A rally and interfaith service are planned for this Friday outside the County Building in San Jose to protest the planned burning of the Koran in Gainesville, Florida.
→ Read MoreThe "Case of the Missing Fairy" came to a happy ending yesterday, when the missing statue of the Wilis was carted back to the city. The thief's identity remains unknown.
→ Read MoreJust one day after Oracle announced it had hired former HP CEO Mark Hurd as co-president, HP retaliates with a lawsuit to prevent Hurd from taking the position.
→ Read MoreJoey Chestnut comes in at second place in the National Buffalo Wing Festival, after devouring only 169 wings. The winner, Sonya Thomas, had 181.
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The lynching of Harold Thurmond and Jack Holmes for the kidnap and murder of Brooke Hart in San Jose in November 1933 was a singular event in American history. Never before or since has the rule of law been so collectively subverted by law enforcement (including the FBI), public officials, community leaders, everyday citizens and the press.
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Robert Bulterman never counted on PACE to save his business. The 46-year-old electrician and solar technician, like a lot of green-collar workers, had admittedly held high hopes that Property Assessed Clean Energy would infuse the overcrowded sustainable energy industry with a slew of much-needed jobs.
But to count on it doing so, he says, would have been “just plain stupid.” As it turns out, Bulterman’s skepticism was well founded.
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When he ran for mayor of San Jose, Chuck Reed promised greater transparency. On Wednesday that promise will be put to the test. A committee, headed by the Mayor, will decide whether to succumb to pressure by journalists and citizens’ groups to release information that the SJPD says will invade privacy and hinder its ability to fight crime.
→ Read MoreTeam San Jose has signed a three-year contract to continue to host the Rock ‘N’ Roll San Jose Half Marathon. This year’s event, scheduled for October 3, will feature everything from funk to acoustic to adult contemporary and end with a concert by Blues Traveler.
→ Read MoreMark Hurd, who was forced to resign as head honcho at Hewlett Packard last month, has taken on a new position as president of Oracle. The move was made possible with the resignation of Oracle’s former president, Charles Phillips.
→ Read MoreUSAgain, a for-profit venture designed to keep clothing out of landfills, is spreading its drop boxes across the Bay Area, and raising questions about recycled clothing. Green and white drop boxes have already popped up in Los Gatos, Sunnyvale, and Mountain View, and dozens more will blanket the Bay Area over the coming months.
→ Read MoreSaturday was moving day for the Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition, and over a dozen volunteers came to help out with the move. They hauled the desks and cabinets—and lots of paperwork and office supplies too—3.5 miles to the United Way Building in San Jose, all by the power of their own two pedals.
→ Read MoreA statue of one of the Wilis in the ballet Giselle has stood in the courtyard of the Montgomery Theater since it was first commissioned in 1979. Now that the city has decided to relocate it to the San Jose Center for Performing Arts in time for an autumn performance of Giselle, the statue has disappeared.
→ Read MoreCounty Assessor Larry Stone has estimated that thousands of properties will be reassessed for far less than they are currently listed, meaning less revenue for the county and city. EBay’s property alone, once valued at over $220 million, is now worth just is now valued at just $131.5 million.
→ Read MoreB-R-E Properties has bought half of what was once the Town and Country shopping center in downtown Sunnyvale, and hopes to convert it into a housing and retail complex. The property, which has already changed hands several times this year, sold for $19 million.
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