Author: Carolyn Schuk
Community
Grassroots Soccer: The Bottom Line is Fun
October 4, 2017
It’s a sunny September Saturday and Santa Clara Unified School District’s Curtis Field is full of the happy sound of...
Community
Celebrating Jewish High Holy Days Right Here in Santa Clara
September 27, 2017
Last week Santa Clarans near Chabad Santa Clara Jewish Center on Warburton heard something that until last year was never...
Community
Public Finance Advisory Ltd. And Their Private Finance Toolkit
September 20, 2017
Santa Clara has no money for its ambitious new $250 million museum-aquatics-recreation-community center. But the City Council is betting that...
Arts & Entertainment
A Musical Gift to Santa Clara
September 13, 2017
You’ve heard the expression, the gift that keeps on giving. Two years ago friends of Santa Clara resident Jan Lieberman...
City Politics
Two of Three Members of Council Ethics Committee, Charter Review Committee Chair Likely to Face FPPC Fines for Campaign Reporting Failures
September 13, 2017
At its Sept. 21 meeting, California’s Fair Political Practices Commission is set to find that Council Members Debi Davis and...
City Politics
Incoming City Manager Will Serve on Powerhouse Charity Board
September 13, 2017
At the same time the Santa Clara City Council approved the $550,000 compensation package for incoming City Manager Deanna Santana,...
Community
Swim Center Community Meetings: Tell Us What You Want to Hear
September 6, 2017
The community meetings that the City of Santa Clara is holding about the new Central Park complex housing the International...
Op-EdOpinion
BAREC And The Pied Pipers of Urban Planning
September 6, 2017
Poor BAREC. The former UC agricultural Bay Area Research and Extension Center at 90 North Winchester seems doomed to be...
City Politics
Levi’s Stadium Delivers $2.5 Million to Santa Clara, But Ongoing Disputes Dominate Marathon Stadium Authority Meeting
August 30, 2017
Separating Santa Clara City Council and Stadium Authority (SA) meetings was supposed to end the marathon meeting cycle. But if...
City Politics
Mayor’s Levi’s Stadium Audit Costs Taxpayers $1.75 for Every $1 It Finds Unbilled by the City
August 23, 2017
Consulting firm Harvey M. Rose Associates estimates that Santa Clara didn’t bill the 49ers for $114,000 in stadium-related work. That’s...





