Author: Carolyn Schuk
City Politics
County Supervisors Respond to Cities’ RDA Shutdown Complaints: Tough Luck
February 27, 2013
About a month ago, Santa Clara County cities registered their dissatisfaction with the county’s conduct on RDA oversight boards in...
Life Announcements
Foster Lopes, A Teacher and a Doer (Dec.17, 1929 – Feb.7, 2013)
February 27, 2013
Second careers aren’t uncommon today. But longtime Santa Claran Foster Lopes surely set a record for post-retirement careers. After teaching...
City Politics
Santa Clara Grassroots Activists Keep Working to Advance Progressive Agenda
February 20, 2013
After Obama won the election last November, there was a lot of talk in polito-sphere about the campaign’s “ground game.”...
Business
Around Town: Coffee, Pastry and Mac Repair
February 13, 2013
As they say, what’s old is new. And this year’s new old thing among the coffee cognoscenti is “pour over”...
City Politics
County RDA Clawbacks Spark Criticism from Bill Wilson Center
February 13, 2013
It’s not only local government and development insiders who are dismayed by the county money grab unleashed by the clawback...
Arts & Entertainment
Thanks For the Memories…
February 13, 2013
On January 28 Retro Dome fans bid a tearful farewell to the quirky theater, where for the last four years...
Community
A Volunteer For All Seasons: Robert Schwalbe (1952 – 2013)
February 6, 2013
One word that wasn’t in Robert Schwalbe’s vocabulary was “half-hearted.” Whether it was making holidays not-to-be-forgotten experiences for his family...
Community
Santa Clara’s Neonode Takes the “Touch” Out of Touchscreen
January 30, 2013
At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas a few weeks ago, Santa Clara company Neonode (neonode.com) made quite...
Schools
School Report Cards Show SCUSD Slightly Ahead of State Averages
January 23, 2013
Last week the Santa Clara Unified School Board accepted “school annual report cards” (SARC) – a state-required exhaustive annual report...
Schools
Education Desk:
January 16, 2013
SCUSD Budget Taking a Turn for the Better A look at Santa Clara Unified School District’s (SCUSD) $130 million budget...