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Seven candidates seek Morgan Hill mayor, City Council seats

The Morgan Hill mayor’s seat and two City Council districts are at stake this November, with all three...

Santa Clara wants better water, air standards for data centers

Santa Clara officials are moving forward with plans to update the city’s policies governing data center development, but...

Overlooked for housing, San Jose homeless residents face second sweep

For homeless people in San Jose, sweeps are a fixed part of their lived experience — the stress...

After strike threat, tentative deal reached with San Jose public unions

San Jose has reached a tentative contract agreement with its public sector union workers, likely averting a strike...

49ers-backed PAC supports Santa Clara candidate, opposes another

The San Francisco 49ers want to tilt the scales in the team’s favor on the Santa Clara City...

San Jose sets rules for delivery robots

San Jose’s experiment with autonomous food delivery robots is entering a new phase as the city prepares to...

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MacKenzie: Save healthcare services by taxing billionaires

Workers in America have been under attack for decades, with billionaires transferring ever larger portions of the nation’s wealth from our pockets into theirs. After H.R.1 or the “Big Beautiful Bill” slashed healthcare funding last year to give tax cuts to the wealthy, voters in Santa Clara County stepped up with Measure A to save our local hospitals. The working class in California can begin to rebalance the scales in November by voting yes on Proposition 40, the billionaire tax. Healthcare in California is in dire straits. We’ve seen insurance premiums increase and had to cut funding to essential social services. Worse, we are under attack from a hostile...

The Podlight

Who gets a say in Silicon Valley’s tech future?

Artificial intelligence and workplace surveillance are transforming jobs across Silicon Valley, raising new concerns about displacement and worker rights. Reporter Keith Menconi explores the new People’s Tech Coalition, the South Bay labor and community groups behind it and their push to give workers more say in how technology reshapes the workplace.

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