City Politics
City Politics
Santa Clara City Observer: March 15, 2016
March 23, 2016
Stadium Boosts General Fund $2.6 Million, But Arguments About Underlying Numbers Continue For the first nine months of the Santa...
City Politics
Centerplate Faces Wage Theft Class Action Suit
March 16, 2016
Centerplate, Levi’s Stadium food service provider, is being sued for wage theft by Investigative Fund journalist, Gabriel Thompson, who did...
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Kathy Watanabe Becomes First Santa Clara City Council Member from Northside
March 16, 2016
Last night Rivermark resident Kathleen Watanabe was appointed to Santa Clara City Mayor Lisa Gillmor’s vacant seat #6, becoming the...
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City Manager Calls it a Day
March 9, 2016
Santa Clara City Manager Julio Fuentes resigned from his position as Santa Clara’s chief executive on Thursday, and says that...
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New Mayor Lisa Gillmor Promises Council Collaboration, Empowerment
March 2, 2016
After all the local press’s dire predictions of gridlock on the Santa Clara City Council, “fractured” relationships, and Santa Clara’s...
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We’ll probably never know exactly how…
March 2, 2016
…the local media-political complex is first with all the Santa Clara news that’s not fit to print. But they’re old...
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City Observer: Feb. 17, 2016
February 24, 2016
Soccer Gets 70% of Budget for City Athletic Facilities Of the $9.8 million Santa Clara has budgeted for athletic facility...
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Commission Recommends general plan change to make way for Controversial Retail-Residential Development
February 24, 2016
Proponents of the Mission Town Square development could get their way following the Santa Clara Planning Commission’s vote to alter...
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Development Fees: Another Opportunity for Venting by City Critics
February 24, 2016
Virtually all the correspondence Santa Clara has received about development impact fees endorsed raising them – in some cases exhorting...
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After Super Bowl Success, Mayor Matthews Announces His Retirement
February 17, 2016
Following the adage that it’s best to leave on high note, Santa Clara Mayor Jamie Matthews left office on the...




