Santa Teresa High School is cutting back on its homecoming prom, due to budget cuts. he school, which has about 2,700 students, does not have the money to pay more than twelve teachers to chaperone the event, and school policy prevents parents from chaperoning. As a result, only 500 students will be able to attend their homecoming prom.
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Fans of the Sharks sitting in the luxury suites of the HP Pavilion, will be advertising Citrix, a Fort Lauderdale-based high-tech company. The idea is to make these executives who occupy the suites aware of the services that Citrix offers. It is the first time that the HP Pavilion has signed a sponsorship agreement of this kind with any company.
49er CEO Jed York says that the stadium in Santa Clara may only be finished in 2015. Construction is contingent on a loan from the NFL, and that loan is contingent on the NFL reaching a collective bargaining agreement with the unions. The delay, he adds, would not put public funding for the $937 million project at risk
A local family is suing the SJPD over the excessive use of force, after a woman was tased and a man was shot in the face. The verdict could have ramifications on police policies regarding the use of force on suspects, and whether Latino residents are more likely to be subjected to force in encounters with the SJPD.
Following the revelation that Facebook apps had been collecting personal information about users and their friends for sale to advertisers and internet tracking companies, Democratic representative Edward Markey (D-MA) and Republican Representative Joe Barton (R- TX) sent a letter to Mark Zuckerberg, expressing concern over, “a series of breaches of consumer privacy.”
As Californians prepare to vote on the legalization of marijuana, narcotics agents in Santa Clara County raided the Angel’s Care Collective in Santa Clara, seizing 100 pounds of marijuana and two freezers full of cookies, candies, and drinks prepared with marijuana. Santa Clara Police Chief Steve Lodge warns that other dispensaries in the county could also be targeted by the police in the weeks leading up to the election.
Officer Clay Rojas, 36, of the Santa Clara Police Department has been arrested for providing confidential DMV information to a member of the Hell’s Angels motorcycle gang, William Bettencourt, 38, of Live Oaks. Rojas is expected to be arraigned on Monday. He could face up to three years in prison.
Courtney Howard, a sophomore at SJSU, was a victim of that hazing for a period of three weeks. Now she is suing SJSU, claiming that she was beaten and tortured as she pledged for a sorority. Four members of the sorority pleaded no contest to charges of hazing—a misdemeanor—and were sentenced to 90 days in jail and two years probation, and the school has suspended Sigma Gamma Rho for five years.
Sarah Palin—the 2008 vice-presidential nominee, self-proclaimed Mama Grizzly and unofficial Queen of the Tea Party—brings her political circus into the heart of Silicon Valley this week with a trio of events slated for downtown San Jose on Thursday.
San Jose may have the worst roads in the country, but the cost of fixing those roads—$100 million a year for the next five years—is fare greater than the $20 million that the city has budgeted for road repairs. Considering how desperate the situation is, are new taxes for road repair really off the table?
