While food banks struggle to keep local people fed, funding for the federal food stamp program goes unclaimed. The problem, says Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose), is that the application process is too complicated and involves being fingerprinted. Until it can be simplified, Second Harvest is helping people fill out the forms, hoping to reduce some of the strain.
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A local family that participated in the Minute to Win It game show came away $500,000 richer. The Bishops of Willow Glen had five children, ages 10 to 19, participate in a series of challenging games, each one bringing them one step closer to the grand prize of $1 million dollars. The family went farther than any of the show’s other contestants. Now they have to decide what to do with the money they’ve won.
These ten classic field trips in San Jose and surrounding areas will make you feel like a kid again.
Danny Sullivan at Search Engine Land broke a story Tuesday morning about Google’s sting operation, aimed at Bing, which convincingly proved that Microsoft is using Google to perform Bing’s search results. Later yesterday, an unsigned piece on The Official Google Blog spelled out its accusation against Microsoft and broke down the sting operation.
Steven Dietz’s “Private Eyes,” the new offering from Dragon Productions, pushes this underlying conundrum by adding multiple layers of deliberate deceit.
Rob Fischer has another hit on his hands. Fischer is a local restaurateur who owns the Palo Alto Creamery and Reposado, an upscale regional Mexican restaurant across the street from the old-school diner. Last month, he opened Scratch, a fine-dining American restaurant in downtown Mountain View.
Jerry Brown’s plan to dismantle the state’s redevelopment agencies would make things a lot worse for San Jose’s staggering deficit—and eliminate the funding source for the salaries of Mayor Chuck Reed and the San Jose city council.
We are lucky to live in such a bountiful state. Where else can you judge whether Tuscany or Piedmont Italy produces the best wine, grab some fresh, cinnamon churros and finish with a taste of Argentina all in one week? Some might say we’re spoiled, let them, because for us it’s just another South Bay week. Feb. 2-9.
Chris Moore was introduced Tuesday as San Jose’s ninth chief of police, after serving in the role in an interim basis for the last three months.
After several violent incidents last year, Club Wet is on the verge of having its doors permanently shuttered by the city. But any decision in court could be delayed after a last-minute lawsuit was filed by some outsiders to the party.
