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City Politics

Diversity Task Force Begins Work, Plans to Survey Residents on Renaming Columbus Day

Author Carolyn SchukPosted on March 5, 2021March 3, 2021
Santa Clara’s Task Force on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion met Thursday to review its work plan. Future committee meetings are scheduled for the second Monday of the month. Listening sessions,...
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Business

Christian Malesic Takes Over Silicon Valley Central Chamber of Commerce

Author Erika TownePosted on March 4, 2021March 3, 2021
After a nationwide search, the Silicon Valley Central Chamber of Commerce (SVCCC) has hired Christian D. Malesic as its new President and...
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Sports

Bruins Golf Gets Green Light to Birdie

Author Andrew BenschPosted on March 4, 2021March 3, 2021
Alongside swimming, diving, cross country and tennis, high school golf finds itself among the first sports in California to return during the...
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Public Safety

Santa Clara Police Report: February 21 – 27

Author Santa Clara Police DepartmentPosted on March 3, 2021
The Police Blotter highlights a partial list of incidents in the city and is distributed on a weekly basis. The Blotter provides...
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City Politics

Still No Decision On Fate Of Police And Fire Departments Cutbacks

Author David AlexanderPosted on March 3, 2021
The Santa Clara City Council again delayed deciding whether to cut police and fire services, greatly impact essential services or all but...
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Milestones

Milestones: Why Is He Still Here? – Opinion

Author Miles H BarberPosted on March 2, 2021
It has been two months since Santa Clara City Attorney Brian Doyle withheld a settlement offer from the new City Council. That...
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Business

Restaurants, Movie Theaters, Gyms Can Reopen Indoors

Author Alissa SorotenPosted on March 2, 2021
After months under the strictest restrictions, Santa Clara County is finally moving into a less restrictive tier, now allowing for restaurants, movie...
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Schools

Santa Clara Unified Discusses How to Change Trustee Election System

Author Alissa SorotenPosted on February 26, 2021
The Santa Clara Unified School District Board of Trustees decided in January to start the process to completely update its six-decade-old election...
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City Politics

Plans for El Camino Real Start to Take Shape

Author Erika TownePosted on February 25, 2021
The future of the Santa Clara stretch of El Camino Real could be established in the next few months. On Feb. 24,...
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Community

Local High School Junior Isabella He Founds SN Inclusion for Neurodiverse Individuals

Author Diane AndrewsPosted on February 25, 2021February 24, 2021
“I met a software engineer who I had no idea was neurodiverse,” said Isabella He, a junior at Mission San Jose High...

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Last Tuesday night, it was incredibly ironic and hypocritical to listen to our city manager talk about budget cuts. Have voters and our city council forgot that Deanna Santana has the highest base salary and the second highest total compensation package for a city manager/city administrator in California – a whopping 709,446. Instead of cutting our essential fire and police services for our residents, how about starting with cutting her own salary. Furthermore, as the Weekly previously reported five of Santa Clara’s 10 most-highly paid (base salary) City employees — after Santana — are her former colleagues! Let’s start with budget cuts with these overpaid city employees, not services residents depend on. This council seems to have it backwards, awarding high salaries to our administrators that are supposed to be working for us while eliminating budget everywhere else. Residents should ask themselves these questions – why is our city manager paid an

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