Author: Carolyn Schuk
City Politics
District Attorney Closes Caserta Investigation
August 16, 2018
Former Santa Clara City Council Member and front-runner for Ken Yeager’s County Supervisor seat Dominic Caserta will not face criminal...
City Politics
Stadium Authority Rent Win: $10 Million Over 40 Years
August 15, 2018
After two years of closed-door hearings and discussion, a private arbitrator awarded the Santa Clara Stadium Authority a 1.07 percent...
City Politics
Measure A Campaign Spending Totals $131,000 — 86% By Yes on A
August 9, 2018
A total of $131,000 was spent on June’s Measure A campaign — $105,000 of it by the Yes on A...
Op-Ed
Santa Clara’s Not-So-Hidden Anti-Asian Prejudice
August 9, 2018
Walt Kelly’s cartoon character Pogo famously said, “We have met the enemy and it is us.” Racism is like that,...
City Politics
Santa Clara’s New Council Districts All in a Day’s Work for Registrar of Voters
August 8, 2018
This November, the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters will run 13 congressional elections, 12 state elections, 17 municipal elections,...
City Politics
Candidates File to Run in Santa Clara’s First By-District Elections
August 6, 2018
It’s getting down to the wire for candidates to file run in November’s election. The deadline is Friday, Aug. 10,...
City Politics
Santa Clara’s Real Challenge Isn’t Drawing Districts — It’s Discrimination
August 2, 2018
Since Superior Court Judge Thomas Kuhnle found Santa Clara had violated the California Voting Rights Act (CVRA), the public conversation...
City Politics
Related Lobbyist Jude Barry’s Business is Politics — And He’s Selling in Santa Clara
August 1, 2018
For Related Companies’ lobbyist Jude Barry politics is business — from selling campaign consulting and lobbying to selling software. But...
City Politics
Six Districts, Two to Elect New Council Members in November
July 25, 2018
Yesterday an amended order was published in Santa Clara’s California Voting Rights Act (CVRA) lawsuit directing the sequencing of elections...
City Politics
Santa Clara District Elections Sequencing for California Voting Rights Act Remedy: Districts 2 & 3 in 2018
July 24, 2018
Today, the judge in Santa Clara’s California Voting Rights Act (CVRA) lawsuit, Thomas Kuhnle, published an amendment to his July...