Sometimes we get good ideas from comments. Sometimes we get them directly from readers sending us e-mails. A handful of you asked us to reprint the Mayor Gonzales letter which the Mercury News just excerpted. I’m happy to oblige since that means I don’t have to write much this week.
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Week-long Triple Digit Heat Wave Hits Region
A Red Flag Warning about potential wildfires also is in effect through at least Wednesday, because of soaring temperatures, gusty winds and low humidity.
Measure B Changes Could Go to November Ballot
Voters may get a chance to modify Measure B, if the City Council agrees to place proposed changes on the fall ballot.
Library Parcel Tax Wins with Overwhelming Voter Support
Measure B supporters popped the champagne moments after the first returns registered for the library parcel tax extension: a landslide victory.
Ash Kalra’s Library Tax Letter Breaks Campaign Laws
Councilmember Ash Kalra recently violated rules on elected officials using city resources to do campaign work. In an interview Friday, he readily admitted his mistake.
City Debates Library Tax Renewal
City leaders on Tuesday will consider placing a measure to extend an about-to-expire library parcel tax on the June ballot.
Mercury News Editor Calls Former Elected Officials ‘Jerks’ in Email
Earlier this year, a group of former elected officials lent their support to an initiative that would have secured funding for San Jose’s libraries. The initiative, which failed to make it on the ballot, had a number of critics, including one Mercury News editor known for sending ill-advised emails.
Council Meeting Focuses on Ballot Initiatives
The first City Council meeting of the 2012-13 fiscal year Tuesday will feature votes on approving language for three major ballot initiatives for November: a sales and use tax increase, a proposal to raise the city’s minimum wage, and an increase in the number of card tables at the city’s two casinos.
Library Initiative Mistake Highlights First Rules Committee Agenda
And we’re back! The Rules Committee gets to business Wednesday after a six-week layoff, and among the items on the docket are the city clerk’s library initiative gaffe, a push for less transparency regarding election swag, a review of public officials’ calendars and a City Hall gadfly offering his services to lead a department.
It’s All About the Neighborhoods
Steve Kline is an attorney who is currently running for a City Council seat in District 6. He wrote this column for San Jose Inside.—Editor
San Jose has failed its neighborhoods and citizens by inadequately delivering the essential city services for which the taxpayers have dearly paid in tough economic times. Overall, the city has a $2.8 billion budget. The budget is comprised of multiple funds, many of which the city has created to fund special interests and projects. Then, there is the battleground called the General Fund, which is only about 33 percent of the total budget. What the council hath created, the council can change. That fund should be more important than the special interests.
Reading Rainbow
Just when things seem to be going better for Mayor Chuck Reed, with a solid council vote on his pension reform ballot measure and his first-ever projected budget surplus, his predecessors have to go and steal his thunder. Instead of waiting for Reed to follow through on his plan to open four new libraries that closed the day construction stopped, former mayor Susan Hammer and council members Frank Fiscalini and Trixie Johnson trotted out their own plans to save libraries—show-offs.
Pegram to Run For Congress
San Jose’s favorite Evangelical leader, Larry Pegram, chose the biggest political event of the season to come out last week. (No, not like that.) At the annual Chamber of Commerce Political Action Committee (COMPAC) picnic, Pegram, who was a vociferous leader on the campaign to ban gay marriage in California last year, was spotted wearing a yellow ribbon, flagging him as a candidate. When asked what office he was seeking, the president of the Values Advocacy Council confirmed that he is eyeing Congress in 2010.
Book Review: Life in the Fishbowl by Ron Gonzales and Guisselle Nuñez
Ostensibly a manual to help future candidates to elective office understand what’s in store for them, it’s a bid to rehabilitate his reputation 18 years after his controversial mayorship ended.
California Wants to Force Insurers to Reward Homeowners for Fireproofing Homes
New rules proposed by California’s Department of Insurance would require insurers to take homeowners’ efforts to reduce wildfire risk into account when setting premiums. But they would still allow non-renewals.
Chromebooks, iPads Ready For Checkout at SJ Public Library
The San Jose Public Library has 600 Chromebooks and 3,000 WiFi Hotspots available for pickup.
SCC Sup Cindy Chavez Proposal Seeks to Remove Inequities Exacerbating Digital Divide
When schools switched to distance learning, the gap between those who did and did not have Internet access became very clear.
