We appreciate Joyce Chu’s Oct. 5. article, San Jose path could be renamed for Filipino labor leader, spotlighting the efforts and extraordinary contributions of Larry Itliong. Filipino labor organizers like Itliong played a pivotal, and too often overlooked, role in California’s labor history. Honoring his legacy is long overdue. But the proposed location — the...

“Vote No on Measure A” isn’t about “survival.” It’s about accountability and sustainable planning. It’s about protecting Santa Clara County from financial collapse. This isn’t the time to slip a tax hike through quietly in the middle of the night, just because next year’s ballot is already crowded with new tax proposals. Measure A is...

Five years ago, I stood with nurses on a picket line when Regional Medical Center (RMC) announced the closure of its Labor and Delivery Ward. Despite public outcry, the unit closed in 2020 — a devastating loss to the East San Jose community. After taking office as a Santa Clara County supervisor, RMC informed us...

I’ve been canvassing in downtown San Jose against Proposition 50. People who are for it counter my pitch as either: “You have to fight fire with fire” or “It’s only until 2030, and then we’re back to a fair system of congressional districting.” No one I know actually likes getting rid of an independent commission...

Across the country, policymakers are criminalizing homelessness. The intent, they say, is to attend to the unhoused and revitalize public spaces. But service providers know enforcement-based approaches won’t solve homelessness — they will make it worse. The federal administration recently issued an executive order that contradicts proven best practices for tackling homelessness. It even deployed...

Across America, young people are discovering the old promise of “go to college, work hard and you will find a good job” no longer holds. Hiring rates for recent college graduates fell by more than 20% in the past year,  according to BBC News. For the first time in more than 40 years, graduates now...

On Sept. 25, I stood alongside our partners and community members at the newly constructed coastal flood protection levee between Alviso Marina County Park and the Don Edwards Wildlife Refuge to celebrate a deeply personal milestone: the completion of Reaches 1 through 3 levees of the South San Francisco Bay Shoreline Phase I Project. I...

We strongly urge Gov. Gavin Newsom to pass Assembly Bill 572, a bill to protect grieving families from coercive interrogations by law enforcement, after the violent police killing of a family member. As sisters who lost our father to law enforcement — and experienced the coercion ourselves — this bill is deeply personal to us....

Laura Reyes began experiencing terrible pain on her shift at a local Burger King. She quickly went to management, saying she was very ill and needed to leave work. Management did not allow her to leave. Laura went back to work, fearing for her job, and the pain got worse and she started bleeding heavily....

Our country is at a crucial point, and the impact will be deeply felt in our schools. The path our schools have journeyed over recent years has been rocky and inconsistent at best, and the road ahead will pose even greater challenges and risks. Hopefully, we won’t have to go over the cliff before we...