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Friday, January 2, 2026

A look inside San Jose politics and culture

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Like a Petri Dish: Tens of Thousands of California Inmates at Risk of COVID-19 Infection

An infectious disease’s transmissibility is defined as its reproduction rate. And the novel coronavirus virus is very good at reproducing.

Forty-two more people have also tested positive for the highly contagious virus, placing the total number of confirmed cases at 1,484.

Council members Raul Peralez and Magdalena Carrasco opted to withdraw their proposal to instead pursue a citywide rent freeze.

Engineers from Maker Nexus—a 3D printing company in Sunnyvale—channel their ingenuity to address a shortfall of protective equipment.

The city manager is expected to roll his budget proposal in May before the council approves the final 2020-21 spending plan in late June.

The goal is to increase high-capacity testing and end a backlog that, at times, has left people waiting as many as 12 days to receive results.

Local health officials finally released data about the total number of people tested and other critical data related to the COVID-19 outbreak.

The Bay Area retail cannabis industry reinvented itself overnight for shelter-in-place, and legal weed may never be the same again.

With social-distancing as the norm for the foreseeable future, museums and other groups are finding ways to connect online.

Public health officials announced the revised mandate at a news conference in which they also unveiled new social distancing criteria.

Law enforcement officials are sounding the alarm as people of Asian descent report being discriminated against because of the outbreak.

A shortage of chloroquine, which sells under the brand name Plaquenil, is one of the many unforeseen consequences of the pandemic.

The shutdowns are working. And California has no plans to grant President Trump’s wish of getting back to business as usual by Easter.

Roughly half of all patients at the Blossom Hill hospital have tested positive for coronavirus or are suspected to have been infected with it.

As the COVID-19 case count slowly ticks upward, the actual number of people infected with the coronavirus is many times greater.

Election officials are still working on tallying up the more than 493,000 ballots cast in the March 3 primary, which saw a 51 percent turnout.