March 23, 2018 Candidates Vie for LGBTQ Support in Bid to Succeed Santa Clara County Supe Ken Yeager By Jennifer Wadsworth Several people running to replace Santa Clara County Supervisor Ken Yeager made their case Thursday for the BAYMEC endorsement. Read More 15
March 21, 2018 Campaign to Recall Judge in Stanford Sexual Assault Case Morphs into a Culture War By Lauren Hepler The #MeToo ethos fuels the effort to oust Santa Clara County Judge Aaron Persky from the bench in an unprecedented recall election. Read More 107
March 21, 2018 Pregnancy Centers Battle to Overturn California Law By Barry Holtzclaw The Supreme Court appears poised to strike down part of a California law aimed to curb misleading advertising by anti-abortion clinics. Read More 0
March 20, 2018 By the Numbers: The Cost of Gun Violence in Santa Clara County By Silicon Valley Newsroom Troubling new statistics show the physical and financial cost of gun violence in Santa Clara County and the U.S. Read More 13
March 19, 2018 San Jose Falls Far Short of State-Set Affordable Housing Goals By Jennifer Wadsworth A new report coming before the City Council shows just how far San Jose has fallen short of its state-assigned affordable housing goals. Read More 9
March 19, 2018 Op-Ed: County Should Make Sunnyvale Shelter Year-Round By Guest Columnist If the Sunnyvale shelter closed, it would not only be a disservice to the people who stay there, but to the community at large as well. Read More 6
March 17, 2018 South Bay’s First Transgender Health Clinic Set to Open This Fall By San Jose Inside Santa Clara County will soon have a free health clinic dedicated to serving transgender and gender non-conforming patients. Read More 2
March 14, 2018 Santa Clara County Sheriff Outmaneuvers Re-Election Challenger for Key Endorsement By The Fly Laurie Smith won two key union endorsements, making the bid to unseat her that much more of an uphill battle. Read More 14
March 14, 2018 By the Numbers: Silicon Valley Bears Brunt of New Tax Law By Silicon Valley Newsroom A new report has come out showing that the five metro areas hardest hit by the new federal tax overhaul are in California. Read More 11
March 13, 2018 Op-Ed: Students Protesting Gun Violence Deserve a Voice By Maya Schaffer Students are taking a stand against gun violence, to tell our messed-up country that we are done. Enough is enough. Read More 23
March 12, 2018 Citing Transparency Issues, San Jose May Part Ways with Santa Clara County Housing Authority By Jennifer Wadsworth San Jose wants to wrest control of its subsidized rent programs from the Santa Clara County Housing Authority. Read More 10
March 7, 2018 Poll: Voters Likely to Re-Elect San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo in June By The Fly The first polling in the San Jose mayor’s race came out this week, showing that Sam Liccardo can coast his way to re-election. Read More 18
March 6, 2018 ‘Civility Roundtable’ Forum to Explore Limits of Free Speech By Stephen Perez The city of Mountain View will host a forum on Wednesday to discuss the limits on our right to free expression. Read More 4
March 5, 2018 Despite Rain, California Still Headed Into Another Drought By Kristin Lam California is still at risk of drought, despite the wet winter storms that pummeled San Jose and the rest of the Bay Area this past week. Read More 4
March 2, 2018 Rape Kit Testing to Speed Up Under Proposal by Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez By San Jose Inside Santa Clara County will study how to speed up rape kit analysis, which typically takes more than three months to complete. Read More 0
March 2, 2018 Santa Clara County May Ban Gun Shows from Public Fairgrounds By Silicon Valley Newsroom Santa Clara County may ban gun shows from the fairgrounds in response to the mass shooting that left 17 dead in Parkland, Florida. Read More 11