Silicon Valley is a region in Northern California that is a global center for high technology and innovation. Located in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area,it corresponds roughly to the geographical area of the Santa Clara Valley. The term "Silicon Valley" refers to the area in which high-tech business has proliferated in Northern California,and it also serves as a general metonym for California's high-tech business sector.
San Jose,officially the City of San José,is the largest city in Northern California by both population and area. With a 2020 population of 1,013,240,it is the most populous city in both the Bay Area and the San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland Combined Statistical Area,which has a 2015 population of 7.7 million and 9.7 million people respectively,the third-most populous city in California after Los Angeles and San Diego,and the 12th-most populous in the United States. Located in the center of the Santa Clara Valley on the southern shore of San Francisco Bay,San Jose covers an area of 179.97 sq mi (466.1 km2). San Jose is the county seat of Santa Clara County and the main component of the San Jose–Sunnyvale–Santa Clara Metropolitan Statistical Area,with an estimated population of around two million residents in 2018.
The Santa Clara Valley is a geologic trough in Northern California that extends 90 miles (140 km) south–southeast from San Francisco to Hollister. The longitudinal valley is bordered on the west by the Santa Cruz Mountains and on the east by the Diablo Range;the two coastal ranges meet south of Hollister. The San Francisco Bay borders the valley to the north,and fills much of the northern third of the valley. The valley floor is an alluvial plain that formed in the graben between the San Andreas Fault to the west and the Hayward and Calaveras faults to the east. Within the valley and surrounding the bay on three sides are the urban communities of San Mateo County,Santa Clara County,and Alameda County,while the narrow southern reaches of the valley extend into rural San Benito County to Hollister. In practical terms,the central portion of the Santa Clara Valley is often considered by itself,contained entirely within Santa Clara County.
The Mercury News is a morning daily newspaper published in San Jose,California,in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is published by the Bay Area News Group,a subsidiary of Digital First Media. As of March 2013,it was the fifth largest daily newspaper in the United States,with a daily circulation of 611,194. As of 2018,the paper has a circulation of 324,500 daily and 415,200 on Sundays. As of 2021,this further declined. The Bay Area News Group no longer reports its circulation,but rather "readership". For 2021,they reported a "readership" of 312,700 adults daily.
Downtown San Jose is the central business district of San Jose,California. Downtown is one of the largest tech clusters in Silicon Valley,as well as the cultural and political center of San Jose.
Ronald R. Gonzales is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party,who served as the 63rd Mayor of San Jose,California. Gonzales was the first Hispanic to serve as Mayor of San Jose since 1845.
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.
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.
San Jose Diridon station is the central passenger rail depot for San Jose,California. It also serves as a major intermodal transit center for Santa Clara County and Silicon Valley. The station is named after former Santa Clara County Supervisor Rod Diridon.
Charles Rufus Reed is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 64th Mayor of San Jose,California from 2007 to 2014.
San Jose,California,is the third largest city in the state,and the largest of all cities in the San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California,with a population of 1,021,795.
San JoséCity Hall is the seat of the municipal government of San Jose,California. Located in Downtown San Jose,it was designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Richard Meier in a Postmodern style. It consists of an 18-story tower,an iconic glass rotunda,and a city council chamber wing,laid out within a two-block-long public square known as San JoséCivic Plaza. The tower rises 285 feet (87 m) above the plaza,making it the fourth tallest building in San Jose.
The San Jose McEnery Convention Center is a convention center in Downtown San Jose,California. The 550,000-square-foot (51,000 m2) facility is the largest convention center in Silicon Valley. It is known for hosting high-profile technology conferences and events like the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference and Facebook F8,as well as non-tech events like FanimeCon and Silicon Valley Comic Con.
San Jose Sports &Entertainment Enterprises (SJSEE) is a privately-held company based in San Jose,California which owns the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League,the San Jose Barracuda of the American Hockey League,and oversees all areas of operation and management of the city-owned SAP Center at San Jose,the premier sports and entertainment venue in Santa Clara County.
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 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.
Samuel Theodore Liccardo is an American politician from California who served as the 65th mayor of San Joséfrom 2015 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party,Liccardo was elected mayor in November 2014. He was reelected in 2018 with 75.8% of the vote. As the leader of the California Big City Mayors Coalition,Liccardo advocated on statewide issues including homelessness and COVID-19 response.
The following is a timeline of the history of San Jose,California,United States.
The 1982 San Jose mayoral election was held on June 8,1982 to elect the mayor of San Jose,California. Tom McEnery was elected. Because McEnrery won an outright majority in the initial round of the election,no runoff election needed to be held.
