The latest attack on Santa Clara, its budget and residents, is not a surprise. In the real world, employees who have failed at the job and duties they were hired to perform move on. Former city manager Deanna Santana will likely be remembered as the worst city manager in city history — right up … Read more
The following is a calendar of events happening this weekend near Santa Clara and Sunnyvale. Want to share an event to be featured? Please email the details to info@svvoice.com for consideration. Friday, Aug. 22 Concerts on the Plaza — 6 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. at Civic Center Plaza (500 Castro St, Mountain View) Free event … Read more
Deanna Santana, Santa Clara’s city manager from 2017-2022, has filed a breach of contract lawsuit claiming that the city withheld contracted compensation and benefits when she was dismissed in February 2022. The former top Santa Clara official is also claiming that, at the direction of the San Francisco 49ers, the city discriminated against her based … Read more
The Santa Clara Bruins football program has long been an afterthought in the local community. Santa Clara hasn’t had a winning football season since 2018 and even then, its 5-1 record was still overshadowed by cross-town rival Wilcox. Those Chargers went 14-1 and won a pair of CIF State Championship contests. Perhaps, though, the 2025 … Read more
To accommodate Silicon Valley Power’s system expansion plan, the Santa Clara City Council approved seizing four more parcels as part of an ongoing eminent domain process. At its regular meeting on Aug. 19, the council voted unanimously to secure the latest of a slew of properties along a proposed transmission line. The 115 kV line … Read more
During a recent discussion about changes to the Related Santa Clara development, many bemoaned the project’s delay. Related was, according to the original agreements, already supposed to have the first phase of the project completed. Extenuating circumstances — including “adverse economic conditions,” a lawsuit, regulatory red tape, the collapse of a bank planned as an anchor … Read more
The Santa Clara Unified School District (SCUSD) kicked off another school year on Aug. 13, with thousands of students flooding into the district’s 31 schools. This school year marks the start of Dr. Damon J. Wright’s tenure as SCUSD’s new superintendent. Hundreds of cars poured onto Zanker Road in North San Jose on Wednesday morning, where Agnew … Read more
The fight over redistricting is about to hit overdrive in California. As the Legislature returns to Sacramento today for the final month of session, Democrats are racing to finish a plan that could tilt the state’s congressional map in their favor — and thrust California into another confrontation with President Donald Trump. Republicans, who stand … Read more
As high schools prep for another year of athletics, there’s another team getting ready for its own season. Under the hot rays of the Saturday sun at Pioneer High School on Aug. 9, a new crop of referees tucked their whistles between their teeth and tested out their training for the football season. For the … Read more
If you wanted to sum up Santa Clara artist Saswatee Chatterjee’s work, it would be with a famous line from the English poet William Blake (1757-1827): “To see the world in a grain of sand.” Chatterjee wants people to stop and take in the everyday beauty that’s all around us in the smallest things. “I … Read more