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Saturday, January 10, 2026

A look inside San Jose politics and culture

San Jose Inside (https://www.sanjoseinside.com)

SCU Strikes Rare Balance with Plans to Build Teacher Housing Alongside Business Incubator

Proponents framed the project as exactly the type of development that San Jose needs to correct its stubborn jobs-housing imbalance.

The largest gathering of 2020 presidential candidates to date will converge in S.F. for the event—and at least one will swing through San Jose.

You might think a political party riven with infighting would be in a bad spot politically. But California Democrats are doing just fine.

State Sen. Jim Beall and Assemblyman Ash Kalra have asked the state to make the property available for a university housing highrise.

The East Side school district hammered for years by investigations and claims of corruption took yet another hit in the latest state audit.

We all acknowledge the need for housing, but we also know that this need has to be balanced with safety, jobs and community.

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

The project has been in the works for 13 years and is now in the final stages of approval.

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

The feds plan to open about 800,000 acres of public lands and underground federal mineral rights across across California to new oil drilling.

Kansen Chu sent local pols scrambling to rethink their 2020 plans when he opened up about his decision to eschew another term in the Assembly.

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

A new shopping plaza and parking structure opened at Santana Row, expanding the outdoor retail strip for the first time in a long time.

Court officials say there’s no “surplus,” however, and that the state needs a better way to assess how many judges each county needs.

For the third straight year Metro Silicon Valley won top honors for investigative reporting and its arts and entertainment coverage.

That plan would have cost California at least $20 billion—and up to $70 billion, by some estimates.