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By the Mercury News Come this fall, we could be saying goodbye to a kinda/sorta downtown landmark: the old Martin Luther King Jr. Library, which sits squarely in the path of San Jose's much-hoped-for convention center expansion. …
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Palo Alto council members apologized for the city"s Salem-like investigation into alleged fraud at the Children"s Theatre, which dragged a number of fine folks through the mud. Santa Clara County employees have racked up more than $100K in parking …
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Meanwhile, the Bronx District Attorney's Office is examining claims he didn't pay an architect who did work on his home at the same time the architect was submitting a housing project for city approval. Bonilla said Campos, for her part, wasn't aware …
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8 on the agenda for last week's council meeting: "Adopt resolution requesting Major League Baseball act on the issue of territorial rights." Major League Baseball territorial rights? Sure, we can see why that's such an important issue for Monte Sereno …
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By the Mercury News IA wondered about one more piece of potential fallout from Chris Constantin's would-be appointment as San Jose's independent police auditor: next year's District 9 council race. Constantin, well-regarded for his work in the city …
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Acting County Executive Gary Graves — who described the proposal as part of unavoidable reductions countywide — proposes to merge the human relations office with the Office of Affordable Housing, creating an oddly named Office of Housing and Human …
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As another recent president might have put it, they're just trying to put food on their families. An Alameda County woman named Margarita Lacabe is sick and tired of the way the San Leandro Unified School District goes around promoting God and Jesus …
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Ian Tomlinson, 47, who later died, was surrounded by riot police and police medics after he collapsed on April 1 in London, near a protest against the G-20 summit.
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Luckily, most of the stations (except Univision, which missed the event) quickly contacted mayoral spokeswoman Michelle McGurk and learned the event — featuring Mayor Chuck Reed, most council members and several city department heads — was still …