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Tordillos grows fundraising lead ahead of San Jose special election

The special election for the District 3 San Jose City Council seat is Tuesday, with stakeholders spending their final dollars to help elect the next downtown representative. In campaign finance filings posted Monday, Planning Commission Chair Anthony Tordillos grew his lead to almost $100,000 ahead of Latina Coalition of Silicon Valley Executive Director Gabby Chavez-Lopez....

San Jose landmark project dropped

Silicon Valley nonprofit leaders are going back to the drawing board after recently announcing the cancellation of a long-anticipated San Jose landmark project. San José Spotlight reported in May that nonprofit Urban Confluence raised more than $3.3 million over several years to build a towering art installation dubbed “The Breeze of Innovation” within Plaza de Cesar...

No favorites for Democratic Party in San Jose special election

The Santa Clara County Democratic Party doesn’t plan to narrow its dual endorsement of both candidates running to represent downtown San Jose in the June 24 runoff election. The party endorsed Gabby Chavez-Lopez, executive director of the Latina Coalition of Silicon Valley, and Planning Commission Chair Anthony Tordillos over five other candidates in the April 8 special...

Sharks Way celebrates San Jose hockey team

San Jose is showing love to the Sharks by permanently naming part of a downtown neighborhood after the national hockey league team. City leaders earlier this month renamed the corner of West St. John Street and North Almaden Boulevard to “Sharks Way” in an effort to connect the team’s hundreds of thousands of fans with...

East San Jose leaders burned out on smoke shops

San Jose leaders say stores selling tobacco, liquor and other illicit products are over concentrated on the east side of the city — and they are looking to temporarily ban new ones. Councilmembers Peter Ortiz, Domingo Candelas, Pamela Campos, George Casey and David Cohen introduced a proposal Wednesday to pause new smoke shops from opening in...