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Safety is the top concern of any parent with children in our community. When I became a mom I finally understood that protective “mama bear” instinct that everyone kept talking about. When you have a child, you grow to love that little human more than you ever thought was possible, and of course, you want...
Zimmerman: What the findings of the U.N. climate report mean for San Jose
The Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was released last month. Since its release, the report has been lauded and derided, but its significance cannot be dismissed. The intergovernmental panel is not a political body and the report is not a political document. Rather, it is an amalgamation of the...
Rennie: Telecommuting—good for the environment and good for Santa Clara County
As Santa Clara County emerges from COVID-19, workers are returning to their jobs, which means drive-time traffic jams are returning, too. And that means air pollution is also returning to normal levels. Steep declines in air pollution were noticed early on in the pandemic, with the Environmental Protection Agency reporting in March 2020 that Bay...
Low and Newman: Gov. Newsom recall puts California’s future in peril
Eighteen years have passed since California first recalled an elected governor. That 2003 Republican coup, culminating in a global movie star without administrative experience ascending into the state’s highest official position, was somehow less extraordinary than the GOP takeover attempt we face today. The current recall election looms large as the deadline to vote in...
Bramson: Wasting our breath in times of need
With tens of thousands of people on sleeping our streets every night, I’m amazed at how much energy we expend either fighting common sense solutions or pushing for or against issues that won’t really move the needle in the end. Take the new safe parking site in North San Jose for instance. The city provided...
Cortese: The critical need for comprehensive school-based mental health resources
As many students return to their classroom this season, parents, educators and legislators are rightly focused on efforts to address learning loss experienced during the pandemic. But responding to academic impacts brought on by the pandemic is only part of what is needed in our educational recovery. There is no question that distance learning has...
Chung: Criminal justice reform begins with charging reform
Can you imagine a hospital where doctors receive little to no training on diagnosing patients? Can you imagine doctors who leave little to no notes after diagnosing patients? No reasonable patient would tolerate such lack of training, standards and professionalism. Similarly, no reasonable person should tolerate such lack of training, standards and professionalism at the...
EGD: Modern community surveillance threatens our human rights
When I was a teenager in the early 2000s, I remember how strange the house with a security camera openly visible on its porch was. Boy Scout activities would often lead us to knock door-to-door and the camera staring right back at us got no less awkward with each visit. Once, a friend waved while...
Staedler: How San Jose is aligning zoning districts with General Plan
One of the largest misconceptions about the city of San Jose housing crisis is the statement that potential development of land is solely dedicated to single-family housing. A common tagline in stories usually states, “In San Jose, 94% of the city’s residential land is zoned for single-family homes only.” That is simply not an accurate...
Rome: Newsom recall would signal a retreat on climate
We saw what happened when President Trump and his polluter allies took over the White House. We can’t let that happen in California. Voting “No” on the effort to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom is a vote to defend our environmental victories and continue the momentum for even bolder climate action in the years to come....