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Saturday, September 26, 2026

A look inside San Jose politics and culture

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

Political Advisor Alex Lee Joins 25th Assembly District Race

Yet another Milpitan jumped into the 25th Assembly District race to succeed Assemblyman Kansen Chu.

The apartment is slated for a 45-acre swath of land in the Calle del Mundo neighborhood and is part of a larger mixed-use development.

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 San Jose’s elected leaders quibble about equity in the city’s budget, another test of their fidelity to the principle is on the horizon.

The question of whether to raise taxes forged an unlikely alliance between the most conservative and most progressive council members.

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.