Apr 7, 2015
Voters in San Jose City Council District 4 are choosing their city councilmember today. Or at least they’re supposed to. Election officials expect a dismal turnout for this little-known election but that doesn’t make it any less important. The candidate that takes over for the rest of the term left open when Kansen Chu was elected to the State Assembly…
Apr 6, 2015
San Jose Referral to ban City travel to Indiana City of San Jose Actions in Opposition to State of Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Public entity: San Jose Rules Cmte Date/time/location item will be heard: April 8, 2015, 2 pm Tweet
Apr 3, 2015
“When any city or state in our union makes efforts to curtail the equal rights under the law that all people are entitled to, it is incumbent upon us to stand up and speak out.” And that’s what four members of the San Jose City Council, under the leadership of Councilmember Ash Kalra, are doing. Speaking out against Indiana’s cockamamie “Religious Freedom…
Apr 3, 2015
** It seems we missed the last minute entry of Robert Varich, Moreland School District Trustee, vying for appointment to the Area 3 spot. UPDATE: Two more names were added to the list of candidates vying for appointment to Trustee Area 3: Rosemary Kamei, (mentioned below as a possibility) and Ramona Snyder, whose LinkedIn profile lists her current occupation as a…
Apr 2, 2015
Thousands of law enforcement officers from throughout the State of California, and some from out of state, paid tribute to San Jose Police Officer Michael Johnson in a moving tribute at SAP center. An hour long procession from a Los Gatos funeral home, through Campbell and into downtown San Jose included dozens of police agency cars and motorcycles escorting…
Apr 1, 2015
Mountain View City Council is moving ahead with plans to raise the minimum wage there to $15 an hour. It could happen this coming fall. Tweet