Aug 16, 2019
San Jose is now home to the South Bay’s first unionized cannabis dispensary. An announcement just after noon on Friday at San Jose City Hall detailed the partnership between MedMen and the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 5 union. This will be an expansion of the union partnership into the South Bay, as MedMen signed its first collective bargaining…
Aug 12, 2019
Santa Clara County Chavez referral for report on the development of Measure A Extremely Low-Income (ELI) housing at 5 County-owned sites Following passage of the 2016 Measure A Housing Bond Measure, Santa Clara County set a goal of creating 4,800 new homes for the homeless within 10 years. To date, the Board of Supervisors has already approved funding for over…
Aug 6, 2019
San Jose Councilmember Lan Diep is the target of an anonymous political poll released late May that alleges he “violated city policy” by dating a senior staffer and taking her with him on last year’s taxpayer-funded sister city trip to Japan. The three-day telephone poll — released to more than 400 households in Diep’s District 4 — asked participants how convincing…