City Politics
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City Desk: Nov. 11, 2015
November 18, 2015
$30 Million City Surplus Beats Forecast – Operating Reserves Near $50 Million The Oct. 27 Santa Clara City Council meeting...
City Politics
Charter Review
November 11, 2015
The Santa Clara City has approved the appointment of a charter review committee to study changing the City’s at-large by-seat...
City PoliticsSports
Super City Free Super Bowl Community Events Go Forward, Sponsorships Lag
November 11, 2015
At the Oct. 27 meeting, the Santa Clara City Council advanced $2 million for the Super City events in the...
City PoliticsOpinion
Was Santa Clara Opinion “Poll” Aimed at Ousting Gillmor, Kolstad and Matthews?
November 4, 2015
Last week a telephone poll made the rounds in Santa Clara, purportedly about issues of importance to Santa Clara voters....
City Politics
City Desk: Oct. 21, 2015
October 28, 2015
Two New Proposals for Apartments, Retail Development on El Camino Two new development proposals for the El Camino Real –...
City Politics
BAREC Déjà vu
October 21, 2015
With the fate of six acres of open land – one of Silicon Valley’s scarcest resources – being decided, at...
City Politics
City Desk: Oct. 14, 2015
October 21, 2015
Santa Clara’s Next Historic Preservation Dispute: Midcentury Modern Houses Over the last decade Santa Clara has witnessed countless objections to...
City PoliticsCommunity
CORE’s Agrihood Propsal Gets Council Go-Ahead
October 14, 2015
By a 5-1 vote last week, the Santa Clara City Council awarded CORE Companies an exclusive negotiating agreement (ENA) for...
City Politics
City Desk: Sept. 2, 2015
September 9, 2015
Bus Rapid Transit Can’t Seem to Leave the Station VTA’s proposed Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system on El Camino from...
City PoliticsCommunity
Is Levi’s Stadium Meeting Expectations?
September 9, 2015
How do the 2014-15 stadium financials compare to forecasts made before Levi’s Stadium was built? The short answer is, better...