Santa Clara Mayor Lisa Gillmor joined government officials across the nation last month to mark Education & Sharing Day. President Jimmy Carter first established the day in 1978 in...
Author: Carolyn Schuk
Last week, the Santa Clara Woman’s Club rolled out its own operation runway at its annual fashion show fundraiser. The afternoon featured...
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Some might think that the apparent formation of a “Yes on A” ballot measure campaign committee and resources being donated to that...
Arts & Entertainment
New Production of Beaches Author Iris Rainer Dart’s The People in the Picture—Where Personal and Historical Intersect
A few weeks ago a friend asked about a favorite picture of mine. It’s of my great-great-grandmother Katharina Frega, a widow who...
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) isn’t constraining housing development in California, as some claim. Instead a new study finds that city...
City Politics
Ad Hoc Measure J Audit Committee Quietly Expands Its Mission As Most Recommended Process and Reporting Changes Are Complete Or In Process
On March 19 the Measure J audit committee—Mayor Lisa Gillmor and Council Members Patrick Kolstad and Teresa O’Neill—reviewed the status of roughly...
Santa Clara’s increasing costs aren’t just taking a bigger bite out of the City’s budget. Money that’s spent for growing pension costs...
City Politics
CalPERS Change Will Add Over $150 Million to Santa Clara Pension Costs Short Term Despite Long Term Savings
California’s pension “crisis” has been brewing for a while. But recently things got worse. That’s because the California public pension system,...
Whether or not to adopt a proportional election method is an important question for Santa Clara voters. But the outcome of that...
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City Politics
Santa Clara Stadium Authority Governing and Budget Principles Debut, Budget Shows Better-Than-Anticipated Debt Pay-Down
At Tuesday night’s Santa Clara Stadium Authority meeting the City Council/Stadium Authority reviewed Authority governing and budget principles, the 2018-19 budget and...