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On Tuesday, San Jose took a large step toward environmental sustainability when my colleagues on the City Council voted to include my recent proposal for attracting a Polypropylene Plastic Purification & Recycling Plant (PRP) to San Jose on the list of approved city priorities for the coming six months. I am especially grateful to my...
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...
Housing nonprofit to San Jose Diridon Station area planners: Go big
As community members and San Jose officials work to revamp development and growth plans around Diridon Station, one housing nonprofit has been working on its own vision for the area — and it includes a lot more housing. Silicon Valley at Home on Friday unveiled an analysis showing how San Jose could feasibly allow up to...
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...
Serving as county supervisor would be ‘homecoming’ for Magdalena Carrasco
Running for the Santa Clara County Supervisor seat is somewhat of a personal homecoming for Magdalena Carrasco. A San Jose councilmember since 2015, the lifelong resident has her sight set on returning to the government building she worked in for 11 years of her life as a social worker, campaigning to fill Dave Cortese’s seat...
Audit findings put Santa Clara council, former convention center manager at odds
When Santa Clara councilmembers asked City Manager Deanna Santana to find an auditor to look into potential mismanagement of the city’s convention center, officials already knew who would get the contract. Public documents show that Sacramento-based TAP International submitted a “project approach” for the audit in 2018, nearly a month before the council ordered the...
Plans for San Jose’s El Paseo de Saratoga shift as residents weigh in
Plans for a major redevelopment of San Jose’s El Paseo de Saratoga retail center are evolving as local leaders and residents gear up for a major feedback session on the future of the site this weekend. The most recent plans submitted by developer Sand Hill Property Co. includes the hundreds of homes, amenity space and...
Tiny homes community opens in San Jose
San Jose’s more than 6,000 homeless residents will have more opportunities to get off the streets and find permanent housing with the opening of 40 tiny homes in the northeast corner of the city. The first “bridge housing community” in the city provides a safe and stable place to stay and supportive services while its...