A scourge of bedbugs has hit the South Bay, and it isn’t just hotels that are affected. The Avalon at Creekside apartment complex in Mountain View recently found that at least two of its units are infested.
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Faced with a dwindling budget, the San Jose Unified School District has decided to cut funding for adult education by two-thirds. Among the programs to suffer will be vocational training and English as a second language (ESL). Some 99 teachers are also expected to lose their jobs as a result. The $3.6 million saved will be diverted to K-12 education.
San Jose has launched a new program, Clean Slate, to help young people ages 14 to 25 remove their tattoos when they leave a gang. It’s a chance to get a fresh start, without being haunted by the mistakes of their past. The program offers to remove tattoos from all exposed areas on people who leave their gangs, provided that they attend a weekly life skills workshop and perform community service.
Add a national sports columnists to the growing list of those making the case for the Oakland A’s to head south to San Jose.
While announcing its fourth-quarter earnings Thursday, Google made the surprising announcement that Eric Schmidt will no longer be the company’s CEO. Co-founder Larry Page will be taking over the role as of April 4.
“Ouroboros,” the new Renegade Theatre Experiment production, sends a complex narrative in two directions. It runs through Feb. 5 at the Hoover Theater.
There’s no doubt in Masao Suzuki’s mind that a young dark-suited man who questioned him in his driveway last September was an FBI agent. Suzuki believes the visit was part of an FBI investigation seeking to convict him and other anti-war activists of terrorist activities under the PATRIOT Act.
Faced with a $28 billion deficit, Governor Jerry Brown has been eying funds from the state’s 400 Redevelopment Agencies, hoping that he could put the money to “better use.” San Jose is fighting back.
More and more incidents of hand-held lasers being pointed at planes at San Jose Airport are being reported. San Jose is tied with Phoenix for third place in the country, after LAX and O’Hare, with 80 incidents reported last year.
The Santa Clara Valley Water District is concerned about the Calero Reservoir in the Santa Teresa Hills, south of San Jose. The artificial lake, with a surface area of 110 acres, is a major source of water for the region, but over the years, sand, gravel, alluvium, and clay have been accumulating beneath the downstream dam embankment. This claim, authorities said, could seriously damage the dam in the event of a major earthquake.
