Blocked by a voter’s referendum from freezing the city’s minimum wage at $15/hour for small businesses, the Emeryville City Council opted on Tuesday evening to delay making any decision on the matter until its next meeting on July 23. Despite strong statements from ten public commenters, all but one of…
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San Francisco and six East Bay cities each raised their own minimum wages on Monday, July 1, according to a schedule of annual increases that now sets minimum wages from $13.50/hour (Alameda, Fremont) to $16.30/hour (Emeryville) in those cities. Minimum wages in San Francisco and Berkeley went from $15 to…
On Tuesday the San Jose City Council voted 7-3 (Khamis, Davis, Foley dissenting) to further study placing three types of property tax increases on March 2020 ballots to fund the development of affordable and homeless-supportive housing. The decision resulted from a poll conducted by the city in early March showing…
The City of San Jose deployed over a dozen police officers to its highly-anticipated December 4 City Council meeting, when public land near the Diridon Caltrain Station was sold to Google for $111 million. On the pretext of a “disruptive pubic”, Mayor Sam Liccardo ordered the city council chambers cleared…
After a three-week initial count of nearly 300,000 ballots in San Mateo County, highway expansionists celebrated yesterday as updated results showed a sudden swing from 66.55 to 66.85 percent approval of Measure W, the half-cent transportation sales tax crafted by county transportation officials with heavy corporate influence. While election results…
Yesterday the Santa Clara City Council voted unanimously to continue banning all types of cannabis businesses in the city for another six months after the existing ban expires at the end of this year until June 30, 2019. On November 6 voters in Santa Clara passed Measure M, which levies…
As American voters sent a record-high 124 women to Congress in Tuesday’s elections, voters in Santa Clara County also entrusted female candidates with the most powerful local political posts. If results as of Saturday evening hold, 45 of the 91 members of the 15 city councils in the county will be…
Voters in the San Francisco mid-Peninsula region are clamoring for change as they dumped city council incumbents in Mountain View, Palo Alto, East Palo Alto, and Menlo Park in yesterday’s general elections. In those cities – if results as of Wednesday evening hold – just 3 of 9 incumbents running…
Sunnyvale police say suspected killer car driver Reina Robles may be trying to flee the country, after failing to find her despite locating her vehicle in Santa Clara on Friday. Police identified 55-year-old Robles as the suspected hit-and-run driver who struck and killed 73-year-old bicyclist Javad Hada at eastbound Central…
Conservative members of the San Jose City Council have moved to block a proposal sponsored by Vice-Mayor Magdalena Carrasco and supported by a number of social justice organizations to extend the second term of Mayor Liccardo from four to six years so that all future Mayoral elections will occur on…