San Jose Mercury News, USA
Union leaders stepped up but felt smacked down in the talks this spring, even though Mayor Chuck Reed and City Manager Deb Figone both have praised their courage. Beginning the conversation about the next budget early could produce an exchange of ideas …
San Jose Mercury News, USA
They're having conferences with social workers and advocates to figure out how to meet their needs, including housing, emotional support and help with job and college applications. In Santa Clara County, there is not enough housing for all the kids, …
San Jose Mercury News, USA
On the police union Web site, www.sjpoa.com, and on a new site, www.protectsanjose.com, leaders of the San Jose Police Officers Association mocked and exaggerated the testimony of Raj Jayadev at a council hearing. Jayadev is the founder of Silicon …
San Jose Mercury News
San Jose Mercury News, USA
Having the 49ers play in Santa Clara would bring tremendous civic pride to all of Silicon Valley along with tangible economic benefits, since many football fans travel long distances and stay in hotels. But it will be Santa Clara's investment, …
San Jose Mercury News, USA
A few weeks ago, we suggested in this space that the Monte Sereno City Council's proposal to pay its members a monthly salary of $300 was a bad idea. Two weeks later, the council passed the proposal in a 3-2 vote — Mayor Curtis Wright and council …
San Jose Mercury News
San Jose Mercury News
Herald Times Reporter
Parades will be held today in communities throughout the country to pay tribute to … what? The correct answer? We honor those who died defending our country.
Green Bay Press Gazette
WBIR-TV
- -
San Jose Mercury News, USA
Along Park Avenue between the Center for the Performing Arts and the Guadalupe River, you'll find the city's understated but inspiring veterans memorial. It's not so much an object to be admired as a place to be experienced. …
San Jose Mercury News, USA
The arts center in the hills above Saratoga has gone through some rough years, with a narrowed mission that lost sight of its greatest asset: the stunning 175-acre place itself. It was concerts, large and small, that over the decades introduced …
San Jose Mercury News
San Jose Mercury News, USA
Mayor Chuck Reed and the City Council helped to create this rift, and they need to repair it. The council set up the task force after articles in the Mercury News documented a pattern of San Jose police arresting far more people, …
Washington Times
By | Thursday, May 7, 2009 So the chairman of Nepal's Maoist radicals brags that he and his fellow-travellers tricked United Nations officials and admits that the 2006 peace deal was a sham - and gets caught on videotape doing it.
RTT News
Voice of America
- - -