Ash Kalra is a San Jose City Councilmember for District 2. He was elected to the council in November 2008. Before joining the council, Kalra worked as an attorney for the Santa Clara County Public Defender’s Office representing indigent clients in Drug Court.
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Born in Vietnam, Madison Nguyen came to the US in the early 1980s and is a San Jose City Councilmember for District 7. She was elected to the council in September 2005. Before joining the council, Nguyen was elected to the Franklin-McKinley Board of Education in 2002, becoming the first Vietnamese-American woman elected to that public office in California.
Pierluigi Oliverio writes a weekly column for San Jose Inside and is a city councilmember for San Jose’s District 6. He was elected to the council in June 2007. Before joining the council, Oliverio worked in the semiconductor and software industry for 15 years.
Born in Taiwan, Kansen Chu came to the US in 1976 and is a city councilmember for San Jose’s District 4. He was elected to the council in June 2007 and re-elected without opposition in 2008. Before joining the council, Chu was a member of the Berryessa Union School Board for five years.
The lone San Jose councilmember who identifies himself as a Republican, Pete Constant represents District 1. He was first elected in 2006 and re-elected in 2010. Before joining the council, Constant worked as a police officer for 14 years and ran his a photography studio.
Yahoo is being scrutinized for Taobao, a software program created by one of the company’s partners. The program is used in China and prevents Internet users from evading web censors.
News about Tim Cook’s compensation package are beginning to leak out to the press, and it seems that he will be rather comfortable in his new job.
Take your Labor Day plans out of a backyard and into one of the South Bay’s plentiful public spaces. No cranky neighbors to deal with, no furniture to cover, and only minimal cleanup required.
Police are investigating a fatal stabbing in San Jose’s Seventrees neighborhood Saturday night, according to San Jose police.
Just a decade ago, the word “tweet” was easily defined as “a weak chirping sound, as of a young or small bird.” That may still be what it means when you’re reading a children’s book, but more savvy logophiles know that a tweet is more commonly used today to describe “a very short message posted on the Twitter Web site.”
