Author: Carolyn Schuk
City Politics
City Desk: March 25, 2015
April 1, 2015
Irvine Mission Town Center Proposal Adds Momentum for Downtown Revival As they say, if you build it they will come....
City Politics
Kolstad Raffle Tickets: No Evidence for More Than Mistake
April 1, 2015
Sometimes a mistake is just that. And that’s what Council Member Pat Kolstad’s Mission City Community Fund (MCCF) raffle ticket...
City Politics
City Desk: March18, 2015
March 25, 2015
Most Vulnerable Citizens Paying for RDA Dissolution When the State Legislature shut down California’s redevelopment program, they also shut down...
Schools
Education Desk Mar. 18, 2015
March 25, 2015
Middle College GPA Screw–Up Has Lasting Consequences for Students While Santa Clara Unified continues to pursue its fixation on putting...
Schools
Education Desk Mar. 11, 2015
March 18, 2015
Asian & Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund Awards Scholarships to 12 Mission College Students Fewer than half of low–income students...
City Politics
County Sentences Santa Clara Convention Center to Death by Bureaucracy
March 18, 2015
Last week Santa Clarans learned what’s important to the Oversight Board of the Santa Clara Redevelopment (RDA) Successor Agency (SA):...
City Politics
Clean&ndashUp the Clean Up Campaign, Water Quality Board Tells City
March 11, 2015
Santa Claravs enormously popular residential Clean–Up Campaign (CUC) is headed for an overhaul. The Regional Water Quality Control Board (RWQCB)...
City Politics
RDA Shut-Down Oversight Board Decides… to Make No Decision – Again
March 11, 2015
The Feb. 27 Santa Clara Redevelopment Agency (RDA) Successor Agency Oversight Board meeting could be described as the same as...
City Politics
Senior Housing Still Slated for BAREC's Remaining 6 Acres, But City Open to New Designs
March 11, 2015
The six remaining acres of open land at 90 N. Winchester – known familiarly as BAREC – are still the...
Community
Soroptimist’s Annual Old Bag Luncheon Best Ever
March 11, 2015
In 2011, Soroptimist International Santa Clara Silicon Valley put on their first–ever Old Bag Luncheon and Auction. It was such...