On Tuesday, San Jose City Council voted unanimously to protect at least some of its assets from being seized by Gov. Jerry Brown. The County responded within hours with a letter from its attorney, Miguel Márquez, claiming that the RDA owed it $62.9 million in back fees for services.
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Police have released a video of the shooting that took place at the Mexicali Club last January. They hope that the video will help them capture two suspects, including one as yet unidentified, who have eluded them since then. The incident left three people dead, including two other shooters.
Someone in Sunnyvale doesn’t like dogs. Two open boxes of rat poison were found in the Las Palmas dog park in Sunnyvale. Written on the sides of the boxes were “Kill all dogs” and “All dogs must die.” Police are currently investigating the crime.
In San Jose, many libraries have been forced to cut back hours. With budget cuts, they could be cutting their opening hours down to just three days a week.
Steve Sokol was known as the “World’s Fittest Man.” He died in a car crash on Monday morning, after his car rammed into a power pole on Cottle Road.
Senator John McCain will be visiting Silicon Valley on Mar. 22, but before he comes, he will be needing a lesson in outsourcing.
Protesters from the Westboro Baptist Church failed to show up at Gunderson High’s performance of “The Laramie Project” on Friday, but at least 500 counter-protesters were outside to greet them. Inside, the show went on as planned before a sold-out audience.
By the end of the year, San Jose will be getting a new area code, 669, in addition to 408. The question is whether the split will be geographical, as it was in 1998, or whether there will be an overlay, so that two adjacent homes could have two separate area codes. The California Public Utilities Commission will be holding public hearings this month before deciding which strategy to adopt.
Unemployment in Silicon Valley rose 0.2 percent in January, from 10.6 percent to 10.8 percent, but there were also 40,000 job ads in January, 10,000 more than January 2010. New jobs range across industries, from high tech to retail, and from Apple to Safeway. .
A ceremony was held Thursday to begin demolition of the FMC plant near Mineta San Jose International Airport, paving the way for a new soccer stadium for the San Jose Earthquakes.
