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Monday, July 27, 2026

A look inside San Jose politics and culture

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County Applauds Supreme Court Ruling on LGBTQ Workers’ Rights

In a press release sent to reporters early this week, county officials declared the resolution a victory for lesbian, gay and transgender rights.

Santa Clara’s off-leash dog parks are reopening this morning in accordance with Santa Clara County’s amended public health order.

While several inmates have been released from jails and been placed on house arrest since April, protesters said those measures are not enough.

Any county resident who wants to get tested for the coronavirus can now sign up online at projectbaseline.com or by calling 2-1-1.

The pilot program approved earlier this week will pay $1,000 a month to individuals ages 21 to 24 from June 2020 through May 2021.

Although the state offered guidance about how non-essential businesses can slowly reopen, such plans are not in effect at the local level.

Toni Taber levels the charge as part of a lawsuit filed by the ROV against the city to try to revive the labor-backed Fair Elections Initiative.

Until this week, the earliest Covid-19 fatality in the U.S. was believed to have happened on Feb. 29 in Kirkland, Washington.

Santa Clara County is gearing up for a surge of patients as the coronavirus continues to spread throughout Silicon Valley.

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

While the county previously reported how many patients had been laid up in hospital beds, it stopped sharing that number on its new web portal.

So far, 591 people in the county have tested positive, though officials expect the actual number is much higher due to the lack of testing.

The colossal coronavirus failure of 2020 is a clear sign that politics needs to be decoupled from a healthcare system meant to keep us safe.

Supervisor Joe Simitian, whose district encompasses the quarry, said he called for the update to “resolve this particular issue once and for all.”

As the COVID-19 death toll reaches double digits countywide, local health officials have yet to disclose how many people they’ve tested.

A day after the state urged bars to close and seniors to stay home, South Bay public health officials announce new measures to curb the outbreak.