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Are San Jose voters rejecting mayor’s agenda?

San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan has plans to end homeless camping and appeal to California’s center-right political sphere....

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San Jose retail growth among slowest in U.S., report says

A recent report ranks Silicon Valley among the slowest growing retail markets, though experts say there’s hope for...

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San Jose safe parking site full one month after opening

A San Jose safe parking site for homeless people living in their vehicles is at capacity one month...

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Democrats accuse Trump and his allies of profiting from tariff flip

Democrats want to know whether President Donald Trump and his GOP allies financially benefited from implementing and then...

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April 10, 2025 by

Santa Clara County libraries brace for loss of federal funds

Libraries across Santa Clara County are bracing for a multimillion-dollar federal funding cut that could affect vital community...

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Santa Clara to spend millions fixing community swim center

Santa Clara is scrapping plans to temporarily reopen its swim center this spring, and instead is pushing forward...

The Podlight

How a new Santa Clara County supervisor is making her mark

How a new Santa Clara County supervisor is making her mark

Newly-elected Santa Clara County Supervisor Margaret Abe-Koga sits down with host Nick Preciado to detail her legislative priorities and how she's tackling some of the region's biggest challenges.

Latest Opinion

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Op-ed: Santa Clara County residents favor ranked choice voting

It was 1998, the year of the Ask Jeeves search engine, Titanic and the Spice Girls. California elected Gray Davis to succeed Pete Wilson as governor, and Santa Clara County voters adopted ranked choice voting (RCV) for local elections. More than 25 years later, the Spice Girls have had a reunion tour and no one is asking “Jeeves” anything. But voters in Santa Clara County are still waiting for ranked choice voting. It’s time to give voters what they want. Any legal obstacles that prevented implementation in 1998 have been removed. Six cities across California now vote with RCV. Santa...