Ongoing Debate Over Digital Billboards at San Jose Airport
For 35 years, San Jose has banned any new billboards from going up. But in 2018, the city council voted to allow 22 new ones on public land. It’s been
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School Officials Call on Santa Clara County for Help Carrying Out COVID Requirements
Some school district superintendents in the South Bay said they feel like they are being asked to act like a public health officer on top of educating kids. The frustrated
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1 in 11 California homeowners struggle to pay mortgage
Nine months after launching a pandemic aid program to help cash-strapped renters avoid eviction, California began a new program to help homeowners save their properties from foreclosure or a forced
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Santa Clara sued by developer after killing affordable housing project
A San Francisco developer filed a lawsuit against Santa Clara today, accusing the city of violating state housing law and breaching their contract by killing the company’s affordable and workforce housing project
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Families Who Receive COVID-19 Vaccine Get Free Museum Visit
Children’s Discovery Museum is offering families a free pass for shots received during one of the Santa Clara County Public Health Department’s COVID-19 vaccination clinics at the museum. Every family
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Deadline Arrives for High-Risk Workers in Santa Clara County to Have COVID-19 Booster
The deadline has arrived for Santa Clara County workers in high-risk settings to have up-to-date COVID-19 vaccinations, meaning booster shots. In late December, as the omicron variant was spreading fast,
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Historic Theater in San Jose bought by local group
A local group has bought the historic Burbank Theater in San Jose, ending a saga that included a loan from one of Wall Street’s most notorious financial firms, a lawsuit
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California Tesla driver charged with manslaughter a 1st in a fatal crash involving Autopilot
California prosecutors have filed two counts of vehicular manslaughter against the driver of a Tesla on Autopilot who ran a red light, slammed into another car and killed two people
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Elizabeth Holmes signals bid to get guilty verdicts tossed, possibly over jury issues
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has filed a motion indicating her legal team is looking for problems in the jury that convicted her in an attempt to get her guilty verdicts
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Federal authorities have a tool to battle fentanyl dealers that California lacks
The Craigslist ad offered “Roxy board short,” street slang for oxycodone pills. Federal prosecutors say it was posted by Tobin Oliver Wood of Costa Mesa, who allegedly gave the drugs
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