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June 22, 2025 by

Cupertino all-inclusive playground welcomes everyone

Cupertino resident Alicia Schober got teary-eyed at the opening of a new, all-inclusive playground at Jollyman Park earlier...

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June 21, 2025 by

San Jose landmark project dropped

Silicon Valley nonprofit leaders are going back to the drawing board after recently announcing the cancellation of a long-anticipated...

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June 20, 2025 by and and

Santa Clara County homelessness hits new high

Homelessness has increased in one of the most expensive regions in the nation, a tell-tale sign of what...

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June 20, 2025 by

San Jose advocates demand release of alleged racist texts

A growing coalition of social justice leaders is demanding San Jose City Hall release text messages between councilmembers...

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June 20, 2025 by

State could strip Silicon Valley’s homeless funding

The progress San Jose and Santa Clara County have made to reduce homelessness could be halted as the...

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June 19, 2025 by

San Jose clinics push Black health to the forefront

For many, stepping through the doors of Ujima Adult & Family Services and Roots Community Health feels like...

The Podlight

Inside VTA’s historic strike and lessons learned

Inside VTA’s historic strike and lessons learned

VTA Board Chair and Campbell Mayor Sergio Lopez joins host Nick Preciado for a candid conversation about the historic VTA strike, his perspective on the labor negotiations and lessons learned by leadership.

Latest Opinion

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Padilla: San Jose leaders need to be held accountable

Politics is a sector fraught with unsavory decisions, hypocrisy and many actors who make us all at some point say: How the hell did that person get into office? On this last point, we had a moment just recently in San Jose where a group of councilmembers and political staffers were caught venerating Tammany Hall, perhaps this nation’s worst exemplar of graft and corruption. To anyone who knows the story of Tammany Hall and its infamous leader Boss William Tweed, it was a political organization that stole north of $1.5 billion in 2025 dollars from the people of New York...