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 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 4
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 South Bay Businesses Fined $115,000 for Covid Violations Over Holiday Weekend By Eli Walsh, Bay City News The most frequent violations were failure to submit a social distancing protocol to health officials and failures to post required signage. Read More 6
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 3
December 1, 2020 Demand for Food Assistance Soars in Santa Clara County By Silicon Valley Newsroom To sustain emergency response efforts, Second Harvest Silicon Valley has launched its largest holiday fundraising campaign ever. Read More 0
December 1, 2020 Op-Ed: Grace Baptist Church Stabbing Was a Tragedy That Could Have Been Averted By Shaunn Cartwright, Jethroe Moore, Pastor Scott Wagers, Sandy Perry, RJ Ramsay and Jamie Foberg The lives of unhoused people matter. Providing them the basic resources to reinforce that doesn’t seem like much to ask. Does it? Read More 10
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 19, 2020 Audit Slams California for Mismanaging Housing Crisis, Wasting Billions in Bonds By Jennifer Wadsworth The report describes how the state’s disjointed approach to financing affordable housing slows development and drives up costs. Read More 8
November 19, 2020 South Bay Schools That Resumed In-Person Classes Can Continue By Eli Walsh, Bay City News Schools that have resumed in-person classes recently will be allowed to stay open, despite the state’s strict Purple Tier protocols. Read More 0
November 19, 2020 Apple to Pay Santa Clara County $4.1 Million as Part of Multi-State ‘Batterygate’ Settlement By Keith Burbank, Bay City News Apple, which is headquartered in Cupertino, allegedly made misrepresentations about the batteries in some of its iPhones a few years ago. Read More 0
November 18, 2020 San Jose’s Reid-Hillview Airport to Close—But Not Until 2031 By Jana Kadah, Bay City News The county Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 to move forward with closing the East Side airport and figure out what else to do with it. Read More 11
November 18, 2020 Milpitas Mayor Rich Tran Flip-Flops on Proposal to Assess Homeless Residents By The Fly The mayor went from being ecstatic about the proposal to effectively opposing it by abstaining from the otherwise unanimous vote. Read More 22
November 12, 2020 New ‘Silicon Alleys’ Book Relishes Bizarro Side of San Jose By Gary Singh Singh, a “skinny, long-haired dude who roams the streets” picked out hundreds of 'Silicon Alleys' columns over 15 years for the book. Read More 12
November 11, 2020 SVO: There Was ‘No Intent to Do Harm’ With Racist Campaign Ad By Jennifer Wadsworth Leaders of the regional chamber of commerce refused to name the people responsible and offered little else in the way of context. Read More 31