Tonight’s City Council meeting will decide if imperiled virtue will win out in 2019 over Doomstown’s dastardly villains in Santa Clara Showtime. City Hall’s new, unannounced policy of demanding that community benefit groups pay thousands in rental rates to use City buildings is threatening well-established events that have benefited community services and City programs. It’s … Read more
A donation shortfall over the winter holidays is prompting the American Red Cross to issue an emergency call for blood and platelet donors to give now to prevent a blood shortage from continuing throughout winter and affecting patient care. The Red Cross collected more than 27,000 fewer blood and platelet donations the weeks of Christmas and New Year’s than needed to sustain … Read more
The second quarter avalanche by the Milpitas Trojans was too much for the Fremont Firebirds of Sunnyvale to overcome. The Trojans would extend the lead to as high as 21 points before a valiant Firebird effort in the fourth quarter, but eventually succumbing to a 62-51 defeat on Friday night. Constant pressure from the Milpitas … Read more
Just last week, every minimum wage worker in Santa Clara received a $2 per hour raise when the City’s Minimum Wage Ordinance, signed in August 2017, went into full effect. Although business owners had ample time to prepare, not all were able to find solutions that didn’t impose a product price hike onto their customers. … Read more
This will be the last Council preview that I post, for obvious reasons. This meeting is bisected, somewhat, and there are no closed or study sessions this evening. We start the evening with a special order of the day, certifying the November 6th election results for Council seats 1, 2, and 3. Per Sunnyvale’s tradition, we do this … Read more
Fremont center Abel Seno and point guard Omri Sokol bumped chests after the buzzer sounded off. They celebrated the Fremont Firebirds of Sunnyvale’s hard fought 41-37 first league against the Santa Clara Bruins on Friday night. Seno was aggressive all game long, snatching rebounds from the towering centers of the Bruins, scoring in the paint, … Read more
Plant away the stress of the of the holidays and add some fragrance to the new year by growing paperwhites. Just plant the bulbs, no cold treatment needed, and watch them grow into their blooming beauty. Purchase firm healthy bulbs from your local garden center or an online bulb nursery. Ziva is the most common paperwhite … Read more
The City of Santa Clara’s property values grew at the second highest rate of all county cities — almost 10 percent according to the Santa Clara County Office of the Assessor’s 2018-2019 report. Only Sunnyvale saw a greater increase in valuations: slightly over 11 percent. Cities receive 13 percent of every property tax dollar. School … Read more
At its Dec. 11 meeting, the Sunnyvale City Council meeting voted 6-1, with Michael Goldman dissenting, to move ahead with a plan from PlaceWorks, Inc. for transitioning to a single-member by-district system for electing its City Council, and made a $333,000 appropriation for the effort. Goldman’s objection was not to the change — he just wanted … Read more
The Caltrain Holiday Train made its annual ride down the peninsula on Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 1 and 2. This year marked the 18th year for the highly anticipated Holiday Train, which is presented by the Silicon Valley Community Foundation. The event has been a Bay Area favorite and its popularity grows each year. When … Read more