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Elections San Jose

April 11, 2025 by Brandon Pho

UPDATE: San Jose special election likely headed to June runoff

Gabby Chavez-Lopez continues to maintain her lead in updated results for the San Jose City Council District 3...

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Elections San Jose

April 11, 2025 by Brandon Pho

Are San Jose voters rejecting mayor’s agenda?

San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan has plans to end homeless camping and appeal to California’s center-right political sphere....

Economy San Jose

April 11, 2025 by B. Sakura Cannestra

San Jose retail growth among slowest in U.S., report says

A recent report ranks Silicon Valley among the slowest growing retail markets, though experts say there’s hope for...

Homelessness San Jose

April 10, 2025 by Joyce Chu

San Jose safe parking site full one month after opening

A San Jose safe parking site for homeless people living in their vehicles is at capacity one month...

Economy The Washington Report

April 10, 2025 by NOTUS

Democrats accuse Trump and his allies of profiting from tariff flip

Democrats want to know whether President Donald Trump and his GOP allies financially benefited from implementing and then...

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Santa Clara County

April 10, 2025 by Annalise Freimarck

Santa Clara County libraries brace for loss of federal funds

Libraries across Santa Clara County are bracing for a multimillion-dollar federal funding cut that could affect vital community...

The Podlight

How a new Santa Clara County supervisor is making her mark

Newly-elected Santa Clara County Supervisor Margaret Abe-Koga sits down with host Nick Preciado to detail her legislative priorities and how she's tackling some of the region's biggest challenges.

Latest Opinion

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Op-ed: Santa Clara County residents favor ranked choice voting

It was 1998, the year of the Ask Jeeves search engine, Titanic and the Spice Girls. California elected Gray Davis to succeed Pete Wilson as governor, and Santa Clara County voters adopted ranked choice voting (RCV) for local elections. More than 25 years later, the Spice Girls have had a reunion tour and no one is asking “Jeeves” anything. But voters in Santa Clara County are still waiting for ranked choice voting. It’s time to give voters what they want. Any legal obstacles that prevented implementation in 1998 have been removed. Six cities across California now vote with RCV. Santa...