Since the mid-1980s, there has been an increasing howl of complaint that public school teachers “make too much money” – reaching a crescendo around 2000. It’s an assertion made...
Author: Carolyn Schuk
In 2009 State Controller John Chiang launched an audit of 18 California RDAs – Santa Clara wasn’t on that list, but Fremont,...
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At an emergency meeting Monday, the Santa Clara Redevelopment Agency (RDA) and Stadium Authority (SA) voted to transfer $4.5 million from the...
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...
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In Jewish mysticism, the number three represents harmony that comes from the synthesis of seeming opposites. Certainly, the number three was an...