With a moderate stance on housing and homelessness, Mayor Matt Mahan will likely sail into re-election as he faces no serious competitors vying for his seat in the March primary, more than a year after winning San Jose’s top elected post in a surprise upset against labor forces. Despite the lack of challengers, Mahan has … Read more
San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan is leaving little room open for any changes to the region’s largest-ever transportation proposal, despite a call last week by his predecessor, a longtime champion of the project, for the Valley Transportation Authority to scale back an entire leg of the six-mile extension because of exploding costs and delays. On … Read more
It was a hot San Jose summer day two years ago when the city’s animal control squad set off to seize 20 dogs from a suspected illegal dog breeding business. The string of missteps that followed would mark one of the darkest days in the city shelter’s recent history, but records show it wouldn’t be … Read more