People who went out to vote yesterday could kill two birds with one stone. Two polling stations in Santa Clara County also offered flu vaccines to voters and non-voters alike. The program was initiated by and run in conjunction with Stanford University’s School of Medicine.

Two adjacent buildings—a cafe and a recycling center—were destroyed in a four alarm fire in San Jose Sunday morning. It took firefighters until about 6:00 am to get the blaze under control, and by the time they were finished, both buildings were gutted and railroad tracks running behind the buildings had to be shut down.

Students at San Jose State University and other CSU schools may find themselves paying more tuition this spring semester. CSU Chancellor Charles Reed has proposed a 5 percent hike for the coming semester, followed by a 10 percent tuition hike this fall.  If approved the hike, it will be the fourth time that tuition has gone up in the CSU system since 2007.

Logitech has teamed up with the social networking program Neighborhood Central to provide neighborhood watch groups with fifty surveillance cameras. According to Logitech’s Eric Kintz, ““It’s HD quality so you can see license plates, recognize faces, and its motion sensitive so that you can record what matters to you.”

Blind tasting challenge at Artisan Wine Depot; Summit to Sea and Psycho Donuts Tasting Event; Winemaker Dinner at Cin Cin; Winemaker dinner at California Cafe in Palo Alto; Anthony Bourdain at Sur la Table; British pub crawl.

It’s no secret the real estate market is still depressed, especially when compared to Silicon Valley’s boom years. Those looking to capitalize on the down market will find many foreclosures available—there are more than 300 foreclosed properties listed in San Jose alone, and hundreds more throughout the valley.

Wine Enthusiast magazine named J. Lohr Vineyards the finest American winery of the year. The tribute recognized the vineyard for its wines as well as its contributions to women’s health and for going green.

The San Jose City Council voted 4-7 to postpone the payment of bonus checks to retirees for eight months.: The current pension system is $2 billion in the hole and unsustainable as is, warned City Auditor Sharon Erickson. Mayor Chuck Reed agreed, warning that if the city does not do something about pension costs, it will run out of money in 17 years.

Ten former San Jose Giants, including the entire postseason starting rotation, closer Brian Wilson and rookie phenom Buster Posey, will attempt to slay the Texas Rangers in the 2010 World Series starting tonight. Wilson and Posey will join starting pitchers Tim Lincecum, Matt Cain, Jonathan Sanchez and Madison Bumgarner, as well as Sergio Romo, Travis Ishikawa, Nate Schierholtz and Pablo Sandoval, as former San Jose Giants trying to break the San Francisco Giants 56-year World Series drought.