Author: Carolyn Schuk
City Politics
Santa Clara’s RDA Money Gambits May Undermine Future Funding for Core Services
March 30, 2011
Santa Clara’s hide-the-redevelopment-money maneuvers could come back to haunt the city in the form of cuts in core services such...
City Politics
Hard Data About RDA’s Benefits Lacking
March 23, 2011
In 2009 State Controller John Chiang launched an audit of 18 California RDAs – Santa Clara wasn’t on that list,...
City Politics
Santa Clara Stadium Authority’s Dash to Stash Redevelopment Cash
March 23, 2011
At an emergency meeting Monday, the Santa Clara Redevelopment Agency (RDA) and Stadium Authority (SA) voted to transfer $4.5 million...
Schools
Santa Clara Teacher Salaries Moderate, Average for California
March 23, 2011
Since the mid-1980s, there has been an increasing howl of complaint that public school teachers “make too much money” –...
City Politics
California Public Payrolls Now Online
March 16, 2011
Thanks to California’s State Controller John Chiang, Californians (at least, computer-literate ones) can, for the first time, easily find out...
Public Safety
Santa Clara Man’s Civil Rights Lawsuit Will Be a Legal Landmark
March 16, 2011
Long after all of us are gone, Yasir Afifi’s fourth amendment lawsuit will be studied by law students and invoked...
BusinessCommunity
CA Brown Act Ensures Public Decision-Making is Public
March 9, 2011
Named for California state assemblyman Ralph M. Brown and enacted in 1953, the Brown Act mandates that public agencies conduct...
Arts & Entertainment
Santa Clara Ballet Founder Josefa Reyes Honored for 4 Decades of Dedication to Young Dancers
March 9, 2011
For almost 40 years the Santa Clara Ballet has been an integral part of the South Bay arts scene, thanks...
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Josephine Rowen, 1926-2011, Championed Government Openness and Accountabiity
March 9, 2011
In the more than seven decades that she lived in Santa Clara, there were few public questions that Santa Clara...
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Biters Get Bitten in Showtime 2011
March 9, 2011
Proving there’s nothing like vaudeville for escaping a grim economy, this weekend’s annual Santa Clara Showtime offered plenty of entertainment...