AltWeeklies Wire
God Save the Queennew
Hobby beekeeping surges as scientists debate the mystery of disappearing bees.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Henry Housekeeper |
03-21-2016 |
Environment
Silicon Valley's Wage Theft Epidemicnew
A series of egregious wage theft cases show how Silicon Valley’s disruptive industries can open the door for employee abuse.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Jennifer Wadsworth |
03-10-2016 |
Business & Labor
Homeless Techie Launches Janitorial Startupnew
British ex-pat Simon Brooks stumbled into the cleaning business after a failed tech venture left him broke and homeless in Silicon Valley.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Jennifer Wadsworth |
02-25-2016 |
Business & Labor
The Dodgy Politics Behind the Levi's Stadium Dealnew
A civil grand jury has been quietly investigating the oversight body of Levi’s Stadium, home to the San Francisco 49ers and Super Bowl 50, while billionaire developers play chess for Santa Clara’s future.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Josh Koehn |
02-05-2016 |
Housing & Development
California Nudist Resort Exploits Workersnew
A lawsuit claims that the owners of Los Gatos nudist resort Lupin Lodge effectively reduced dozens of live-in workers to indentured servitude.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Jennifer Wadsworth |
10-22-2015 |
Business & Labor
Passing Grassnew
A sweeping package of bills signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown will transform California’s billion-dollar medical marijuana sector with a complex system of testing and licensing.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Jennifer Wadsworth |
10-16-2015 |
Drugs
Housing Crisis Leaves Section 8 Renters on Outside Looking Innew
In Silicon Valley, 1,028 people have a rental subsidy in hand but no place to use it, leaving them in limbo, bunking with friends or family, ducking under tents and overpasses or languishing in shelters.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Jennifer Wadsworth |
09-24-2015 |
Homelessness
Silicon Valley’s Low-Income Renters Find Few Protections from Predatory Landlordsnew
A public interest lawsuit that paints one property owner as an unrepentant slumlord reflects a growing power imbalance between landlords and tenants.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Jennifer Wadsworth |
09-17-2015 |
Housing & Development
Iconic Bakery Dogged by Racism, Retaliation Allegationsnew
Peters’ Bakery has done business in East San Jose for nearly 80 years, but a legal dispute between the owner and a worker has turned ugly.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Jennifer Wadsworth |
08-14-2015 |
Business & Labor
Coffee Cart Startup Creates Jobs for the Formerly Homelessnew
Kartma employs formerly homeless people and equip them with not only the skills to brew gourmet coffee but to staff, stock, market and otherwise run a small business.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Jennifer Wadsworth |
08-10-2015 |
Homelessness
No End in Sight for California Capital Punishment Fightnew
For now, capital punishment in California resembles an M. C. Escher drawing—a Möbius strip going endlessly nowhere.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Tom Gogola |
08-05-2015 |
Crime & Justice
Bad Nudes Bared: Lupin Lodge’s Idyllic Clothing-Free Lifestyle Unravels in Alarming Fashionnew
Natural disasters. Kinky sex. Meth abuse. Worker exploitation. A dead motorcyclist. A con man. Can it get any worse for the once idyllic Lupin Lodge?
Metro Silicon Valley |
Jennifer Wadsworth |
07-24-2015 |
Features
Santa Clara County Official Pleads Guilty to All Chargesnew
Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors President George Shirkawa pleaded guilty to all 12 charges against him. A Metro Silicon Valley investigation first exposed Shirkawa's actions in September 2012.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Josh Koehn |
03-18-2013 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: George Shirkawa
Roll Numbersnew
ANTI-DRUG ADS have long portrayed pot smokers as lazy and unmotivated. But given the announcement by medical cannabis supporters at a press conference last Friday, that old stereotype needs some revising.
Faced with what they called a back-door ban of San Jose's collectives, the barely month-old Citizens Coalition for Patient Care (CCPC) turned in more than 47,000 signatures to the city clerk that morning, well over the 29,653 signatures needed for a referendum against regulations the City Council passed in September.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Ted Cox |
11-03-2011 |
Drugs
How We Americans Spent Ourselves Into Ruin but Saved the Worldnew
Something is very wrong with the unselective manner in which folks on the other side have allowed the neocons to define the argument. It is an unfortunate habit of the left to assume that any vocal and assertive appreciation of the American contribution to human civilization must be fascist.
Metro Silicon Valley |
David Brin |
12-11-2009 |
Economy
