February 25, 2021 California Passed 50,000 Covid Deaths, the Most of Any State By Jill Cowan The country’s most populous state averaged more than 560 deaths a day at its peak in January, according to The New York Times. Read More 0
February 10, 2021 Rising Catalytic Converter Thefts Plague Car Owners, Enforcement By Hiroko Tabuchi The pollution-control gadgets are full of precious metals and prices are soaring as regulators try to tame emissions. Read More 2
February 1, 2021 What to Know About the California Covid Variant By Jill Cowan Carl Zimmer, a science columnist for the New York Times, discusses where things stand and what he’s watching going forward. Read More 2
January 29, 2021 Health Care Unions Find a Voice in the Coronavirus Pandemic By Ian Prasad Philbrick and Reed Abelson Faced with the urgent need to protect their members and patients from the virus, labor organizations are pushing hospitals to do more. Read More 6
January 24, 2021 Nearly 1 Year In, Virus Death Toll in U.S. Surpasses 400,000 By Patricia Mazzei Unlike in the early days of the outbreak in the U.S., which was centered in a handful of big, mostly Northeastern cities, this surge is widespread. Read More 13
September 10, 2020 Ash, Smoke Cast Eery Orange Glow Over Santa Clara Valley By Silicon Valley Newsroom Forecasters expect the smoke-cooling effect to last for another few days, with highs in the 75-to-80-degree Fahrenheit range. Read More 1
August 4, 2020 Op-Ed: Automated Traffic Enforcement Can Ease Some of Bay Area’s Policing Problems By Ted Stroll It’s time to give cameras a chance, ending the Driving While Black phenomenon and reducing traffic chaos in Bay Area streets. Read More 20
March 20, 2020 Ethics Complaints Filed Against Feinstein for Selling Stocks Before Coronavirus Crash By Silicon Valley Newsroom U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein and three of her congressional colleagues face ethics complaints filed by nonpartisan watchdog Common Cause. Read More 15
December 11, 2019 Downtown Streets Team Faces Claims of Hard-Partying Work Culture, Gender Discrimination By Jennifer Wadsworth Zia MacWilliams left DST because of what she describes as a toxic culture that promoted heavy drinking and tolerated discrimination. Read More 38
September 26, 2019 As SJ Expands 5G Broadband Network, Cell Phone Tech is Called Out for Health Scares By Chris Rooney San Jose is set to roll out fifth generation of wireless technology for the masses, whether they’re ready or not. Read More 10
July 18, 2019 South Bay Activists Renew Calls for Palantir to Cut Ties with ICE By Nicholas Chan Last week, immigrant advocates gathered at Palantir’s Palo Alto headquarters, demanding that the company shut down entirely. Read More 6
January 17, 2019 Louis C.K. Jokes About Sexual Misconduct Scandal, Consent at Sold-Out San Jose Improv Show By Jennifer Wadsworth The embattled comedian turned his personal scandal into a punchline at the first West Coast gig as part of his comeback tour. Read More 4
November 14, 2018 How Charles Harder Went From Local Democratic Politics to Defending the Trump Family By Jacob Pierce Attorney and UC Santa Cruz graduate Charles Harder defends Donald Trump and helped Hulk Hogan shut down Gawker. Read More 11
October 26, 2018 Transgender Activists, Allies in Silicon Valley Protest Trump Policy: ‘We Will Not be Erased’ By Jennifer Wadsworth South Bay trans advocates joined a nationwide campaign protesting a Trump administration proposal to narrow the definition of gender. Read More 8
March 8, 2018 Facebook Fights Fakery by Burying Real Reporting By Daniel Walters For years, media outlets desperately chased the clicks promised by Facebook; now the social media giant threatens to destroy them. Read More 2
May 24, 2017 Lawsuit Accuses Cisco of Complicity in Oppression Abroad By Jennifer Wadsworth Adherents of a spiritual movement called the Falun Gong accuse Cisco of aiding and abetting their systematic oppression in China. Read More 3