Opinion: FCC proves it doesn’t get the innovation economy
Silicon Valley has long suspected — after the Federal Communications Commission’s assaults on net neutrality and online privacy — that the FCC doesn’t get the needs of an innovation economy. The FCC’s...
View ArticleOpinion: Make Coyote Valley a gift to future generations
“Make every decision mindful of how it will impact the next seven generations.” — The Great Law of the Iroquois Temporal myopia is the great sin of our era. We underinvest in prenatal care, and in...
View ArticleOpinion: Making San Jose a model city for sustainability
June marked the planet’s hottest June in recorded history, followed by July, the hottest month in recorded history, following four of the individually hottest years in recorded history. July’s heat...
View ArticleOpinion: San Jose needs multiple approaches to solve housing crisis
Amid the complexity that afflicts our lives, some problems have a simple cause. Take our housing crisis: Since 2010, the Bay Area added jobs at a rate at about five times the rate of construction of...
View ArticleOpinion: Our most vulnerable students need learning, internet now
If anyone doubted the impact of the digital divide on the educational and economic destiny of thousands of San Jose children, those doubts vanished on March 13, 2020. On that day, Joshua and Bereniz...
View ArticleOpinion: Measure G would make San Jose police more accountable
“Our goal is to create a beloved community, and this will require a qualitative change in our souls as well as a quantitative change in our lives.” ― Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In the four months...
View ArticleOpinion: We can open our schools and and keep our teachers safe
Throughout this pandemic, we have been urged to “follow the science.” The medical experts, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, U.S. Centers for Disease Control Director Dr. Rochelle Wollensky, and top...
View ArticleOpinion: Reducing homelessness depends on sustaining pandemic’s urgency
This pandemic will pass, but our epidemic of homelessness will persist. Our greatest opportunity to reduce homelessness depends on our ability to heed the lessons of this pandemic and to sustain its...
View ArticleOpinion: County must re-think release of dangerous pandemic-era inmates
Santa Clara County has quietly undergone a pandemic-era experiment of releasing unprecedented numbers of jail inmates. Before the county Board of Supervisors pursues its policy of “depopulating the...
View ArticleOpinion: Please don’t call quick-build transitional housing ‘tiny homes’
Every major city grappling with homelessness can point only to an array of imperfect solutions. With learning, innovation and iteration, however, those solutions can improve. Yet too often our public...
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