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January 28, 2026 by

Leadership turmoil returns to Hispanic Silicon Valley business group

For the second time in seven years, a prominent South Bay business group has found itself embroiled in...

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January 27, 2026 by

UPDATE: San Jose council delays mobile home rent increase

Some of the last naturally affordable housing in San Jose may be preserved, after officials deferred a proposed...

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January 27, 2026 by

Santa Clara County Fair date change hurts youth farmers

Santa Clara County fairgrounds officials have changed the date of the annual fair to keep their carnival contracts....

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January 27, 2026 by

Feds expected in South Bay during Super Bowl 60

Federal agents are anticipated to be in the South Bay ahead of the Super Bowl, as the nation...

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January 27, 2026 by

Santa Clara County residents consider leaving the area

A significant number of Santa Clara County residents say they’re considering leaving the Bay Area, a reflection of...

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January 25, 2026 by

Congressman secures millions of dollars for Silicon Valley projects

Dysfunction and federal funding cuts in Washington, D.C. aren’t stopping one Silicon Valley lawmaker from getting money into his...

Latest Opinion

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Op-ed: Relocating Santa Clara City Hall at the cost of downtown again?

Santa Clara is on the verge of repeating one of the most painful mistakes in its history. For those new citizens to Santa Clara, the city has the distinction of being the only city in America to demolish its own downtown. In the 2017 Mercury News article “The worst local decisions of the last 50 years,” Scott Herhold wrote: “No land-use decision of the last half-century has damaged the urban fabric of a city more than Santa Clara’s decision to tear down its eight-block downtown in the 1960s.” In 1957, Santa Clara secured millions of federal and local dollars to...

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The Podlight

The cost of cutting SNAP: Families on the brink in Silicon Valley

The cost of cutting SNAP: Families on the brink in Silicon Valley

With federal SNAP benefits stalling, food insecurity is rising sharply across Silicon Valley. In this episode, we sit down with Leslie Bacho, CEO of Second Harvest of Silicon Valley, to talk about the growing demand for food assistance, the human toll of federal funding cuts and what can be done to ensure no one in our community goes hungry.