When Santa Clara City Council Member Patricia Mahan woke up from a medical procedure on Thursday, it was to a call from a Mercury News reporter saying there was...
Author: Carolyn Schuk
Are salaries paid to some of Santa Clara’s recent hires out of line or are they merely compensating for an uncompetitive benefits...
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A closer look at some members of City Manager Deanna Santana’s alumni club tells a story that’s hard to dismiss as being...
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Over Half New Management Hires Used to Work With Deanna Santana — and They’re Getting Big Paychecks
In the two years Santa Clara City Manager Deanna Santana has been at the City’s helm, her former San José and Sunnyvale colleagues...
Christmas is a time for many of our favorite stories. And when you say “Christmas story,” the next thought for readers is...
Lawsuits are a perennial fact of life for governments and public agencies — personal injury, ADA compliance, parking ticket appeals. They just go...
The question of directly electing Sunnyvale‘s mayor has come up regularly since the mid-1980s and City voters have repeatedly given the idea...
For David Ladd Anderson, long time Santa Clara Unified School District music director, the central thing about performing music isn’t technique. “It’s...
At its Nov. 12 meeting, the Sunnyvale City Council approved a Council district map and election sequencing for the six districts. The...
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Winter Drops Out of Police Chief Race, Citing “Contentious” Election Impact on Police Department
On Friday, Santa Clara Police Department Assistant Police Chief Dan Winter dropped out of the race for Police Chief, citing potential damage...