San Jose will seek legal action if the utility doesn't replace or repair its failing infrastructure after more than 30,000 households and three hospitals experienced power outages this week.

The New York Times spotlights San Jose police salary negotiations as a measure of the high cost of living in the Bay Area.

During Sam Liccardo's City Hall reign, the SJPD went from 1,370 officers to 1151 authorized police positions and today can only field 961 street-ready officers, and hundreds more officers are planning on leaving over the next 24-months.

A tireless advocate for community organizations and projects, Joe most recently served in a leadership capacity with the Bay Area Furniture Bank, a non-profit that transports and donates surplus furniture to families in need.

While the San Jose Police Officers Association claims response times are growing and predicted a “mass exodus” of officers because of pay and working conditions, the city counters that the department has the lowest vacancy rate in a decade, and its officers’ salaries are among the highest in the Bay Area.

The city will donate more than $1 million in safety equipment to first responders in Ukraine, including breathing apparatus air packs, mask-mounted regulators, air cylinders and several hundred breathing apparatus masks.

The City Council voted Tuesday to build 400 more emergency interim housing units, buy Arena Hotel with state funds and finance 561 new affordable housing units.

In San José, despite a hotly contested mayoral contest, just 17 percent of the more than a half-million eligible voters had returned ballots one day before the election.

New policy says allegations of sexual misconduct, assault or battery, theft or bribery by a city employee will result in immediate administrative leave until a preliminary investigation is complete.

The city says that the state housing and transportation funds will provide 79 units of affordable housing, bike/pedestrian transportation improvements to Roosevelt Park and two electric buses for VTA.

The mayor said his vaccination against the virus apparently has prevented any serious symptoms so far.

Mayor Sam Liccardo’s stated goal is to have 1,000 units of interim housing planned, under construction, or completed by the end of 2022.

A fatal drug overdose, drug use by an officer, DUI while off-duty and indecent exposure at a crime scene prompted promises of tough new oversight and training at the San Jose Police Department.

Thang Do, of Saratoga, was CEO of Aedis Architects and founder of SoFA Market and The Fountainhead Bar in downtown San Jose.

The funds will be used to convert the 90-unit Arena Hotel, 817 The Alameda, to interim and future permanent housing for homeless individuals and couples.

With the highest level of sustainably-sourced energy out of any major city, the city is on track to meet its carbon-neutral goal by 2030