The 150-plus-acre park along Senter Road opposite San Jose Municipal Stadium provides a green respite for strollers and picnickers.
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A suspect is still at large after stabbing a man to death in San Jose late Wednesday night.
The California Department of Transportation is scheduled to close the eastbound Tully Road on-ramp to southbound U.S. Highway 101 in San Jose starting today, Caltrans officials said.
High-speed rail may have just received another $900 million in federal funding, but Palo Alto isn’t interested. At last night’s city council meeting, councilmembers voted unanimously to tell the High Speed Rail Authority that they do not want a station in their city. The problem, they say, comes down to traffic, costs, and parking.
Palo Alto’s Public Works Director Glenn Roberts retired, it was announced yesterday, but neither he nor the city are explaining what lay behind the sudden decision, except that it was a “personnel matter.” City Council approved the controversial employee’s severance package behind closed doors, due to “significant exposure to litigation.”
Both Yahoo and AOL have been struggling to remain relevant in a world dominated by Google, Facebook, and Twitter, but it seems that they can’t do it alone. Reports are circulating that AOL and a consortium of investors including Silver Lake and Blackstone are now preparing to make a takeover bid for Yahoo.
Ikea announced that eight of its stores in California will be adding solar panels to their roofs to generate electricity. Among the stores is the East Palo Alto location, which serves the South Bay area.
A fire at the Eggo waffle plant on Sunday spread to a nearby building, knocking out two local radio stations: KSJX, which serves the Vietnamese community, and KZSF, which serves the Hispanic community. The SJFD claims that part of the problem was the city’s budget cuts, which led to the layoff of 49 firefighters and the elimination of a water engine from the station right across the freeway.
Bounded by Taylor Street to the north and Empire to the south, First Street to the west and 10th to the east, San Jose’s Japantown is a fairly compact, walkable neighborhood. The area’s little “downtown” runs along Jackson Street and features professional services and retail shops, including a dozen-plus restaurants—from Mexican and Korean to Chinese and Hawaiian and, of course, Japanese—and a recently opened dog boutique.
Driscoll, who was one of four players from San Jose State to earn a spot in this year’s World Championships, says he owes his success entirely to the judo legend Uchida. “It came from the instruction of one of the best coaches in the nation,” the 29-year-old grad student says. Driscoll says he was intimidated weighing in with his heavyweight division competitors at the competition in Tokyo earlier this month. “This was the first time that I was by far the smallest guy in the room,” the 6-foot-3-inch, 255-pound judoka says.
