Author: Carolyn Schuk
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):...
Schools
Education Desk Mar. 11, 2015
March 18, 2015
Asian & Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund Awards Scholarships to 12 Mission College Students Fewer than half of low–income students...
City Politics
Clean&ndashUp the Clean Up Campaign, Water Quality Board Tells City
March 11, 2015
Santa Claravs enormously popular residential Clean–Up Campaign (CUC) is headed for an overhaul. The Regional Water Quality Control Board (RWQCB)...
City Politics
RDA Shut-Down Oversight Board Decides… to Make No Decision – Again
March 11, 2015
The Feb. 27 Santa Clara Redevelopment Agency (RDA) Successor Agency Oversight Board meeting could be described as the same as...