The Willow Glen Neighborhood Association is hosting this nonpartisan forum to introduce the candidates for the District 15 Senate seat in the upcoming 2020 election. The format of the event will be equal time Q&A with time for audience questions at the end. Senate District 15 is comprised of 950,000 residents and encompasses a large portion of Santa Clara County, stretching from Cupertino east to Mount Hamilton and from Los Gatos north to San Jose’s Alum Rock District. The cities of Cupertino...

Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call The Democrats running for president in 2020, while sharing a general goal of “expanding health coverage,” have two fundamental disagreements about health care. One is on the policy: Would the best insurance system be one fully funded by the federal government? The Democrats who support Sen. Bernie Sanders’s Medicare-for-all bill are saying it is, while other candidates prefer to build more gradually on the public-private system we have now or openly running against the...

Four from the large field of Democratic challengers have released very detailed proposals. Others have talked more broadly about the need for a national housing strategy.

Voters will likely consider a proposal in 2020 to limit Proposition 13's tax limits to homeowners, boosting assessments on commercial properties and using much of the money on K-12 schools.

Getty Images/iStockphoto California wants to make it clear that tinkering with your own genes is a “don’t try this at home” sort of thing. The state is making it illegal to sell a do-it-yourself genetic engineering kit unless it comes with a clear warning stating that “the kit is not for self-administration.” This is a notable escalation of an effort to regulate biohacking, a movement that’s gotten people interested in hacking their genomes — although it bears noting that right now, nobody ap...

Marshall Woodmansee is expected to become the youngest candidate in the 2020 local elections after he filed papers on Wednesday to run for San Jose City Council. In an interview with San José Spotlight, Woodmansee said he wants to inspire the youth in his community to know they hold the power in deciding their future. “That power has to be enacted now,” Woodmansee said. “We can no longer wait for someone else to do something.” Woodmansee, 18, is running for City Council in District 6, making ...

A local coalition of union-aligned advocacy groups hope to upend what they call a pay-to-play environment in San Jose politics.

As the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors race heats up heading into its March, 2020, primary, one candidate who’s becoming more of a visible presence around Milpitas is former Mayor of Sunnyvale Otto Lee… Lee was mayor there from ‘06 to ‘07, after having been elected to the Sunnyvale City Council in ‘03. He […]

NEW: @DaveCortese announces big fundraising haul in Senate race, followed by @JohnnyKhamis and @AnnMRavelhttps://sanjosespotlight.com/dave-cortese-announces-big-fundraising-haul-in-senate-race/#.XSUJXFIaIs8.twitter … Dave Cortese announces big fundraising haul in Senate race - San José Spotlight Candidates facing off in a tight state Senate race have eight months left before the primary election, setting off a full-blown dash for cash among ... sanjosespotlight.com

Green Party candidate Jake Tonkel has jumped into the San Jose City Council race in District 6, forcing incumbent Dev Davis to fend off two challengers in her re-election bid next fall. “I want to ensure our city is moving forward in a way that addresses income inequality,” Tonkel, 28, told San José Spotlight. “My generation is being eaten up by it and it’s not just me. Our seniors are being pushed out of their homes. It’s hard to see that happen in a city that I love.” Tonkel, a biomedical e...

San Jose Councilmember Sergio Jimenez who handily beat a Republican challenger four years ago is about to face another one — and he’s a familiar name in political circles. Mechanical engineer Jonathan Fleming, who unsuccessfully ran against one-term Councilmember Tam Nguyen in 2016, just moved into Jimenez’s district. And now he’s challenging the longtime Democrat,...

Presidential challengers in California’s newly relevant primary: Your fate may hinge on convincing millennials to send postcards over the winter holiday season.

Dominguez announced exclusively to San José Spotlight that she’s running for Assembly District 25, a highly-contested seat vacated by Kansen Chu who told this news organization in May that he’s leaving Sacramento to run for county supervisor. Dominguez, 37, became a firecracker lawmaker in Milpitas after winning a crowded City Council race in 2018 and then being appointed vice mayor. “For me, it’s an opportunity of a lifetime,” Dominguez said in an interview Thursday. “I’ve been speaking to c...

Yet another Milpitan jumped into the 25th Assembly District race to succeed Assemblyman Kansen Chu.

While White House hopefuls crisscross the country making big promises on many issues, they have largely ignored one — the soaring number of unsheltered Americans — that has reached a crisis point in communities on the West Coast and.. • Front Page • One News Page: Thursday, 13 June 2019

Candidates Lining Up to Succeed Assemblyman Kansen Chu

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(SACRAMENTO, CA) – Assemblymember Kansen Chu introduced AB 300 and AB 301, taking action on the growing number of hate crimes and recommendations from the 2018 hate crimes auditor report completed by the California State Auditor. Specifically, AB 300 and AB 301 will reduce the under and misreporting of hate crimes, improve prosecution rates, enhance reporting tools, and implement other recommendations from the audit report. These bills build on Assemblymember Chu’s work to address the conti...

Dear Friends, I am excited to share with you policy ideas that I am pursuing in Sacramento this year. I have introduced my legislative package for the year and know that they will positively impact communities statewide. My main focus this year is to increase access to mental health services for youth and AB 8 will require every K-12 school in our state to have mental health