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Santa Clara Soccer League’s Second Injunction Request Denied
January 13, 2016
Tuesday afternoon, Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Joseph H. Huber denied, for the second time in less than a...
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Santa Clara City Observer: Dec. 23, 2015
January 6, 2016
RDA Dissolution Settlement: Santa Clara Keeps Convention Center, $320+ Million of RDA Properties to be Sold The end of the...
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Santa Clara City Observer: Dec. 16, 2015
December 23, 2015
Google Fiber Coming to Santa Clara After two years of waiting, the suspense is over. Google has given Santa Clara...
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Mini-Dorms: University Increasing Supervision, But Long-Standing Problems Evade Easy Solutions – PART TWO
December 16, 2015
Santa Clara Councilmember Teresa O’Neill has been struggling with the issue of mini-dorms since she was on the planning commission....
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City Observer: Dec. 2, 2015
December 9, 2015
California Voting Rights Act: $14 Million Legal Bill for Taxpayers The California Voting Rights Act (CVRA) is a bogeyman that...
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City Desk: Nov. 25, 2015
December 2, 2015
Stadium Safety No Cause For Panic Nov. 10 was the third time in the last few months that Santa Clara...
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Consolidated Agenda Simplifies Santa Clara City Council Meetings
December 2, 2015
October 13, 2015 was an important day in Santa Clara history. That’s the first time the City Council, Stadium Authority,...
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Mini-Dorms: Growing Student Population, Stratospheric Rents Continue Collision With Historic Houses, Single-Family Zoning
December 2, 2015
Santa Clara is a nice place to live. According to areavibes.com, a website devoted to ranking living standards, Santa Clara...
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City Desk: Nov. 18, 2015
November 25, 2015
Charter Review Urgency Cools Down On Oct. 27 changing the way Santa Clara elects officials was urgently needed and the...
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City Back From Financial Brink
November 18, 2015
Santa Clara’s operating reserve has grown $45.5 million since 2010, a year when Santa Clara faced a $13.5 million budget...