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Feb 24, 2014

Policy Watch: Your weekly tip sheet for what’s going on in your community.

City of Sunnyvale  Tentative presentation dates for council-ranked study issues The Sunnyvale City Council is setting the dates for study issues that the Council plans to take up throughout the year. Staff is making the recommendations based on departmental workloads and available resources. Highlights include moving forward with a minimum wage ordinance in Sunnyvale.  Check out the full list here…

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Feb 24, 2014

Immigration Reform – Making Communities Safer

During last month’s State of the Union, President Obama asserted that immigration reform will grow the national economy and shrink our deficits.  If that isn’t enough to support reform, consider another benefit: it will make our neighborhoods safer.  As a former criminal prosecutor, I saw that successful crime prevention grows from the roots of a community.  Authorities respond to and investigate information…

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Feb 20, 2014

A Community Approach for a Common Sense Law

After 16 years, it’s finally happening: common sense.  Immigrant communities and advocacy  organizations from all over the state have been waiting 16 years for a bill to allow driver’s licenses for all Californians regardless of immigration status, and this past October, that wait finally ended as the Governor signed the bill AB 60 into law. Tweet

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Feb 14, 2014

Whopper of the Week: People Who Live in Glass Houses…

On February 6th, Jennifer Wadsworth wrote a column for San Jose Inside discussing Mayor Chuck Reed’s lawsuit against the ballot language published by the California Attorney General for his statewide pension initiative. She quotes Reed as accusing the AG of failing to give voters a “true and impartial summary” of the initiative. But Wadsworth fails to alert readers to the facts…

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Feb 11, 2014

A View from the Neighborhood: Budgets are Not Games

For at least the past four years, I took part in the City Manager / Mayor’s Saturday morning budget priority setting session under the dome with members of other Neighborhood Associations and the Youth Commission.  This faux-community involvement session is headlined as one of the ways that the Mayor & his allies will listen to the neighborhoods about our needs…

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City of San Jose  2014-2015 Budget Planning The San Jose City Council will take up next year’s budget today at a City Council Study Session, where they will discuss the results of the Telephone Budget Survey and the Neighborhood Association/Youth Commission Priority Setting Session. City Manager Ed Shikada will give an overview of the General Fund Forecast and highlight potential…

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How to Fight the Voting Haters

We’re coming up on a new election season, and in Silicon Valley there is a lot on the line for the people who live, work and vote here.  As we saw in places across the country during the last election cycle,  people continue to fight the idea that the most foundational right of political equality – the right to vote…

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Jan 31, 2014

And They’re Off!

Sports fans, the paper chase is on! FPPC reports are rolling out for San Jose, Santa Clara County and the State Legislature. We’re compiling total contributions and expenditures to date as they get released and we promise to update you over the weekend as we review interesting contributions and eyebrow-raising expenditures. Tweet

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