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WEB3 days ago · San José Spotlight is an award-winning nonprofit newsroom dedicated to fearless journalism that disrupts the status quo, uplifts marginalized voices, holds power to account and paves the way for change. We’re changing the face of local journalism by building a community-supported newsroom that ...
San Jose: Tech Museum of Innovation unveils new name and vision
WEBMay 23, 2019 · The former San Jose Tech Museum of Innovation has been reborn. It’s new name and vision: The Tech Interactive. “The world was calling us,” Tim Ritchie, President and CEO of The Tech Interactive, told San José Spotlight. After 20 years in operation, the beloved downtown technology museum is being rebranded and reopened to offer expanded ...
'A historic moment': Santa Clara County unveils landmark …
WEBOct 19, 2021 · Located near the intersection of Tully and Senter roads, the 37,000 square foot, three-story building will serve as a “one stop shop” in providing a number of health and human services to more than 140,000 people in the Vietnamese community. San Jose has the largest Vietnamese enclave of any U.S. city outside of Vietnam.
San Jose group fights water company over rate hike
WEBMar 25, 2022 · San Jose Water Company (SJWC) is waiting for the commission to approve a 13.35% rate hike on its customers, which would apply retroactively for the first months of 2022. The utility also wants to change the way customers are charged. SJWC is the largest water retailer in San Jose, serving more than a million customers in the city and ...
Who tops the list of highest-paid San Jose employees?
WEBJun 7, 2021 · In 2020, the number of employees netting more than $400,000 a year increased almost threefold, at 34, according to a San José Spotlight analysis. City data shows that a police captain topped the list last year with roughly $542,000 in compensation and benefits. Overtime wages also jumped by $8.2 …
San Jose’s Vietnamese community struggles with its political voice
WEBJul 9, 2021 · After a tumultuous year in which the nation faced a racial reckoning, lived through a pandemic that disproportionately hurt communities of color and saw Vietnamese flags fly at the U.S. Capitol during a riot on Jan. 6, some residents see this moment as a tipping point for San Jose’s Vietnamese community. “After Trump, (the community’s) way of engaging with politics changed, and they ...
San Jose Politics & Government News - San José Spotlight
WEBSep 13, 2024 · A Tuesday letter from San Jose’s elected representatives in Sacramento questions who’s really in control of the city’s parks. It comes after District 7 Councilmember Bien Doan’s... San José Spotlight is a nonprofit news organization dedicated to local political & government reporting in San Jose, Santa Clara County & the South Bay.
San Jose's Sacred Heart resumes free clothing program
WEBDec 18, 2021 · Get San José Spotlight headlines delivered to your inbox. The Sacred Heart Community Service Clothes Closet quietly reopened Monday after 19 months due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The program provides registered members with free clothing, which they can pick up twice a month at the nonprofit located at 1381 S. First St. in San Jose.
Google unveils portrait of massive downtown San Jose campus
WEBOct 7, 2020 · Get San José Spotlight headlines delivered to your inbox. San Jose revealed scads of new details about Google’s plans to build a sprawling downtown campus with 7.3 million square feet of office space and 4,000 housing units spread out over more than 80 acres with improvements to public amenities, including 10 parks and the trails that will ...
San Jose fire station is 15th busiest in the nation
WEBAug 16, 2022 · A San Jose fire station ranked nationally for responding to thousands of service calls, but that notoriety speaks to a larger problem. Fire Station 26 received more than 5,800 service calls in 2021, ranking 15th in the nation. But the station is just one of 34 firehouses in the San Jose Fire Department, which is contending with a host of issues.
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