In 2009 State Controller John Chiang launched an audit of 18 California RDAs – Santa Clara wasn’t on that list, but Fremont, Hercules, Pittsburg, Richmond and San Jose were. On March 7, he issued his report. Perhaps the most surprising information – considering we’re talking about what proponents call...
Author: Carolyn Schuk
At an emergency meeting Monday, the Santa Clara Redevelopment Agency (RDA) and Stadium Authority (SA) voted to transfer $4.5 million from the...
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Thanks to California’s State Controller John Chiang, Californians (at least, computer-literate ones) can, for the first time, easily find out what public...
Long after all of us are gone, Yasir Afifi’s fourth amendment lawsuit will be studied by law students and invoked in cases...
Named for California state assemblyman Ralph M. Brown and enacted in 1953, the Brown Act mandates that public agencies conduct their business...
Arts & Entertainment
Santa Clara Ballet Founder Josefa Reyes Honored for 4 Decades of Dedication to Young Dancers
For almost 40 years the Santa Clara Ballet has been an integral part of the South Bay arts scene, thanks to the...
City Politics
Community
Josephine Rowen, 1926-2011, Championed Government Openness and Accountabiity
In the more than seven decades that she lived in Santa Clara, there were few public questions that Santa Clara community leader...
Proving there’s nothing like vaudeville for escaping a grim economy, this weekend’s annual Santa Clara Showtime offered plenty of entertainment for about...
In Jewish mysticism, the number three represents harmony that comes from the synthesis of seeming opposites. Certainly, the number three was an...
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It’s getting to be that time of year again. Show Time, that is. For the 29th year in a row, sponsored by...