The Santa Clara Players production of the comedy Exit the Body, playing now through Nov. 17, is an evening of old time farce and fun dressed up like an Agatha Christie mystery — a genre the play spoofs. The successful mystery writer Crane Hammond has rented a vacation house set in a remote corner of … Read more
During the Oct. 24 dress rehearsal of Roberta Jones Junior Theatre’s “Pinocchio,” about 25 young cast members illustrated the story of a father’s infinite love for his child. Directed by Katie Ratermann, this musical introduced an elderly and unmarried toy maker named Geppetto who longs for his own child. Geppetto creates a wooden puppet named … Read more
Politics is often filled with daggers, darts and dynamite. Politicians often keep these volatile charges contained, unless of course, you hire a loose cannon like Robert Haugh. Haugh is the blog mouth insert for Mayor Lisa Gillmor. His instructions are to take any topic or person and convert the mundane into the sensational, headline-grabbing, distasteful … Read more
Campaign donations have accelerated since the September campaign finance reports, with plenty of treats from real estate and union interests for mayoral candidate Lisa Gillmor and City Council District 2 candidate Nancy Biagini. Direct donations so far have reached about $117,000 cumulatively, while spending by PACs currently stands at $60,000 Gillmor, Biagini and candidates for … Read more
PRESS RELEASE FROM: The Santa Clara Chamber PAC To: The Santa Clara Community October 31, 2018 Our once helpful City Clerk staff has been replaced by political nit pickers. The Santa Clara Chamber PAC has been unfairly attacked by our own City. In an easy to fix paperwork issue, the City has made a … Read more
Operation Care and Comfort came to Levi’s Stadium on Monday, Oct. 29. Together with the front office staff and player alumni from both the San Francisco 49ers and Oakland Raiders, they assembled care packages for troops overseas. With the Raiders and 49ers playing their last game before the Raiders move to Las Vegas, this was … Read more
This September, the City of Cupertino adopted its Vallco Town Center Specific Plan to guide development in a northern part of the city that abuts Santa Clara between Stevens Creek Boulevard and Interstate 280 in the vicinity of Vallco Parkway. The plan outlines the buildout of 2,923 housing units, 1.75 million square feet of office … Read more
The Santa Clara Police Officer (POA) Association PAC has revved up the developer gray money machine it pioneered in Santa Clara in 2016 with $55,000 from the same four local developers that donated in 2016 and a gray money developer PAC whose single largest donor is the Irvine Company. All of the developers have current … Read more
The driver of a private commuter bus that hit and killed a bicyclist near the Santa Clara Convention Center could soon face charges. Investigators are gathering evidence and interviewing witnesses before they hand the case over to the District Attorney’s office. Officers say that around 5:21 p.m. on Oct. 25, the bus was turning right … Read more
Only days before Election Day and in Sunnyvale we still don’t know whether we will have a legal City Council election. The City still has not acknowledged it received a notice advising that Sunnyvale’s system for electing its Council is illegal under the California Voting Rights Act (“CVRA”). That notice, sent on October 2 by … Read more