The state’s top elections official showed up in Mission City today to denounce an effort to shrink the number of council districts.

A darkened photo of the District 8 rep has been yanked from a Silicon Valley Organization PAC website in response to public outcry.

Celebrity investors. Headline-grabbing IPOs. New tax revenues. Is the cannabis industry getting high on its own supply?

Shawn Carter, better known as hip-hop’s first billionaire, is making his way into the Silicon Valley cannabis industry. 

The program would make San Jose eligible for state funds to incorporate minority and lower-income dispensary workers into the local industry.

SJSU will host an educational forum on cannabis record clearance on Nov. 28 in the Student Union Theater.

Some hoped Santa Clara County would take a cue from San Francisco and other cities that erased pot convictions in the wake of Prop. 64.

A report about the cost of living in Silicon Valley goes before the Board of Supervisors next week. Also on the agenda: a "living wage" ordinance, pro bono legal help for migrant children and a digital security program proposed by Supervisor Joe Simitian.