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Sunday, October 25, 2026

A look inside San Jose politics and culture

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A local student supporting the Rishi Kumar campaign for Congress says her generation is sick of leaders beholden to corporate interests.

California got the OK from state officials to start collecting signatures to put a question around secession on a future ballot.

A bill that would’ve offered a lifeline to behind-schedule projects—like Google’s San Jose mega-campus—never made it to the governor’s desk.

Commercial developments in San Jose just got a little more expensive to build, but the extra costs will go to new affordable homes.

With little more than a month to go before the census deadline, county officials are making a final push to ensure a complete tally.

PG&E said blackouts would last just a few hours, but many San Jose residents said they were left without power for much longer than that.

Experts say the nation’s inability to create an efficient testing system is part of what’s fueling the recent surge in Covid-19 infections.

The latest iteration of the legislator’s affordable housing bill addresses some of the concerns that got a previous version vetoed last year.

It’s an ironic twist to the pandemic: When the health care system seems to need workers the most, it can’t afford to keep them all.

Just like today, optimistic predictions and phony cures accompanied the Spanish flu as the pandemic made its deadly sweep through the region.

Though they’re among the most vulnerable, unhoused people struggle to get tested for the coronavirus and find shelter for quarantine.

County Supervisor Mike Wasserman emphasized that the order is about “protecting the people who protect us.”

There is a wide variety of face masks anyone can use, including rudimentary paper dust masks, often used for home DIY projects.

The goal is to increase high-capacity testing and end a backlog that, at times, has left people waiting as many as 12 days to receive results.

No new deaths were reported, so the local death toll remains at 39. Meanwhile, the county reports that nearly 11,000 people have been tested.