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What the demise of contentious housing law means for San Jose

A brewing battle in the California courts may lift San Jose from the mandates of a controversial law...

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Here’s what’s replacing San Jose’s beloved Flames Eatery

A new restaurant is opening in downtown San Jose at the site of a former meeting hotspot for...

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May 1, 2024 by

San Jose turns to AI for language translation

San Jose is expanding its language translation options in public meetings by using artificial intelligence. The city launched...

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BREAKING: Joe Simitian concedes after Silicon Valley congressional recount

Assemblymember Evan Low has won a contentious and highly-politicized recount in Silicon Valley’s open congressional race, beating Santa...

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Los Gatos community helps struggling residents pay rent

Los Gatos resident Shelly never thought she would struggle to make rent. But following a series of family tragedies and...

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Silicon Valley deluged by health care workers’ labor fights

A wave of labor disputes is hitting Silicon Valley’s overburdened hospitals as health care workers reach their breaking...

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A closer look at BART’s extension to Santa Clara

A closer look at BART’s extension to Santa Clara

Despite ballooning costs and delays, BART's much-anticipated extension in Silicon Valley is inching forward as pre-construction work begins on the transit agency's Santa Clara stop. Editor Nick Preciado digs into the update with reporter B. Sakura Cannesta, who covers Santa Clara and Sunnyvale.

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Zisser: The Israel-Hamas war should not break up Silicon Valley’s justice alliances

If this column were one of my many recent conversations about the war in Gaza, I would not need to start with the usual prefaces. But unlike those conversations, this column reaches people who are not close professional acquaintances in the local social justice community (mostly community leaders I met when I was San Jose’s independent police auditor) or Jewish leaders whom I know well. Alas, here are the prefaces. I am Jewish, have been to Israel three times and know people who were directly impacted by the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks. The attacks were brutal, cruelly targeting children and...