July 22, 2020 Santa Clara’s Santana Is Actually State’s Highest-paid City Manager for Second Year in a Row By Barry Holtzclaw Note: This new assessment prompted San Jose Inside to take a fresh look at two years of compensation for employees in California cities. Read More 11
June 10, 2020 Kaiser, PAMF, Stanford Ordered to ‘Step Up’ and Test for COVID-19 By Barry Holtzclaw COVID-19 tests are to be offered free of charge, and tests do not affect immigration status or require a physician’s note. Read More 1
May 26, 2020 Santa Clara County Offers Closer Look at $97M in COVID Costs By Jennifer Wadsworth The financial disclosures come three months after the county declared a state of emergency, which expanded its authority to fight the crisis. Read More 12
May 20, 2020 Santa Clara County Supervisors Call for Greater Transparency Over Emergency Spending By Jennifer Wadsworth Two county supervisors want a COVID cost tracker so the public can see precisely what’s being invested to pull through this crisis. Read More 5
May 4, 2020 Reagent Shortage Hinders Widespread Covid-19 Testing By Grace Hase Santa Clara County health officials are looking to increase testing capacity to 1,300 a day. But they’ve hit a road block getting there. Read More 3
April 28, 2020 Fewer Than 200 of Santa Clara County’s 10,000 Homeless Have Been Tested for Coronavirus By Grace Hase Though they’re among the most vulnerable, unhoused people struggle to get tested for the coronavirus and find shelter for quarantine. Read More 5
April 18, 2020 Cannabis Sellers Slam Local Rule Allowing Delivery But Not Pickup By Grace Hase As part of its sweeping public health order, Santa Clara county has made recreational cannabis dispensaries illegal again. Read More 12
April 15, 2020 Santa Clara County—Not S.F.—Was Ahead of the Curve with Public Health Mandate By The Fly Despite living in San Francisco’s shadow, South Bay health officials were always one step ahead of the City by the Bay. Read More 26
April 7, 2020 Coronavirus Live Updates, April 7, 2020: Dr. Cody Talks About the Impact of Sheltering in Place By Silicon Valley Newsroom The county’s chief health officer talks about what would have happened had she not issued the nation’s first sweeping stay-at-home order. Read More 10
April 6, 2020 Santa Clara County Field Hospital Accepts First COVID-19 Patients By Silicon Valley Newsroom The county is also working with local hotels and homeless shelters to isolate and care for people who have nowhere else to go. Read More 18