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Monday, July 27, 2026

A look inside San Jose politics and culture

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Susan Ellenberg Casts Sole Vote Against Weakening Santa Clara County’s Sanctuary Policy

The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors moved 4-1 Tuesday to figure out how to water down its landmark ordinance.

A tourist with measles visited restaurants, stores and destination in several South Bay cities, prompting officials to issue a public warning.

Thanks to public opposition, the county stopped the project. But it should also condemn its parks division for conducting business in secret.

State Attorney General Xavier Becerra rejected an appeal from Santa Clara County to keep St. Louise and O'Connor hospitals open.

The courts are looking for volunteers to serve on the Civil Grand Jury for the coming 2019-through-2020 session.

As of today, only 11 percent of ballots remain to be counted, while turnout is on track to reach 66 percent.

A week after Election Day, voter turnout is on track to reach 60 percent while roughly 100,000 ballots remain uncounted.

Santa Clara County has started to ramp up its public education campaign to combat opioid use and abuse and curb fatal overdoses.

Participating in the project means that this county will have a better chance of sustaining its imported water supply in future years.

Though Palantir’s work with the county has an altruistic aim, some worry about its role in other controversial law enforcement contracts.

The Legal Aid Society of Santa Clara County—near-six-decade-old public interest law firm—is apparently verging on collapse.

Santa Clara County saw a steep increase in domestic violence-related deaths in 2017, which saw six more fatalities than in 2016.

More Santa Clara County voters cast ballots in the June election than in 2014 and slightly more than in the Tea Party-dominated 2010 primary.

The value of Santa Clara County’s taxable property hit an all-time high of $483.2 billion, according to the latest assessment.

California’s long-awaited primary comes Tuesday, which means it’s down to the wire for a number of hotly contested South Bay races.

A new report titled Dying to Work was released in time for May Day, a celebration of labor rights by nonprofit think tank Worksafe Inc.