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Thursday, September 18, 2025

A look inside San Jose politics and culture

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

Unions Woo Silicon Valley’s Weed Workers as Pot Industry Grows

Can unions organize cannabis industry workers, some stoned, some sober, others undocumented and still others with college degrees?

The former FEC chair said she feels full of remorse for being associated with a campaign that espoused victim-blaming rhetoric.

Will light be cast onto the wildlife-sensitive streams by this San Jose Light Tower? Who’s to say? But it won’t be you or me.

Thanks to a new law, police video once available only to authorities and few others will become public to anyone who asks.

When it comes to law enforcement accountability, the AG is at odds with the push by many in his own party to better police the police.

A transcript of the speech Jeff Rosen delivered at his Jan. 23, 2019, swearing-in to a third term as district attorney.

Fly unearthed a heavily redacted log of sexual misconduct claims against employees of the Santa Clara County DA’s Office.

Bay Area Democratic Assemblyman Tony Thurmond declared victory Saturday as the state’s new superintendent of public instruction.

Garbage haulers, cemetery operators and public safety unions spent heavily to hit Susan Ellenberg with attack mailers, to little effect.

Women and non-binary people in San Jose are at a crossroads and City Manager Dave Sykes may decide our direction for generations.

In his 16 years as governor, Jerry Brown has signed nearly 20,000 bills, including 1,016 this year and the final one on Sunday.

Sam Liccardo almost had to stay home from a business delegation to Seattle—until the SVO, invoking Beyoncé, gave him an out.

Santa Clara has called off its long-running candidate forums in one of the most consequential election years in the city’s history.

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

San Jose’s civilian cop monitor is stepping down, citing the police union’s personal attacks as a distraction to community-led reforms.

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