Author: Carolyn Schuk
City Politics
Mayor’s Roundtable: Staying on Track When Pandemic and Protest Lands in Your Lap
June 9, 2020
The job of a small city mayor isn’t an enviable one. Much of the job is about fixing potholes, keeping...
City Politics
Santa Clara’s $34 Million Forecast Budget Shortfall: There Will Be Pain
June 3, 2020
That’s the message of the City of Santa Clara’s recently released 2020-2021 operating budget overview. “Given that our resources are...
Public Safety
South Bay Police Head Off Threatened Looting at Valley Fair
June 1, 2020
After nights of rioting and looting across the U.S., South Bay police are mobilized for similar looting attempts locally. Police...
Business
From Mapping COVID-19 Proteins to Making Them, Silicon Valley Tech Leads
May 28, 2020
It took almost a century between the first U.S. polio epidemic and the mapping of the poliovirus genome. By contrast,...
Business
Santa Clara’s Small Business Grants Program Reports For Duty
May 28, 2020
There may be questions about when Santa Clara County businesses will be able to fully open, but the City of...
City Politics
Sunnyvale Steps Up to Serve Residents, Businesses During COVID-19
May 20, 2020
In recent weeks the Sunnyvale City Council added some new COVID-19 programs to the roster of services that the City...
Community
Got a Smartphone? You can Help Researchers Understand COVID-19
May 15, 2020
Want to help advance scientific knowledge about coronavirus? Just pick up your mobile phone. At the end of March, UCSF...
Business
Single Proprietor Businesses See Little Help and Plenty of Catch-22s
May 7, 2020
In the war against COVID-19, America’s smallest businesses, sole proprietorships, may be taking most economic casualties. We’re talking your mom-and-pop livelihoods...
City Politics
Lunch in a Time of Coronavirus with Larry Klein
May 6, 2020
Sunnyvale Mayor Larry Klein is an unlikely social media star. But in the world of COVID-19 isolation, his low-key, guy-next-door...
Business
Even in the COVID-19 New Normal You Can Still Buy — or Sell — a House
May 6, 2020
Likely most of us think this is not a time to buy or sell a house. But Sunnyvale realtor Dave...









