Op-Ed

Work Daze: Charismatic You

You know who you are. When you stand up to speak in a meeting, people listen. When you say jump,…

November 16, 2018

Mission City Voices: Veterans’ Day Edition

In the spring of 1969 I started thinking about the draft. Many of my schoolmates from Buchser High School were…

November 9, 2018
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Op-Ed: The Social Media Campaign 2018: Becker’s New Show vs. Gillmor’s Reruns

You could compare candidate for Mayor Anthony Becker’s online campaign to the new TV season. And you could call that…

November 5, 2018

Op-Ed: Will Sunnyvale Have A Lawful Election This November — And Why It Should Switch To District Voting

Only days before Election Day and in Sunnyvale we still don’t know whether we will have a legal City Council…

October 31, 2018

Op-Ed by David D. Tobkin, CPA Regarding Convention Center and CVB Audit

The Santa Clara City Manager issued three letters that are intentionally false and misleading, at taxpayer expense to destroy the…

October 9, 2018

Op-Ed: Estimated $8 million in Lost City Revenue

In 2017, the City of Santa Clara, through our *Santa Clara Convention & Visitors Bureau (SCCVB) team, bid to host…

October 8, 2018

A Clarification of “City Makes About-Face On Election Education And Ethics” Editorial Board

We would like to clarify the intent of our Aug. 30 editorial concerning candidate forums and campaign ethics enforcement. We…

September 4, 2018

City Makes About-Face on Election Education and Ethics

Since Santa Clara lost its Chief Democracy Officer — former City Clerk Rod Diridon Jr. — it seems to have also…

August 30, 2018

Free At Last

To celebrate the recent unblocking of the Santa Clara Weekly by Mayor Lisa Gillmor on Twitter, the United States Senate…

August 17, 2018
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Santa Clara’s Not-So-Hidden Anti-Asian Prejudice

Walt Kelly's cartoon character Pogo famously said, "We have met the enemy and it is us." Racism is like that,…

August 9, 2018