For more than a year, city officials looked at following up San Jose’s single-use plastic bag ban with an anti-EPS ordinance. (EPS stands for expanded polystyrene, otherwise known as foam to-go containers at restaurants.) Less than 1 percent of the Bay Area’s EPS is recyclable because of food contamination—the only facility capable is Newby Island in Milpitas—so the nonbiodegradable containers are left to stack in landfills and break apart, often choking animals.
Articles by Josh Koehn
There are at least two sides to many stories, and in the assault against Atul Lall, one comes from a bitter victim of violent crime, while the other emerges from a defensive police department. According to Lall, police lend more credence to his assailants’ drunken recollections.
Somewhere between the time I snuck into a seat at the San Jose Center for Performing Arts last Thursday and the end of comedian Bill Maher’s set, when he announced a personal $1 million contribution to President Obama’s Super PAC, the topic of contraception came into his cross hairs. After a year of conservative-coordinated assaults on Planned Parenthood and other attacks on oral contraceptives and protected sex, we as a country have entered a bizarre moment. Not getting pregnant is the new abortion.
Jacquelyn Damon spends her time with a powerful crime-fighting tool at the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office. It doesn’t fire projectiles of any sort or turn concrete transparent from helicopter heights. The process, known as predictive policing, uses mathematical formulas to prevent burglaries and thefts before they occur.
Jeremy Lin, a graduate of Palo Alto High School, is giving South Bay hoops some credibility.
Leave it to the little guy to have the most ambitious of goals. But when Raul Lozano tells a story—the punch line often punctuated with an expression treading between a smile and a grimace—it’s clear his plans are no joke.
When a pale, lanky fanboy skips through a downtown crosswalk wearing little else than pointy ears and a fox tail, it can only mean one thing: FurCon has returned to San Jose. The city’s annual hot mess, where thousands of men and some women let their guard down to celebrate fetishism in one of its most colorfully public expressions, FurCon—short for Further Confusion—is a stuffed animal freakfest.
The complexity of San Jose’s plastic bag ban, which went into effect Jan. 1, has less to do with any potential fallout as where and how the ban is being implemented.
If smoking and obesity statistics are the most accurate measurements of health, San Jose comes ranks best among all cities in the US.
The Gaslighter Theater in Campbell will remain dark, for now. Campbell’s City Council voted 4-1 on Tuesday to deny an appeal put forward by Melodann, Inc., which had hoped to convert the historic building into a night club named Dasha.
