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December 24, 2025 by

Earning $250K? Mountain View wants to help residents buy a home

The price of housing in Mountain View has gotten so high that the City Council is now looking...

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December 24, 2025 by

Santa Clara County new public defender is a familiar face

Damon Silver has for months led Santa Clara County’s public defender office in an acting role. Now his...

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December 24, 2025 by

Study shows food insecurity highest in East San Jose

During the last 10 days of every month, Julia pulls together whatever scant meals she can with produce...

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December 23, 2025 by

Santa Clara County sheriff won’t release Taser body-cam footage

Santa Clara County leaders promised full transparency when they approved the deployment of Tasers in the jails. Now...

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December 23, 2025 by

Developer for Los Gatos project warns of legal costs

The developer of a proposed 13-story apartment building in Los Gatos warned the Town Council last week of...

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December 23, 2025 by

Federal judge pauses changes to Santa Clara County housing grants

A federal judge has temporarily blocked efforts by President Donald Trump’s administration to upend federal funding for permanent housing....

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Cantrell: A genocide in slow motion

This month’s column falls on the first day of Kwanzaa, the day of Umoja — unity, which calls us to stand together to solve problems that threaten our very existence. In Santa Clara and San Mateo counties, there is no clearer example of the heightened risk to Black life than what is happening to Black mothers and babies. At the time we recorded the “Genocide in Slow Motion” episode of the “Dying to Stay Here” podcast, Black infants in both counties were dying at 7.9 deaths per 1,000 births while making up roughly 2% of the population. Today that rate...

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The Podlight

The cost of cutting SNAP: Families on the brink in Silicon Valley

The cost of cutting SNAP: Families on the brink in Silicon Valley

With federal SNAP benefits stalling, food insecurity is rising sharply across Silicon Valley. In this episode, we sit down with Leslie Bacho, CEO of Second Harvest of Silicon Valley, to talk about the growing demand for food assistance, the human toll of federal funding cuts and what can be done to ensure no one in our community goes hungry.