As election results trickled in Tuesday night for the crowded Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors District 3 race, Assemblymember Kansen Chu and former Sunnyvale Mayor Otto Lee have the edge to advance to the November runoff. By the end of Super Tuesday, Chu secured 34.1 percent of the vote and Lee has 28.1 percent,...
LIVE BLOG: Election Day is underway in the South Bay
After a long and at-times grueling campaign season, South Bay voters on Tuesday headed to more than a hundred vote centers to fulfil their civic duty, casting votes at the top of the ticket for president down to the consequential San Jose City races that could shake things up at City Hall. 11:30 p.m. San...
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San Jose leaders to craft a suicide prevention policy
Nearly three years after one lawmaker proposed the idea, the San Jose City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved adopting a citywide suicide prevention policy to raise awareness and shift resources toward a mental health epidemic that results in the death of dozens of residents each year. Councilmember Raul Peralez in 2017 pitched the plan, which calls for...
Santa Clara won’t file more complaints against the 49ers as more money pours in
After claiming the San Francisco 49ers violated election law and threatening to contact the state’s political watchdog, Santa Clara City Clerk Hosam Haggag quietly recanted some of his accusations late Friday. Haggag said in a news release that he won’t file a complaint with the state’s California Fair Political Practices Commission against the NFL team...
What you need to know to vote on Election Day in Silicon Valley
Election Day is here, and hundreds of thousands of South Bay residents will flock to the polls to make their voices heard. California’s first year with an early primary election — in March instead of June — puts the country’s most populous state in a consequential position to help decide the Democratic presidential nomination. About...
Silicon Valley voters bombarded by attack ads ahead of primary election
With the March primary a day away, Silicon Valley candidates and their backers are pulling out all the stops and increasingly taking aim at one another in a slew of political ads. A barrage of campaign mailers, television ads, emails, phone calls and social media posts have inundated voters in the weeks before the election,...
John Leyba would bring fiscal responsibility to Santa Clara County
Former San Jose planning commissioner and foster kid John Leyba has two issues at the top of his list: health and human services. Running for termed-out Supervisor Dave Cortese’s seat, Leyba said he decided to join the race after watching the homeless population grow, whether in camps spread across downtown San Jose, along the Guadalupe...
Otto Lee focuses on homelessness, mental health in supervisorial race
After losing to Supervisor Dave Cortese in 2008, former Sunnyvale Mayor Otto Lee is making another run for the District 3 seat on the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors. This time around, Lee is running with the message that the county must act quickly to better address the region’s most pressing concerns of homelessness, lack...
Kansen Chu is fighting to make a difference in local politics
While most candidates are trying to climb the political ladder, Kansen Chu is doing the opposite — he is leaving the state Legislature to seek a local office in his hometown. Chu, who immigrated to California from Taiwan in the late 1970s to study electrical engineering at Cal State, Northridge, is running against three other...
Santa Clara County reaches last-minute deal with workers to avoid strike
Santa Clara County and the union representing 12,000 of its workers reached a provisional agreement late Thursday to avoid a strike after four days and nights of intense negotiations that ran into the wee hours of the morning. Workers with Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 521 — which represents more than half of the county’s...