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Work Daze: Charismatic You
November 16, 2018
You know who you are. When you stand up to speak in a meeting, people listen. When you say jump,...
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Mission City Voices: Veterans’ Day Edition
November 9, 2018
In the spring of 1969 I started thinking about the draft. Many of my schoolmates from Buchser High School were...
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Op-Ed: The Social Media Campaign 2018: Becker’s New Show vs. Gillmor’s Reruns
November 5, 2018
You could compare candidate for Mayor Anthony Becker’s online campaign to the new TV season. And you could call that...
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Op-Ed: Will Sunnyvale Have A Lawful Election This November — And Why It Should Switch To District Voting
October 31, 2018
Only days before Election Day and in Sunnyvale we still don’t know whether we will have a legal City Council...
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Op-Ed by David D. Tobkin, CPA Regarding Convention Center and CVB Audit
October 9, 2018
The Santa Clara City Manager issued three letters that are intentionally false and misleading, at taxpayer expense to destroy the...
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Op-Ed: Estimated $8 million in Lost City Revenue
October 8, 2018
In 2017, the City of Santa Clara, through our *Santa Clara Convention & Visitors Bureau (SCCVB) team, bid to host...
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A Clarification of “City Makes About-Face On Election Education And Ethics” Editorial Board
September 4, 2018
We would like to clarify the intent of our Aug. 30 editorial concerning candidate forums and campaign ethics enforcement. We...
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City Makes About-Face on Election Education and Ethics
August 30, 2018
Since Santa Clara lost its Chief Democracy Officer — former City Clerk Rod Diridon Jr. — it seems to have also...
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Free At Last
August 17, 2018
To celebrate the recent unblocking of the Santa Clara Weekly by Mayor Lisa Gillmor on Twitter, the United States Senate...
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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,...