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Mercury News Letters to the Editor for Feb. 11, 2024

Former top San Jose city staffer files defamation lawsuit against mayor and chief of staff

National bills may force Santa Clara County regional airports to sell leaded fuel again despite the known health risk to surrounding neighborhoods.

Considered a newcomer to San Jose politics, Matt Mahan is now Mayor of San Jose. After briefly serving on the City Council, Mahan won a tight race last November against Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez.

A party bus driver was hospitalized Friday night when he was hit by a car after exiting the bus on the 14 Freeway east of Santa Clarita. 

Elected officials from throughout Santa Clara County gathered at Robert Peckham Federal Building in downtown San Jose on Friday morning, hours after the Supreme...

Santa Clara County officials gathered Monday to reassure residents that county...

Matt Mahan criticized the Board of Supervisors for approving $76 million in bonuses for the county's 22,000 workers, arguing that federal American Rescue Plan Act dollars were not intended for rewarding government employees.

San jose city hall this evening at 6:00 p.m. to give all of the members of our community an opportunity to gather together, to grieve together, perhaps to reconvene after far too long apart during this pandemic. and together embark on that critically important path. i want to thank all of those in the community who have stepped up and given to the fund that supervisor chavez referred to to support the families, volunteers of the red cross. i want to thank county behavioral health who came out in...

People that we gave awards to for employee of the month, people that we gave awards to for a number of things in local government. youre in direct contact with the personnel and the employees and workers who serve for many years like this. so they sit down with you. they bargain with you. they talk to you about issues directly. -- lobbyists or other people. yes, its -- john courtney is one of those people. i was relieved he was one of the folks -- of the 40 that were there that -- >> yeah, senat...