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Saturday, July 12, 2025

A look inside San Jose politics and culture

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SJ Council Tackles End-of-Year Budget Adjustments, New Fire Stations, Bond Oversight

To ensure that San Jose stays within budget for the rest of the fiscal year, the council will vote on some adjustments to balance the books.

Is a teenage Kiwi—who hasn’t even spent a decade in San Jose—the right musical icon to capture the city in a remotely authentic way?

As state lawmakers debate measures that would allow homeless students to park overnight on campus, dorms offers an alternate path.

The District 10 councilman pitched the idea in a May 22 budget memo, citing a protest against a Google land-buy as the catalyst.

SB 50 would have prevented cities from banning mid-rise apartments around public transit, but it failed to advance past a key committee.

Once the grocery chain lost its free parking hook-up below “The 88,” everyone knew its days were numbered.

Federal officials are reportedly refusing to meet with the California High-Speed Rail Authority after one of Trump’s Twitter tirades.

Joel Ortiz’s conviction for stealing millions of dollars through a SIM-swapping digital cash heist marked the first of its kind in the U.S.

Some $138.5 million won’t be going into San Jose’s affordable housing fund this year because of exemptions to market-rate housing projects.

Urban Catalyst said it wants to redevelop the building on 30 S. First St. into a 76,000-square-foot mixed-use project.

The owner of a Silicon Valley law firm and her ex-husband allegedly falsified records to bring in $52 million of foreign investment.

In an effort to simplify planning, San Jose mayor Sam Liccardo is proposing what would be a first-of-its-kind development fee.

The deal was reportedly worth $47.8 million, and the buyers reportedly used a $33.5 million loan to finance the purchase.

Thanks to public opposition, the county stopped the project. But it should also condemn its parks division for conducting business in secret.

The critique is clearly a challenge to Adobe, which supplies tools such as Photoshop to the world’s creatives, to be a little more, well, creative.

A Berkeley nonprofit says that two California wind farms could create 18,000 jobs green sector jobs.