Jul 21, 2015
It’s been close to 24 years since a small group of lesbian and gay Hawaiian’s had the audacity to think they could access the 1,100 rights and obligations afforded to “married” people. Those of us working for employment, housing, credit and public accommodation equality for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) people saw “marriage” as tangential to our struggle, and…
Jul 20, 2015
It’s a light week with most municipalities on summer recess, so we’re padding Policy Watch with some Neil deGrasse Tyson. If you wish to write a blog post from scratch, first you must make the universe. Sunnyvale Public Hearing on regulating short-term rental units The Sunnyvale Housing & Human Services Commission is holding a public hearing on regulating short-term residential…
Jul 17, 2015
Here we go again in the war against birth control. Yes, in 2015 a large contingent of lawmakers in Congress apparently won’t rest until all low-income women and families are unable to get birth control. The House of Representatives recently voted for a bill that would completely eliminate funding for the nation’s Title X Family Planning Program, the latest brazen…
Jul 16, 2015
When you think about foster care, what comes to mind? Warm, loving families playing Monopoly by the hearth? Creepy halfhearted inept caregivers who are in it for the money and are probably abusing the kids, who don’t buy them school supplies so they have to get them from Sleep Train donations? Tweet
Jul 13, 2015
Sunnyvale Affordable Housing Impact Fees The Sunnyvale City Council will introduce an ordinance and potentially adopt two resolutions to approve two new affordable housing impact fees: one for Nonresidential Development and one for Rental Housing. Tweet
Jul 6, 2015
San Jose Manh Nguyen found to have multiple campaign law violations Agenda Item Name: Hearing on Complaint filed by Tom Cochran on June 5, 2015 against Manh Nguyen and Manh Nguyen for City Council D4 alleging violations of the San Jose Municipal Code Tweet