Your car already knows more about the road than you do. It can feel the pothole before your wheel does. It knows when you slam on the brakes at an obscured stop sign. It senses when traffic patterns don’t match the posted speed limit. The question is: what if this knowledge could be shared to...

Across our community, residents and leaders are looking for new ways to effect change, build infrastructure, create opportunities to advance the health of our region and bring more resources to local residents. Right now, leaders in the arts are demonstrating that innovative thinking, a collaborative approach and the tenacity to forge new pathways can help...

Earlier this month, the Federal Reserve lowered its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points and signaled it is prepared to make additional cuts this year. Lenders are always trying to anticipate the Fed’s action and have been preparing for this latest round of cuts for the past few weeks. However, the forward guidance and...

San Jose’s housing crisis isn’t just a headline; it’s a daily reality — particularly for Black families and other marginalized communities. As someone deeply committed to the well-being of the Black community in Silicon Valley, I have spent years working alongside Black residents, leaders and advocates to expose and confront the structural barriers that contribute...

Walk into any emergency room and you’ll see it: triage. Doctors and nurses move fast to stabilize, assess and keep patients alive. It’s lifesaving work — but no one would confuse it with treatment. That comes later, when the root causes are addressed, not just the symptoms. Right now, our homelessness response is looking more...

Last September, I took the very first train on Caltrain’s opening day of electric service. After decades of advocacy, hard work, setbacks, and doubts, it finally happened. That moment zooming up the peninsula on a quiet eclectic train felt historic, and now — just under a year later — the results are undeniable. In July,...

Last week, the National Coalition Against Censorship released a nationwide statement, signed by more than 500 individuals working across the arts and culture sector and over 200 cultural institutions. It reasserts the arts sector’s commitment to retain programmatic independence and resist pressures of self-censorship under a cloud of growing pressures from new federal policies, executive...

Last Friday, fire tore through the long-vacant MACSA Youth and Family Center in East San Jose. In the quiet aftermath, two familiar sights remain: the MACSA sign and the twin pillars that for decades welcomed generations of youth to a place that was more than a building. Those pillars now stand as a reminder —...