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Gov. Newsom Announces Project HomeKey Funding, Including $56 Million for Bay...
Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Friday an additional $200 million for Project HomeKey, which includes more than $56 million to fund four permanent housing projects across the Bay Area. Project HomeKey is a...
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Op-Ed: How Is Everyone So Woke But Still Disbelieving Women?
The San Jose-Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce rebranded itself the Silicon Valley Organization (SVO) almost four years ago for whatever reasons they claim, but many folks believe it was also to drop...
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SVO Disbands PAC Amid Backlash to ‘Blatantly Racist’ Campaign Ad
It’s official. The campaign arm of Silicon Valley’s chamber of commerce is no more. “As a first step toward restoring its 130-year reputation, the Silicon Valley Organization voted to immediately...
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Election 2020: Meet Alex Lee, California’s First Gen Z Legislator
Alex Lee’s win in Silicon Valley’s 25th Assembly District marks a couple of firsts. Not only is he the first openly bisexual California legislator, but the 25-year-old progressive—who crushed GOP...
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Santa Clara Co. to Probe Covid-Related Workplace Safety
Fast food corporations have come under increased scrutiny under the coronavirus pandemic—and not a moment too soon, according to members of Fight For $15 and a Union, a movement advocating for higher...
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California Renters Face Eviction as Pandemic Protections Expire
Jennifer Dye and her 3-year-old daughter had lived in a one-bedroom backyard cottage in Morgan Hill for 10 months when the coronavirus pandemic hit the Bay Area earlier this year. For the last 15...
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Alex Padilla, Shirley Weber Make California History in New Roles
Months of back-channel lobbying by California's political factions culminated Tuesday with Gov. Gavin. Newsom bequeathing Vice President-elect Kamala Harris’ U.S. Senate seat to Secretary of State Alex...
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Op-Ed: Ash Kalra Should Be California’s Next AG
As public defenders who represent people and serve families most impacted by our criminal legal system, we call upon Gov. Gavin Newsom to appoint Assemblyman Ash Kalra (D-San Jose) as California’s next...
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Silicon Valley Lawmaker, DA Among Contenders for AG
The game of musical chairs prompted by Joe Biden’s electoral victory is drawing to a close as Gov. Gavin Newsom decides who will replace California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, who’s awaiting the...
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For Better or Worse, Prop. 22 Could Become a Model for U.S.
Ali Damabi is a single dad of two teenage girls living in San Jose. He drives for Uber 10 hours a day, five days a week and makes roughly $120 a day, but it’s not enough, he says. “I don’t have a...
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San Jose Assemblyman Leads Renewed Push for Universal Health Care
Ash Kalra of San Jose leads a group of Democratic legislators that Thursday unveiled a package of bills to create a universal health care program funded by new taxes. The post San Jose Assemblyman...
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Legislators Consider Changes in Labor Laws to Benefit Fast-food Workers
Assemblymember Ash Kalra, a San Jose Democrat who chairs the Assembly labor and employment committee, said that where labor organizing campaigns have failed in low-wage industries, the government needs...
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CA Assembly Speaker Blames Kalra for Failure of Single-payer Health Care Bill
The bill for single-payer health care in California didn’t even get a vote in the state Assembly after its author, Rep. Ash Kalra of San Jose, couldn’t round up enough support before a Jan. 31...
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San Jose Legislator Seeks to Protect Silicon Valley Workers from Employer Spying
A workplace tech accountability bill sponsored by Assemblymember Ash Kalra, a San Jose Democrat, would force employers to tell workers they’re being spied on and would ban surveillance outside of work....
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Santa Clara Supervisors All In for Planned Parenthood, Fearing Decision by...
Supervisors voted unanimously to give $3 million to a Planned Parenthood office in San Jose to help expand its medical and reproductive care services n anticipation of an increase in women both in the...
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Primary Turnout Reaches 36%, Santa Clara County and State Races Set for November
The contests for mayor of San Jose, Santa Clara County sheriff, all four of the contested San Jose City Council races and the one contested county supervisor race will have runoff elections in November...
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San Jose Recycling, Trash Collection Resumes after Friday Strike Action
Residents in single-family dwellings whose collection day was Friday should leave their recycling carts out today until the material is collected. Residents who have junk pickup service scheduled for...
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