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
Mar 30, 2015
Mountain View Minimum Wage Ordinance – Regional Update and Potential Work Plan Date/time/location item will be heard: March 31, 2015 Receive an update on minimum wage ordinance regional developments and provide direction to staff on whether or not to proceed on a proposed work plan to achieve Council’s adopted goal of reaching a minimum wage of $15.00 per hour…
Mar 27, 2015
Late-comer to the District 4 SJ City Council race Tim Orozco managed to raise more money than his opponents in the most recent filing period, giving him a comfortable pile of cash going into the primary election. Tweet
Mar 27, 2015
Microsoft announced that it will require many of its 2,000 contractors and vendors to provide their employees who perform work for Microsoft with 15 paid days off for sick days and vacation time. This comes after months of public pressure by Silicon Valley Rising, a coalition of faith, community and labor groups, who have been working to improve the conditions of…
Mar 25, 2015
Last night it was announced that Rocketship Education would not being using any of the 20 charters the Santa Clara County Office of Education authorized in December 2011 in the Franklin-McKinley school district. A statement read at the school board meeting explained that the Franklin-McKinley Union School District and Rocketship Education had reached a settlement on lawsuit filed in February,…