Author: Carolyn Schuk
City Politics
Elected Police Chief: Product of Personal Resentment and Confusing Ballot Wording
February 23, 2024
“We’ve always done it this way” is the principal argument being offered for retaining Santa Clara’s system of electing police...
Arts & Entertainment
Santa Clara Showtime: Rescuing Damsels in Distress for Four Decades
February 22, 2024
It may be hard to see what will rescue Santa Clara’s decaying International Swim Center, but there’s one Santa Clara...
City Politics
Follow The Money: Police PAC Spends $50,000 Opposing Appointed Police Chief, Appointment Supporters Spend $300
February 14, 2024
With less than three weeks to go before the election, the campaign for and against appointing the City’s city clerk...
City Politics
FPPC Declines to Investigate Stand Up for Santa Clara’s Political Non-Reporting
February 1, 2024
The California Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC) has chosen not to “pursue an investigation” of the campaign activities and unreported...
City PoliticsCommunity
Infrastructure: Santa Clara Needs $600M Today and New Income Streams Tomorrow
January 19, 2024
Santa Clara’s once-proud International Swim Center is Exhibit A for the urgency of the City’s unfunded infrastructure needs. For years,...
City PoliticsCommunitySchoolsSports
Swim Center Closed “Indefinitely” By Safety, Structural, Equipment Problems
January 17, 2024
As training for the summer Olympics is starting, Santa Clara’s International Swim Center (ISC) closed on Jan. 12 “until further...
City Politics
Santana Contract and Separation Agreement
January 2, 2024
Former City Manager Deanna Santana’s breach of contract and discrimination claim against the City of Santa Clara is simple: The...
Community
Soroptimist’s Christmas Store: Lighting the Holidays for Shoppers in Need
January 2, 2024
For 41 years, Santa Clara Soroptimists (SISCSV) have been turning the tables on the annual Christmas consumer free-for-all by giving...
City Politics
Judge Denies Challenge to Police Chief Ballot Measure
December 27, 2023
The trio that sued Santa Clara over the text of a ballot measure on appointing the city’s police chief —...
City PoliticsCommunity
Lawsuit Threatened Over Appointed Police Chief Ballot Measure
December 18, 2023
Nearly a week after the county deadline for filing ballot resolutions, opponents of appointing Santa Clara’s police chief are threatening...









