January 6, 2021 San Jose Mayor Calls for Sedition Charges Against Donald Trump By Jennifer Wadsworth Sam Liccardo’s comment comes as chaos grips Washington D.C., where a mob contesting the 2020 election results stormed the U.S. Capitol. Read More 48
January 6, 2021 Op-Ed: Is San Jose Ready for as Many as 112 Digital Billboards? By John Miller Imagine our freeways and gateways lined with electronic signs. Think how easily the sense of place we’ve worked hard to create can be destroyed. Read More 9
December 31, 2020 2020: The Lost Year By Silicon Valley Newsroom It’s been a millennium and a decade since two identical numbers divisible by 10 paired together in such a beautiful fashion. Read More 1
December 30, 2020 Watch Now: SJ Mayor Liccardo Delivers State of the City By Janice Bitters The mayor promised a message of "hope" after an unprecedented and challenging year in the South Bay city and the country. Read More 2
December 17, 2020 #ShopLocalSJ Campaign Promotes Small Businesses During Stay-at-Home Order By Silicon Valley Newsroom The initiative includes a fee cap on food-delivery apps, local business directory and a resource guide for mom-and-pop enterprises. Read More 4
December 16, 2020 San Jose, Santa Clara County Cap Fees for Food-Delivery Apps By Silicon Valley Newsroom The ordinances limit how much money food-delivery apps can charge mom-and-pop restaurants struggling to survive the pandemic. Read More 4
December 16, 2020 Op-Ed: Equity? Not in San Jose By Gil Rodan The Diridon area never seemed to be worth “revitalizing” before the prospect of Google money came into the picture. Read More 9
December 15, 2020 Op-Ed: Mothers Join Youth in Urging San Jose to Show the Way to Climate Safety By Linda Hutchins-Knowles and Maggie Dong As the Capital of Silicon Valley, San Jose should incentivize clean-energy solutions, not the fossil gas past. Read More 4
December 7, 2020 Santa Clara County Proposes a New Cap on Food Delivery Fees By Emanuel Lee Local leaders will consider regulating one of restaurants’ major costs when on-site dining isn’t allowed: third-party delivery charges. Read More 0
December 7, 2020 Santa Clara County Poised to Expand Quarantine Subsidies for Low-Income Residents By Jennifer Wadsworth The referral introduced by Supervisor Susan Ellenberg also asks that the county disclose some key data points to improve transparency. Read More 0
December 4, 2020 Down Payment Assistance Launched for First-Time Homebuyers in the Bay Area By Jana Kadah, Bay City News NeighborhoodLIFT aims to boost home ownership by providing $25,000 in down payment assistance to 359 eligible homebuyers. Read More 3
December 2, 2020 Op-Ed: Without Major Change, San Jose Affordable Housing Policies Are Doomed to Fail By Gil Rodan If we want to truly create an affordable city, we must first reject the naive notion that developers and real estate speculators want affordability. Read More 8
December 1, 2020 SJ Mayor Apologizes for Flouting Covid Rules on Thanksgiving By The Fly Sam Liccardo said he was one of eight relatives from five households who gathered for the holiday feast in violation of Covid-19 protocols. Read More 14
December 1, 2020 SJ Set to Expand Natural Gas Ban—With Controversial Exception By Jennifer Wadsworth Bloom Energy—a publicly traded fuel cell manufacturer—wants the city to give it a pass from its climate-smart policy. Read More 2
November 26, 2020 Zoom Together: How Silicon Valley is Spending Thanksgiving By Janice Bitters Families and public officials are getting creative this holiday season to keep some of their traditions alive. Read More 1
November 23, 2020 Two Killed, Three Wounded, One Arrested in Stabbing Spree at Downtown San Jose Church By Silicon Valley Newsroom San Jose police have arrested a suspect who allegedly stabbed to death a man and a woman at Grace Baptist Church. Read More 8