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Thursday, September 24, 2026

A look inside San Jose politics and culture

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San Jose Receives $150K Knight Cities Grant to Fund New City Designer, Avoid RDA Pitfalls

After receiving a $150,000 grant from the Knight Cities Challenge, San Jose has hired a new city designer in Timothy Rood.

In a bit to improve transparency, San Jose will consider increasing the frequency of its lobbying reports.

San Jose this week adopted a $3.2 billion budget that allocates money for disaster response and re-housing people displaced by the flood.

The proposed Diridon Station Googleplex has San Jose officials seeing dollar signs while local businesses, residents suspect the end is nigh.

Whether it’s at the City Council or a school board meeting, San Jose is becoming unsafe for fans of free speech.

Two elected officials in San Jose want to earmark an extra $150,000 to expand mediation services for tenants and landlords.

San Jose was the only Bay Area city to take part in Sunday’s national human rights protest known as the Equality March for Unity & Pride.

Google is eyeing San Jose’s most prized real estate for development, which could bring thousands of new jobs and create a mass transit hub.

There’s a bit of a light fight in San Jose. Not everyone is on the same page about new LED streetlights and potential surveillance.

As part of a just-launched initiative, the city is asking the private sector for ideas about how to leverage autonomous vehicles.

Federal transportation authorities announced Monday that Caltrain will get the $647 million it needs to electrify the commuter line.

The City Council will consider whether to endorse a bill that would require landlords to notify tenants if a property lies in a flood zone.

San Jose approved a plan this week to pool money from residents to buy energy from clean sources. It will cost $55 million to get started.

San Jose will consider an ordinance to allow mobile home park owners to evict residents and close parks without redeveloping them.

A recent column in the Mercury News listed the best and worst local decisions in the last 50 years. Here’s a few more to add to the pile.

The decision came after four hours of heated testimony marked by jeers from landlords who called city officials thieves and communists.