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 23, 2020 SEC Accuses Silicon Valley Developer of Scamming Investors By Jennifer Wadsworth A claim lodged this week in federal court describes how all but one of SiliconSage’s projects in the past few years failed to turn a profit. Read More 16
December 21, 2020 Op-Ed: Nurse-Patient Ratios Aren’t Just a Numbers Game—They’re About Safety By Jessica Smits Now is the time for hospitals to protect nurses so that they can continue to provide this work—work that puts them on the front lines of a pandemic. Read More 4
December 20, 2020 Veggielution Distributes 200 Soup Kits to Needy Families in ESSJ By Emanuel Lee Instead of its usual soup meal at the farm, the East Side farm packed the ingredients in boxes for families to make the recipes at home. Read More 4
December 18, 2020 Saint Louise Medical Staff Receive New Covid-19 Vaccine By Michael Moore Santa Clara County received its first 5,850 doses of the new Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine earlier this week. Read More 0
December 17, 2020 What Silicon Valley’s Sewers Reveal About the Coronavirus By Jennifer Wadsworth Because Covid-19 can be found in stool, even from people without symptoms, researchers are testing wastewater to monitor the virus. Read More 7
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 With Garcia Out, Who’s in Line to Become SJ’s Next Police Chief? By The Fly After 30 years on the force and four years as chief of the San Jose PD, Eddie Garcia has called it quits—at least in this town. Read More 11
December 16, 2020 Victims of Grace Baptist Church Stabbing Join Soaring Death Toll Among Silicon Valley’s Homeless By Jennifer Wadsworth The Nov. 22 tragedy points to the same dangers driving the 122 percent jump in homeless deaths Santa Clara County has seen so far in 2020. Read More 12
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 14, 2020 Ex-Church Elder Sentenced for Embezzling Millions From Saratoga Congregation By Kathleen Kirkwood, Bay City News A Cupertino man who paid cash for multiple homes with a millions of stolen dollars was sentenced to four years in prison. Read More 0
December 13, 2020 Santa Clara Co. to Chip in Funds for Women Impacted by Covid By Jana Kadah, Bay City News County leaders agreed to fund two programs for women who have been heavily impacted by the economic fallout from the pandemic. Read More 6
December 11, 2020 A New Gamer Lounge is Coming to San Jose’s SoFA District By Janice Bitters Called Guildhouse, the new lounge will be a “spiritual successor” to AFKgg Gamer Lounge, which closed in 2018. Read More 3
December 10, 2020 San Jose’s D8 Councilwoman Tests Positive for Covid-19 By Jennifer Wadsworth Sylvia Arenas announced today on social media that she tested positive for Covid-19, along with most of her family. Read More 0