Since 1987, the San Jose Conservation Corps has enlisted thousands of young adults in job training programs, but nothing prepared them for what they uncovered while cleaning up parks and trails. A recent city audit found that some young adults weren’t trained to handle used needles, broken glass and other dangerous materials, which they encountered...
Longtime San Jose radio station set to be demolished
A building that once housed legendary San Jose radio stations KLIV and KRTY is set to be demolished and replaced with a warehouse. City planning officials greenlighted a proposal during a hearing on Wednesday from Scottsdale-based developer GO Industrial to demolish the 10,552 square-foot building at 750 Story Road in the city’s Little Saigon district. Plans call...
San Jose State students want recognition for Filipino farmworkers
Filipino students at San Jose State University said honoring a key leader in the farmworkers rights movement is long overdue—and they staged a rally to make their intentions known. With signs reading “Cynthia Teniente Matson Act Now” and “Campus Planning Board Act Now,” Students for Filipino Farmworkers protested today at the Arch of Dignity, Equality...
San Jose residents in fence fight with housing developer
There’s an old saying that good fences make good neighbors, but tensions between nearly a dozen San Jose homeowners and a home construction developer over fence heights have deepened an already strained relationship. Several homeowners living near the redevelopment of the former 15.7-acre Winchester Ranch Mobile Home Park in West San Jose are angry because...
UPDATE: San Jose abandons affordable housing preservation proposal
After years of deliberation and analysis, hundreds of public comments and heated jabs hurled between San Jose councilmembers, a controversial housing preservation proposal is dead. The San Jose City Council voted 9-2 to reject the Community Opportunity to Purchase Act, or COPA, which would’ve given qualified nonprofits the ability to make the first offer on...
San Jose parents frustrated by loss of college program
San Jose parents are upset over their school district’s decision to shut down a popular enrichment program and want to know why they are just now learning about it. San Jose Unified School District closed its middle college program last April, which allowed high school juniors and seniors to attend school at a community college...
San Jose advocates demand stronger police oversight
On the heels of a tumultuous year for San Jose police, advocates are renewing calls to give the city’s independent police watchdog more power. More than two dozen people gathered outside San Jose City Hall this week to demand the independent police auditor (IPA) have full independent investigatory powers over the San Jose Police Department. Organizers...
Silicon Valley leaders want to deliver faster internet services
Local governments are looking to create public-private partnerships to ensure high-speed internet is a central service to all South Bay residents. At a technology innovation forum hosted by Comcast, government and tech leaders gathered to discuss how large companies can work with cities to create faster internet services and ensure more equitable and accessible coverage. Elad Nafshi,...
Longtime San Jose sports club could become housing
A beloved tennis and swimming club that’s operated for nearly seven decades appears likely to be sold, demolished and redeveloped with dozens of townhomes. The San Jose Swim & Racquet Club is “under contract” to be sold to a developer, Dion Campisi, a real estate agent with Colliers International representing the seller, told San José Spotlight....
San Jose Fallon statue is heading to storage
After two years, work has finally started on removing a controversial San Jose monument. On Tuesday, construction workers started jackhammering the three-foot concrete pedestal of the Thomas Fallon statue, crumbling concrete and sending dust flying. The statue, located at the intersection of St. James and Julian streets, has caused public uproar for more than three...