Santa Clara City Council members' service isn't limited to their participation in City Council meetings. They also serve on the…
During elections we love to toss around hot air-filled slogans like "affordable housing," "green building," and "transit-oriented development." But few…
More than a few of us have said - or thought - that surely we could do better than California's…
Come New Year's Day 2012, the 49ers stadium project will start moving ahead at a notably faster pace. So, despite…
While California's Brown Act establishes that public business must be conducted, well, in public, government agencies can hold private meetings…
The Santa Clara Charter Review Committee won't complete its recommendation about the city's election system on Oct. 11, 2011 as…
In what alternative universe did the Santa Clara city government think an open lawsuit against a prospective City Attorney would…
Don't say the 2002 California Voting Rights Act (CVRA) hasn't had results. It's just that results aren't necessarily those civil…
Nearly ten years after the California Voting Rights Act (CVRA) was passed into law, CVRA lawsuits and threats of lawsuits…
In the August 31 piece, "Tale of Three City Budgets: Where the Income Comes From." we incorrectly said that city…