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
Jun 29, 2015
Happy almost 4th of July readers. City of Santa Clara Public surveys on proposed Minimum Wage Ordinance The steady roll out of municipal minimum wage ordinances continues in Santa Clara with outreach for public opinion on their recent prioritization of a local wage ordinance. The ordinance includes increasing the minimum wage to $11 on January 1, 2016 and linking…
Jun 24, 2015
Here are some big takeaways from Manh Nguyen’s victory over Tim Orozco in yesterday’s San Jose City Council election: Tweet
Jun 22, 2015
Santa Clara County Adopting resolution to apply Living Wage to County employees Agenda Item Name: Adopt Board Policy Resolution adding Board of Supervisors’ Policy Manual Section 4.21 relating to the applicability of the Living Wage standards to County employees, and direct the Clerk of the Board to include Policy in Board of Supervisors’ Policy Manual. Tweet
Jun 15, 2015
Santa Clara County Inventory & evaluation of County-owned lands & opportunities to purchase other public lands, incl. former RDA properties Date/time/location item will be heard: June 18, 2015, 10 am, Santa Clara County Housing, Land Use, Environment & Transportation Cmte Tweet
Jun 8, 2015
Santa Clara County Creating a County Economic Development Strategy Date/time/location item will be heard: June 11, 2015, 1 pm, Santa Clara County Finance & Government Operations Cmte Tweet
Jun 3, 2015
The Gilroy Unified School District and the parents at Gilroy Prep are learning first-hand how difficult it is to provide any true oversight over Charter Management Organizations. Outraged by the lack of transparency, accountability, and support at Navigator Schools, Gilroy Prep parents are asking for the removal of the charter organization’s Executive Director, James Dent. Tweet
Jun 1, 2015
On May 26, 2015, Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT) formally announced his candidacy for the presidency. It wasn’t a surprise: Bernie had been getting out there a lot lately with some of his whacked-out ideas, such as—prepare to faint—free college education for all, a progressive tax system and breaking up dangerously large Wall Street banks (who are even larger today than…
May 29, 2015
The Whopper of the Week is back! Nothing seems to bring out whoppers like city discussions about land and housing. Recent debates over the conversion of land from commercial to residential use and over renter protection policies (like rent control) vividly demonstrate this correlation. Tweet