October 11, 2019 Skinner: To Fix Housing Shortage, San Jose Should Legalize Apartments in City’s West Side By Tom Skinner Let an apartment building rise in every neighborhood—especially in West San Jose, Willow Glen, the Rose Garden and Almaden. Read More 4
October 8, 2019 UPDATE: PG&E Confirms Widespread Power Outage in Santa Clara Co. By Grace Hase On the second anniversary of the Tubbs fire, PG&E has confirmed that it will turn off the power for nearly 800,000 customers. Read More 7
October 3, 2019 San Jose Draws Scrutiny From State Leaders, Other Cities Over Tax-Sharing Pact with eBay By Jennifer Wadsworth Locally, however, the only controversy over the treaty involved how, exactly, to divvy up the money once it starts pouring into city coffers. Read More 1
August 28, 2019 SCC Supervisor Dave Cortese Ruffles Feathers by Lavishing Grants Outside His District By The Fly The three-term supe irked some county officials by requesting a slew of grants that appear to some observers as politically motivated. Read More 20
August 10, 2019 The Veranda, County’s First Measure A Housing Complex, Celebrates Grand Opening By Kyle Martin Three years after voters approved the $950 million affordable housing bond, the first project funded by the initiative is finally finished. Read More 6
July 3, 2019 Cupertino Planning Official Faces Backlash for Calling Pro-Growth Activists ‘Neoliberal Fascists’ By The Fly Ray Wang is getting slammed online for trolling YIMBYs and making not-so-veiled threats about trying to get them fired. Read More 11
May 24, 2019 Santa Clara Unified Names Dr. Stella Kemp as Superintendent By Silicon Valley Newsroom The SCUSD board has unanimously chosen a successor to Stanley Rose as he brings his near-half-century career in education to a close. Read More 9
April 25, 2019 Bitcoin Bandit Sentenced to a Decade Behind Bars in Nation’s First SIM-Swap Conviction By Jennifer Wadsworth Joel Ortiz’s conviction for stealing millions of dollars through a SIM-swapping digital cash heist marked the first of its kind in the U.S. Read More 5
April 4, 2019 Editorial: Unshackle Measure A to Create More Affordable Housing By New SV Media The county needs to make more deals happen and gain as much leverage as possible on the voter-approved funds. Read More 25
March 15, 2019 As Residents Build Bigger Homes, Cupertino City Planners Turn to Software to Manage By Rachel Sandler Driven by an influx of wealthy residents looking to rebuild their homes, the city has turned to software to make zoning easier to grasp. Read More 3
March 11, 2019 SJ Mulls Ways to Offset Cost of Upping Downtown Height Limits By Lloyd Alaban As part of its quest to raise downtown building heights, San Jose will consider a unique funding proposal to offset costs to the airline industry. Read More 4
February 21, 2019 Taxpayers Demand Sunshine in Little-Known Special District By Jennifer Wadsworth Rancho Rinconada is struggling to adapt to a constituency that’s generations removed and a world apart from the one that spawned it. Read More 6
February 13, 2019 Former FEC Chair Ann Ravel Swears Off Corporate Cash in 2020 Bid for State Senate By Jennifer Wadsworth The lifelong public servant and inveterate regulator says she’ll heed her own advice about transparency in her campaign for elected office. Read More 7
December 27, 2018 2018: A Year in Review By Silicon Valley Newsroom In which we look back on all the strange, infuriating and preposterous things that went down in 2018 and say, “Sayonara!” Read More 1
December 21, 2018 Manual Recount Changes Fate of Orchard School District Race By Jennifer Wadsworth Election officials say a manual ballot recount changed the outcome in one of the smallest and oldest school districts in Silicon Valley. Read More 2
December 19, 2018 Santa Clara County OK’s $123M for 1,000 New Affordable Homes By Silicon Valley Newsroom The Board of Supervisors authorized $123 million in Measure A funds for hundreds of below-market-rate housing units in six local cities. Read More 7