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The Fly: District 10 Cattle Call
Harry Mavrogenes, Claude Fletcher and Rob Davis are among the slew of candidates eyeing a run for Nancy Pyle's termed-out seat.
read moreTrash Art
At GreenWaste's San Jose facility, which boasts the nation's highest recovery rate among such facilities, garbage is a dirty word.
read moreBye Local?
Longtime South Bay and Peninsula grocers have two options: Go the way of the dodo or adopt new strategies to take on the big guys.
read moreGiants of the South Bay
The San Jose Giants may have lost a star in recent San Francisco send-up Brandon Crawford, but a few notable names—including Barry Zito and Pablo Sandoval—have been seen in the local lineup in recent weeks.
read moreThe Fly: Love Me, Love My Paychck
After asking the city’s workforce to accept 10 percent cuts in compensation to help avoid a fiscal disaster, councilmembers Kansen Chu, Xavier Campos and Nancy Pyle voted Tuesday against docking their own pay.
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Figone to Uncle Sam: ‘No Thanks’
It’s not that Debra Figone doesn’t trust the city council to spend money—it’s just that she doesn’t trust the city council to spend money wisely.
read moreThe New News
The Eight Annual Innovation Journalism Conference brings a new generation of journalists from around the globe to Stanford.
read moreThe Fly: Panic Room
Mayor Chuck Reed and most of the San Jose City Council took a two-hour tongue lashing Tuesday from city employees, retirees, union representatives and even staffers of several state legislators, then voted 8-3 to push forward with Reed’s declaration of “fiscal and public safety emergency.”
read moreLeopard Sharks Under Attack
Scores of leopard sharks have been found thrashing and dying in the shallows of San Francisco Bay from Palo Alto to Marin, as the cause of an apparent epidemic eludes baffled scientists.
read moreEmergency and Response
Mayor Chuck Reed’s announcement last Friday that San Jose is in a “fiscal and public safety emergency” was like a big squirt of gasoline on the smoldering heap of embers that is the city’s relationship with its public-employee unions.
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The Fly: DUI PR Pays Off
Before word leaked out through the usual channels that councilman Ash Kalra had been arrested and charged with a DUI early Saturday morning, Kalra and his chief of staff, Joseph Okpaku, were already in damage-control mode.
read moreAll Fired Up
After weeks of machinations, the kind that high-stakes labor negotiations frequently produce, the city of San Jose and its police union began talking directly to each other 10 days ago. It isn’t clear that either side is listening.
read moreFrankenfish
California braces for the arrival of a fast-growing genetically engineered salmon.
read moreDiaz Shilling for Loan Sharks
Manny Diaz, a former city councilmember and state assemblymember, is now a registered lobbyist for Community Financial Services Association of America, a trade group that represents the payday loan industry.
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