 federal airport employees who have been working sans pay amid the shutdown.
Here’s How to Help Victims of the Wine Country Wildfires
As wildfires devastating California’s wine country rage into their sixth day, the region remains in a state of emergency. Here’s how to help.
Silicon Valley Balances Stopgaps, Real Solutions to Homelessness
In Santa Clara County’s push to end homelessness, not all agree on how to balance short-term needs with long-term solutions.
Supervisor Yeager Proposes Tax Breaks for Urban Farms
Property owners who commit their land to agricultural use could qualify for sizable tax breaks under a plan up for discussion Tuesday at the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors meeting.
County Holds Forums about Cost of Living in Silicon Valley
Santa Clara County's Office of Human Relations is inviting public testimony about the cost of living in Silicon Valley.
Environmentalists Worry about Trash in Coyote Creek as Housing Advocates Say Give Shelter First Priority
Over the last few years—and especially during the Covid-19 pandemic—Santa Clara County's Coyote Creek watershed has become an inflection point for how the South Bay must address issues surrounding its homelessness crisis and the environmental impact of creekside encampments.
Battered, Burned, Alive: Time Will Heal Big Basin Redwood Wounds, But it Needs Big Money, Too
Big Basin Redwoods will undergo a transformation and be back after a massive rebuilding project. But what will it look like?
What’s Next for Guadalupe River Park and SJ’s Homeless Crisis?
No one is happy with the homeless crisis in San Jose’s Guadalupe River Park and around the city, but whose vision will fix it?
San Jose’s Watergarden Survived Homophobia, Political Shifts, AIDS—But Not Coronavirus
What the storied history—and now closure—of the Watergarden bathhouse means for Silicon Valley’s LGBTQ community.
Op-Ed: Public Banking Can Recharge South Bay’s Economy
Locally run public banks would be able to lend at reduced rates to our small businesses, cities, counties and school districts.
Smoke Signals: Legal Weed’s Gold Rush Days May End in a Bust
Celebrity investors. Headline-grabbing IPOs. New tax revenues. Is the cannabis industry getting high on its own supply?
2018: A Year in Review
In which we look back on all the strange, infuriating and preposterous things that went down in 2018 and say, “Sayonara!”
Op-Ed: A Modern Psychiatric Hospital Could Help Some of Silicon Valley’s Homeless
Would a modern state hospital be a means to address the root problem of homelessness in Santa Clara County and beyond?
Floodgate: How the Water District and City’s Comedy of Errors Became a Local Tragedy
An inside look at how thousands of homes in San Jose were evacuated due to heavy flooding and a comedy of errors that became a tragedy.
Flooding in San Jose Prompts Evacuations, Rescue Missions
Rising waters have prompted daring rescues and forced evacuations of residents, homeless people and office buildings in the South Bay.
