The San Jose Downtown Association bestows the honor each year to a project that exhibits distinctive architecture and design.

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.

Is this finally San Jose’s moment for downtown to realize its potential as a vital and beautiful urban community?

A recruitment effort is underway to bring thousands of litter picker-uppers to South Bay creeks for Coastal Cleanup Day this weekend.

Steve Holmes represents the kind of citizen leader that we need in the years ahead, as the new paradigm of limited government requires more involvement from private sector volunteers, donors and visionaries. Mr. Holmes is all three and the group he launched, Friends of Los Gatos Creek, has already had a significant and positive impact on one of San Jose’s key environmental challenges.