Mar 2, 2015
San Jose SB 3 – Minimum wage fairness act vote SB 3 will raise the state’s minimum wage to $11 per hour on January 1, 2016; to $13 on July 1, 2017; and beginning on January 1, 2019 and every January 1 thereafter, the minimum wage would be adjusted by the California CPI to keep pace with inflation. Tweet
Feb 25, 2015
The City of Santa Clara will be the next Silicon Valley jurisdiction to raise its minimum wage. At a goal setting session held Monday night, Council member Dominic Caserta introduced plans to raise the minimum wage in that city to $10.30 an hour, from the current state level of $9 an hour. The wage would move with the CPI every…
Feb 24, 2015
From the San Francisco Chronicle Disgraced former Santa Clara County Supervisor George Shirakawa Jr. pleaded no contest Monday to allegations that he impersonated a San Jose City Council candidate on bogus mailers that linked her to the communist government in Vietnam. Tweet
Feb 18, 2015
Speculation is already hot on who will run for two South Bay open State Assembly seats in 2016. In the seat that covers the area from Morgan Hill and Gilroy down to the Central Coast, District 30 Assembly Member Luis Alejo terms out in a year and a half. Karina Cervantez, current Watsonville City Council member and Alejo’s wife, is…
Feb 17, 2015
Undeterred by the political attacks, Santa Clara County immigrants continue to prepare for new immigration programs and will fight on for a path to citizenship Statement released by SIREN Services, Immigrant Rights and Education Network Late last night, a district court judge in Brownsville, Texas, issued a preliminary injunction that temporarily blocks the implementation process of the new immigrant deferred action programs. Tweet
Feb 17, 2015
San Jose City Commission Appointments: Ethics and Planning Council will interview the 5 applicants for the Ethics Commission [formerly known as the Elections Commission] and appoint up to 3 to terms expiring March 1, 2019. An applicant must receive at least 6 votes to be appointed. If any vacancy remains, City may continue recruitment efforts and bring forward additional applicants…
Feb 12, 2015
San Jose’s city worker unions are joining together to insist city leaders address the mess that is Measure B and not put it off until 2017, as the Liccardo administration is suggesting. As one union negotiator put it “these groups have no interest in kicking the can down the road and are looking for a public acknowledgement from the city…
Feb 11, 2015
County leaders hope a program to create summer jobs for teens will help cut down on the crime that traditionally rises that time of year. The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors voted yesterday to create 500 paid summer internship and job opportunities for at-risk and low income youth. Tweet
Feb 6, 2015
The Santa Clara County Board of Education seems to be getting the message that it can’t just give a rubber stamp to charter schools. This comes with the addition of new board member Claudia Rossi, elected last November. Wednesday night, the Board unanimously denied the appeal of the Wei Yu Mandarin Immersion charter petition in West San Jose’s Moreland School…
Feb 6, 2015
Progressives are lining up behind state legislative aide Tim Orozco in the race to permanently serve out the rest of the District 4 SJ City Council term. When the Santa Clara County Democratic Party voted last night to endorse Orozco, congressional aide Allen Chiu gracefully bowed out of the race and threw his support behind Orozco as well. Chiu chose…