Author: Carolyn Schuk
City Politics
City Desk: April 15, 2015
April 22, 2015
City Council 2015–2017 Goals: Downtown Revitalization, Creek Trail Extension, Restored Services and Better Asset Management, Governance Standards, Continuing Projects and...
Schools
49ers' Soccer Field Proposal Dominates SCUSD Board Meeting
April 22, 2015
The April 9 meeting of the Santa Clara Unified School District went past 11 p.m., largely due to drawn–out public...
City Politics
49ers Offer SCUSD Field Improvements, $15 Million to City in Return for Parking Rights at Youth Soccer Park
April 15, 2015
A three–way deal among the City of Santa Clara, Santa Clara Unified School District, and the San Francisco 49ers may...
City Politics
City Will Fund Convention Center Through June
April 15, 2015
At a special closed session last week, the Santa Clara City Council voted to provide gap funding for the Convention...
City Politics
City Desk: April 1, 2015
April 8, 2015
Levi’s Stadium Financials Beat Expectations with Under-Budget Construction and Over-Budget Surplus Not only did Santa Clara’s Stadium Authority end the...
City Politics
City Desk: March 25, 2015
April 1, 2015
Irvine Mission Town Center Proposal Adds Momentum for Downtown Revival As they say, if you build it they will come....
City Politics
Kolstad Raffle Tickets: No Evidence for More Than Mistake
April 1, 2015
Sometimes a mistake is just that. And that’s what Council Member Pat Kolstad’s Mission City Community Fund (MCCF) raffle ticket...
City Politics
City Desk: March18, 2015
March 25, 2015
Most Vulnerable Citizens Paying for RDA Dissolution When the State Legislature shut down California’s redevelopment program, they also shut down...
Schools
Education Desk Mar. 18, 2015
March 25, 2015
Middle College GPA Screw–Up Has Lasting Consequences for Students While Santa Clara Unified continues to pursue its fixation on putting...
City Politics
County Sentences Santa Clara Convention Center to Death by Bureaucracy
March 18, 2015
Last week Santa Clarans learned what’s important to the Oversight Board of the Santa Clara Redevelopment (RDA) Successor Agency (SA):...