Senator Barbara Boxer made a campaign stop in San Jose on Tuesday and spoke at a townhall meeting at Cisco. While she repeated her commitment to saving local jobs, Boxer came under fire for Cisco’s own outsourcing of jobs and its keeping of $30 billion offshore to avoid corporate taxes.
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Police Chief Rob Davis’s retirement will cost the city millions of dollars over the next 25 years. A thirty-year veteran of the SJPD, he is entitled to 90 percent of his $230,000 salary, a 3 percent annual hike, and lifetime health insurance for himself and his dependents. Payments on the salary alone are expected to exceed $6 million.
Opening Ballet San Jose’s 25th anniversary season, company veteran Karen Gabay took the starring role on Sunday at the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts in company director Dennis Nahat’s two-decades-old choreographic update of the story ballet ‘Giselle.”
Because the winegrowing region is so vast (from Half Moon Bay to Watsonville and Santa Cruz and both sides of the Coastal Range), it’s easy for wineries to get overlooked by would-be wine tasters and customers. That’s were wine trails come in handy.
High-speed rail may have just received another $900 million in federal funding, but Palo Alto isn’t interested. At last night’s city council meeting, councilmembers voted unanimously to tell the High Speed Rail Authority that they do not want a station in their city. The problem, they say, comes down to traffic, costs, and parking.
Google’s Sergei Brin and Microsoft’s Bill Gates are donating millions of dollars to defeat Prop 23, the ballot initiative which would suspend the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006. Spending for and against the contentious measure could top the $154 million record set in 2006 by Proposition 87. In the past two weeks alone, opponents of Prop 23 have raised $11.9 million.
Neighbors had frequently complained to the police about high stakes gambling taking part in Hillview Park in East San Jose. Yesterday, the SJPD responded. Three men were arrested. One was charged with evading arrest and two were charged withe possession of marijuana for sale. All three were charged with misdemeanor gambling.
Earthquakes set to face New York Red Bulls in playoffs; Sharks take two of three on the road; Stanford rides running game to victory over Washington State; Fresno State ends Spartans bowl chances; Stanford soccer earns two weekend shutouts.
There was something for everyone in the gliding crew of beloved Disney characters, although the young reviews seemed to relate better to the newer ones.
Twelve-year-old is seventh-grader Alex Miller is $3,000 richer thanks to a bug he found in browser Firefox by Mozilla. The University Prep Academy student spent about an hour and a half every day for ten days scanning Firefox for bugs and hoping to win the bounty.
