San Jose took another step forward toward annexing Cambrian 36 on Tuesday. City Council voted unanimously to move ahead with the planned annexation, it agreed to postpone the matter for six months so that it can review an alternative offer made by Campbell to the city. The offer would likely include the exchange of lands between San Jose and Campbell, though Vice Mayor Judy Chirco says that any deal would be “revenue neutral” to San Jose.
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Mark Zuckerberg was one of seventeen superrich individuals to sign on to the Giving Pledge, a campaign launched by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to get the very wealthy to pledge to give at least half of their wealth to charity. Also representing Facebook by signing the Pledge was Dustin Moskovitz, his Harvard roommate and Facebook cofounder.
A Continental Airlines flight from Mineta to Houston was diverted to Albuquerque because of a disruptive passenger, who threatened to commit suicide. Aviation police removed the passenger from the plane, and the FBI conducted interviews of the passengers to get a clearer picture of what happened in the air.
The holidays are still the time when only an old-fashioned solid chunk of the bookmaker’s art will suffice. Now is the season to seek out beautiful coffee-table extravagances and weighty tomes worth both displaying and reading.
The percentage of high school dropouts is inching up in Santa Clara County, and in 2009 stood at one out of every six students. The figures are making it hard to compete with up and coming educational powerhouses, like Shanghai, China.
A new company is hoping to turn cloverleafs along the freeway into solar energy farms. Republic Cloverleaf Solar says that it can power 3,000 homes with energy produced by solar panels installed on the unused land along the freeway. It is in negotiations with CalTrans and PG&E, and hopes to begin construction next year.
Stanford alums Thomas Steyer and Kat Taylor made a $7 million gift to the school to establish the Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance for the study and development of new technologies for producing clean energy.
If this were France, this article would never have been written. There, the 110-year-old Michelin guide is a venerated source of restaurant recommendations. The annual guide’s release is a reason for hot debate and raucous celebration. But we are not in France.
San Jose boasts a half-dozen Ethiopian restaurants, and humble Mudai is one of my favorites. Mudai Ethiopian Restaurant doesn’t feel so much like a restaurant as it does an Ethiopian cultural center or an extended living room.
The weekend of Jan. 15–16 will be a big one for fans of Santa Cruz Mountains wine, so it’s not too early to mark it on the calendar. Jan. 15 is “passport day,” in which dozens of local wineries will open their doors to visitors. Jan. 16 is a wine and crab competition at several, yet-to-be named restaurants.
