Santa Clara is a city in the county of the same name. The city's population was 127,647 at the 2020 census,making it the eighth-most populous city in the Bay Area. Located in the southern Bay Area,the city was founded by the Spanish in 1777 with the establishment of Mission Santa Clara de Asís under the leadership of Junípero Serra.
Sunnyvale is a city located in the Santa Clara Valley in northwest Santa Clara County in the U.S. state of California.
The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority,more commonly known simply as the Valley Transportation Authority (VTA),is a special district responsible for public transit services,congestion management,specific highway improvement projects,and countywide transportation planning for Santa Clara County,California. It serves San Jose,California,and the surrounding Silicon Valley. It is one of the governing parties for the Caltrain commuter rail line that serves the county. In 2022,the VTA's public transportation services had a combined ridership of 21,381,600,or about 84,800 per weekday as of the third quarter of 2023.
Metro is a free weekly newspaper published by the San Jose,California,based Metro Newspapers. Also known as Metro Silicon Valley,as well as Metroactive online,the paper serves the greater Silicon Valley area. In addition to print form,Metro can be downloaded in PDF format for free from the publisher's website. Metro also keeps tabs on local politics and the "chattering" class of San Jose through its weekly column,The Fly.
Liz Kniss is an American politician who served as Mayor of Palo Alto,California. Kniss was elected to the Palo Alto City Council in 2013. She also serves on the boards of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District and the Family Health Plan of Santa Clara County.
Madison Nguyen is an American politician from California. She served on the San Jose City Council from 2005 to 2014,representing District 7,and she additionally served as Vice-Mayor from 2011 to 2014. She was the first Vietnamese-American elected to the city council.
Charles Rufus Reed is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 64th Mayor of San Jose,California from 2007 to 2014.
Cindy Chavez is an American politician who serves as the Santa Clara County supervisor representing district two,which is home to nearly 400,000 residents in Downtown,East,and South San Jose. Her public service career began in the 1990s as a policy analyst for health care,public health,human services and transportation for the Board of Supervisors. She served two terms on the San Jose City Council,where she was also Vice Mayor,and also served on the board leadership of public agencies such as the San Jose Redevelopment Agency,and executive director of Working Partnerships USA and the South Bay AFL-CIO Labor Council. She has unsuccessfully run for Mayor of San Jose twice. She is a graduate of San Jose State University,is married and has a son in college.
Pierluigi Oliverio was the 6th district Councilmember on the San Jose City Council. He was sworn in on March 20,2007,and left office in 2016.
Otto Oswald Lee is a Hong Kong-born American politician,attorney,and military veteran who was a Sunnyvale,California city council member from 2003 to 2011,before which he was on the Planning Commission,which he chaired from 2000 to 2001. From 2005 to 2006 he was vice mayor,and from 2006 to 2007 he was the 57th mayor of Sunnyvale. He is a patent attorney,and a co-founder and partner of the Intellectual Property Law Group LLP.
Santa Clara County,officially the County of Santa Clara,is the sixth-most populous county in the U.S. state of California,with a population of 1,936,259,as of the 2020 census. Santa Clara County and neighboring San Benito County together form the U.S. Census Bureau's San Jose–Sunnyvale–Santa Clara metropolitan statistical area,which is part of the larger San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland combined statistical area. Santa Clara is the most populous county in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Northern California. The county seat and largest city is San Jose;with about 1,000,000 residents,it is the 10th-most populous city in the United States,California's third-most populous city and the most populous city in the San Francisco Bay Area. The second- and third-largest cities are Sunnyvale and Santa Clara.
Evan Low is an American politician currently serving in the California State Assembly. He is a Democrat representing the 26th Assembly District,which encompasses parts of the Northern CA South Bay and Silicon Valley,including Cupertino,Sunnyvale,Santa Clara and portions of northern and western San Jose. He is a member of the California Legislative LGBT Caucus,and currently serves as Chair of the California Asian American &Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus.
Berryessa/North San Joséstation is an intermodal transit center located in the Berryessa district of San Jose,California. The station is served by Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) and Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) buses. The transit center opened for bus service on December 28,2019,and subsequently for BART service on June 13,2020. The station is the southern terminus of the Orange Line and Green Line.
The Silicon Valley BART extension is an ongoing effort to expand the Green and Orange Line service by Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) into Santa Clara County via the East Bay from its former terminus at the Fremont station in Alameda County. Planned since at least 1981,the project has seven stations in three sequential phases.
The South Bay Labor Council,AFL–CIO (SBLC),is the labor council of Santa Clara and San Benito counties in California's Bay Area. The SBLC is affiliated with the AFL–CIO,one of the national labor confederations of the United States. The SBLC represents over 100,000 men and women of 101 unions in Silicon Valley.
The 2014 San Jose mayoral election was held on June 3,2014 to elect the Mayor of San Jose,California. Councilmember Sam Liccardo defeated Santa Clara County Supervisor Dave Cortese in a runoff on November 4,2014.
The 1998 San Jose mayoral election was held on June 2 and November 3,1998 to elect the Mayor of San Jose,California. It saw the election of Ron Gonzales.
Matthew William Mahan is an American politician and tech entrepreneur,now serving his first term as the Mayor of San Jose. He previously served as the District 10 Councilmember representing the Almaden Valley, Blossom Valley,and Vista Park neighborhoods. Mahan also served as the co-founder and CEO of Brigade Media,a tech company focused on civic engagement.
The 2022 San Jose mayoral election was held on November 8,2022,to elect the next mayor of San Jose for a two-year term. A top-two primary was held on June 7,2022,and no candidate received more than 50% in this primary election. Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez and San Jose City Councilmember Matt Mahan advanced to a November 8 runoff election. On November 16,Cindy Chavez conceded the race to Matt Mahan.
The 1978 San Jose mayoral election was held to elect the mayor of San Jose,California. It saw an initial election held on June 6,1978,followed by a runoff election on November 7,1978,after no candidate managed to obtain a majority in the initial election. The runoff was won by incumbent mayor Janet Gray Hayes.
