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How the State’s New Medical Marijuana Laws Affect San Jose
Two decades after California sanctioned marijuana as medicine and a year out from possibly outright legalization, Gov. Jerry Brown approved a plan Friday to regulate the world’s largest cannabis...
View ArticleCalifornia’s New Pot Laws Challenged in Court
California’s new cannabis regulations violate the state constitution, according to a lawsuit filed by the owner of a local collective. Gov. Jerry Brown signed a trio of bills earlier this month that...
View ArticleSheriff’s Office Revises Crisis Intervention, Anti-Bias Training
In response to the beating death of a mentally ill inmate, Santa Clara County will require crisis intervention training for all sheriff’s deputies and correctional officers. The Sheriff’s Office has...
View ArticleBay Area Leaders: United States Should Welcome Syrian Refugees
Given that one terrorist may have arrived in France with a crush of migrants fleeing the war-torn Middle East, the attacks that claimed 129 lives in Paris intensified opposition to allowing Syrian...
View ArticleAssemblyman Kansen Chu Not Worried by Staff Turnover
As far as freshman years go, state Assemblyman Kansen Chu (D-San Jose) seems content but admits he “could have done more.” He authored just three bills that Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law, including...
View ArticleActivists Revive Effort to Overturn San Jose’s Pot Laws
UPDATE: The City Council deferred the discussion about its medical marijuana ordinance to next week. Frustrated by what they call unworkable regulations, activists have revived an effort to replace San...
View ArticleSCV Water District Appoints New South County Trustee
The Santa Clara Valley Water District has appointed John Varela to its South County seat. The former Morgan Hill mayor was sworn in Thursday. Varela filled the District 1 spot left by Dennis Kennedy,...
View ArticleStartups Race to Corner Market on Medical Marijuana
For years, David Hua encountered problems when he ordered medical marijuana deliveries. Online menus were often outdated. Ordering over the phone took forever. Sending requests by email risked...
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New Research Finds Ethnic Studies Improve Overall Learning
Isaac Nieblas’ world changed when he signed up for a Chicano Studies class at Santa Clara University. The son of Mexican immigrants, Nieblas grew up for a time in Arizona, where ethnic studies were...
View ArticleRecent Cases Highlight Silicon Valley’s Wage Theft ‘Epidemic’
Anis Uzzaman penned the book on Silicon Valley success. In Startup Bible, the founding partner of San Jose-based Fenox Venture Capital preaches the gospel of prosperity-by-disruption to aspiring...
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Fight Erupts at Santa Clara County’s Main Jail
Santa Clara County Main Jail went on lockdown this morning after a fight broke out in the southern wing, authorities said. One inmate was taken to Valley Med to get stitches, but has since been sent...
View ArticleCalifornia Law Raising Smoking Age to 21 Goes into Effect
People can do a lot of things when they become an adult at age 18. Smoking is no longer one of them. A new California law that went into effect Thursday ups the smoking age from 18 to 21. Gov. Jerry...
View ArticlePerdido en la Traducción en los Tribunales del Condado de Santa Clara
Una versión de esta historia en Inglés se puede leer aquí. —Editor Debido a la falta continua de intérpretes, el sistema judicial del condado de Santa Clara ha logrado segregar a los ciudadanos con...
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Lost in Translation: Interpreter Shortage Deprives Justice in Santa Clara...
An excerpt of this story can also be read in Spanish. —Editor Jaime Gonzalez’ daughter leans on her grandmother, who holds the young girl’s sleeping infant brother. Gonzalez sits and waits in the...
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New Laws Attempt to Keep Youth Offenders Out of Justice System
Kids who skip out on transit payments will no longer face criminal charges under legislation signed by Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday. Fare evasion will result in administrative fines, but won’t escalate...
View ArticleLGBTQ History Comes out of the Shadows, into K-12 Classrooms
Certain topics were off limits when Forest Stuart attended high school. Civil rights were covered, but rarely did classes take a deep dive into the contributions of minority communities. Stuart first...
View ArticleA Voter’s Guide to California’s 17 Statewide Ballot Measures
Thanks to the state’s longstanding tradition of direct democracy, every California voter becomes a lawmaker at the ballot box. But this year more than ever, citizen legislators of the electorate better...
View ArticleCalifornia Enacts New Law Prompted by Brock Turner Case
California passed a new law last week that expands the legal definition of rape and mandates prison time for those convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious victim. The bill, signed Friday by...
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New Law Ensures Voting Rights for Felons in Local Jails
By the time he turned 32, Pablo Gaxiola had spent nearly half his life behind steel doors in concrete cells. Fifteen years lost to incarceration. His daughters were growing up without their dad....
View ArticleSan Jose May Allow Pot Delivery, Multiple Cultivation Sites
UPDATE, Oct. 19, 2016: In a 10-1 vote, the council agreed to allow collectives to have more than one cultivation site and make deliveries. If California votes to legalize small amounts of cannabis for...
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