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03/14/2024

District Attorney Jeff Rosen has decided not to charge Rebecca Eisenberg for theft charges, which had been sought by Valley Water CEO Rick Callender when Eisenberg in January took home a copy of the report that accused her of the …

03/12/2024

Many Californians were undecided heading into Election Day on Gov. Newsom’s Proposition 1, which funds new mental health treatment facilities. As of noon Tuesday with about 5.8 million votes counted, the measure was leading by a margin of 50.3% to …

03/12/2024

As of 4:25pm March 12, Joe Simitian had amassed 16.8% of the primary votes, compared to 16.7% for Evan Low. Meanwhile, Former San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo's lead over the pair held steady today, with 21.5% of the votes in …

03/12/2024

Rock stars are not superhuman beings. As a result, just like everyone, they also have interests and hobbies. Therefore, rock stars engage in skills that interest them when they are not in the studio recording songs or making music. Occasionally, …

03/09/2024

Voters authorized the Legislature to go to standard or daylight saving time year-round, but nearly six years later no law is on the books. It takes a two-thirds vote, and also congressional action to go to daylight saving year-round.

03/08/2024

As expected, Mayor Matt Mahan easily won re-election, avoiding a November runoff with 87.8% of the vote, as ballot counting continued through Thursday.

03/07/2024

In addition to outright winners in local races in the March primary, Matt Mahan, David Cohen and Otto Lee, another 11 local politicians emerged from the early ballot counts as shoo-ins for November, because they are already comfortably separated from …

03/07/2024

Incumbent members of Congress, Ro Khanna, Zoe Lofgren, Jimmy Panetta, win easily in a preview of the November vote.

03/06/2024

As expected Mayor Matt Mahan easily won re-election, avoiding a November runoff with 87.6% of the ballots counted Tuesday.

03/06/2024

No other city in California except Santa Clara still has an elected police chief. Less than 20% of the municipalities in the state have an elected city clerk.

03/06/2024

Prosecutors said the Gilroy home of suspect Markus Beck was heavily saturated with propane gas from the kitchen stove, but did not explode. No one was hurt in the crash, the arrest, or at the home,

03/05/2024

Separated from the rest of the pack in early returns were: Liccardo, with 18,906 followed by Simitian with 15,363 and Low with 13,563 votes. These numbers include both San Mateo and Santa Clara vote counties.

03/05/2024

Incumbent members of Congress, Ro Khanna, Zoe Lofgren, Jimmy Panetta, win easily in a preview of the November vote.

02/29/2024

The primary turnout in the county in 2022 was just under 36 percent, and this year’s county tally is likely to be under 30%, based on this week’s trends.

02/29/2024

Paul Thomas Anderson directs movie scenes in  'BC Project' in the historic downtown setting.

02/29/2024

Ostensibly a manual to help future candidates to elective office understand what’s in store for them, it’s a bid to rehabilitate his reputation 18 years after his controversial mayorship ended.

02/28/2024

Rescue California, which could begin gathering signatures on its recall petition within a matter of weeks, needs about 1.31 million valid signatures from registered California voters to qualify for the ballot. Voters overwhelmingly rejected a 2021 recall.

02/25/2024

Google’s chat bot equivocated on pedophilia, conservatives say, and ChatGPT gave husbands a pass on doing the dishes. Is AI ready to serve as our moral compass?.

02/25/2024

Bay Area residents got a shock in with the hike in their January energy bills.  Those rates will increase—again—in April. These rising energy bills follow higher bills for insurance, food, water and medicine – not to mention the already-punishing cost …

02/22/2024

Santa Clara Police Department officers arrived in the area of the Feb. 20 fatal shooting, and arrested the suspect as he walked on the sidewalk of White Oak Lane.

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