The California Public Employees Retirement System is the largest public pension in the U.S., but it does not disclose a complete list of its climate-focused investments, nor the criteria it used to select them. 

It’s clear now, a year since California passed SB 826, that there is momentum toward closing the gender gap in company boardrooms.

County schools chief Jon Gundry offered conflicting accounts about flouting the Public Records Act—while under oath.

San Jose will consider revising the social responsibility clause in its investment policy for the first time since the Great Recession.

Teresa Alvarado retired from Santa Clara Valley Water District, but not before trying to wring a few more dollars out of the Golden Spigot.

Healthier Kids Foundation CEO Kathleen King makes a living on taxpayer money. In a small measure of sanity, she won’t get a public pension to boot.

Once in a while, real journalism rears its fierce head to expose issues that are actually germane to the public and need public scrutiny. San Jose Inside’s recent reports on the county Superintendent of Schools fall into this category.

Ex-mayor and part-time lawyer Chuck Reed will take another crack at statewide pension reform, reviving a campaign to cut public retirement costs and bolster his political legacy.

Failed Milpitas council candidate and patent attorney Rajeev Madnawat freaked people out in October when he threatened to leave an outgoing councilman “lifeless” and embarked on a social media rampage. But it appears Milpitas Mayor Jose Esteves is willing to look past all of that.

Liz Kniss termed out of her Santa Clara County supervisor seat at the end of last year, and it was assumed she would ride off into the sunset to finish her political career on Palo Alto’s City Council. During the budget cycle last year, the Board of Supervisors even gave her a parting gift of sorts, donating $47k to Palo Alto Animal Services—while she was running for that city’s council seat—even though it is not a county entity. But it seems Kniss may have been throwing around her own handouts in her final year on the board.

San Jose’s City Council will return to session Tuesday and discuss banning polystyrene food containers in the future, development of the west side of San Jose’s airport, construction of a new street for the BART line coming to Berryessa and terminating the mayor and council’s CalPERS contract.

Councilmember Pete Constant is leading the charge to terminate the CalPERS pension program for the mayor and City Council. Originally asking City Attorney Rich Doyle to study the proposal in June, Constant’s Dec. 19 memo, which suggests Doyle draft a resolution that gives notice of the city’s intention to terminate its contract with CalPERS, went in front the Rules and Open Govt. Committee on Wednesday and was unanimously approved.