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Doug King in San Jose @dekgreen.bsky.social · 1d

Tony & Alba's Pizza (on Steven's Creek, near Valley Fair) is stepping up to feed kids who might otherwise go without due to lack of SNAP funding.

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Sal Pizarro @salpizarro.bsky.social · 5d

And I’d throw “Killers of the Flower Moon” on there, though YMMV.

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The Mercury News @mercurynews.com · 6d

Downtown San Jose bars get into the Halloween spirit trib.al/WDY5Ly3

Downtown San Jose bars get into the Halloween spirit

Lounges get dressed up for the spooky holiday with decor themed to spooky movies and TV shows like “Halloween” and “Stranger Things.”

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 9d

Know something that’s never down due to AWS? A gosh dang newspaper.

The newest edition of The Onion featuring the headline Trump Denies Writing 36-Volume Comic Titled Don and Jeff: Time Pedophiles

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The Mercury News @mercurynews.com · 9d

More than 160,000 protesters turned out for Bay Area ‘No Kings’ protests trib.al/g1qhTV3

More than 160,000 protesters turned out for Bay Area ‘No Kings’ protests

The local protesters joined about 7 million protesters from coast to coast.

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The Mercury News @mercurynews.com · 12d

San Jose employees, meet your new chatbot assistant? City eyes expansion of AI trib.al/ENcJy60

San Jose employees, meet your new chatbot assistant? City eyes expansion of AI

San Jose is soliciting proposals for a generative AI platform that can reduce some of the repetitive and administrative aspects of city workers’ jobs.

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The Mercury News @mercurynews.com · 11d

Notre Dame High’s Women of Impact honorees have a family connection trib.al/2qMyd3C

Notre Dame High’s Women of Impact honorees have a family connection

Dr. Sejal Hathi, a 2009 Notre Dame graduate, said it was a coincidence the school honored both her and her godmother, Superior Court Judge Erica Yew, this year.

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Catalyze SV @catalyzesv.bsky.social · 13d

"I wish I could say it surprised me, but it does not, at all," said Alex Shoor, executive director of Catalyze Silicon Valley, a local housing advocacy group.

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The Mercury News @mercurynews.com · 13d

Martha’s Kitchen moves into bigger facility in San Jose trib.al/z5lK6Hi

Martha’s Kitchen moves into bigger facility in San Jose

Executive Director Bill Lee says the nonprofit provided 2.4 million meals to clients last year. The new facility on Story Road will allow it to nearly triple that number.

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Rep. Sam Liccardo @liccardo.house.gov · 15d

Congratulations to San José’s own Ameya Desai, winner of this year’s @NPR Middle School Student Podcast Challenge!

Her impactful podcast, Far From Home – Shikata Ga, tells the story of a Japanese American internment through the eyes of a retired teacher. [1/2]

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The Mercury News @mercurynews.com · 15d

San Jose interfaith group PACT honors John A. Sobrato trib.al/Uu7YTTs

San Jose interfaith group PACT honors John A. Sobrato

More than 300 people attended the lunch at the Mexican Heritage Plaza, which also celebrated the community organizing group’s 40th anniversary.

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The Mercury News @mercurynews.com · 18d

With fireworks on, off the field, Santa Teresa outlasts Live Oak in 84-point league-opener bonanza trib.al/ByI59I5

With fireworks on, off the field, Santa Teresa outlasts Live Oak in 84-point league-opener bonanza

Santa Teresa and Live Oak brought the pyrotechnics to the table in a prolific, explosive slugfest to open league play in Morgan Hill. The two teams combined to score 84 points.

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The Mercury News @mercurynews.com · 21d

San Jose Sharks to go without a captain as leadership group is unveiled trib.al/cc3nOZg

San Jose Sharks to go without a captain as leadership group is unveiled

SAN JOSE – The San Jose Sharks will go without a captain this season, announcing Wednesday that they will instead have five alternate captains for this year. The Sharks will have Tyler Toffoli, Ale…

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The Mercury News @mercurynews.com · 21d

San Jose: High-rise anchor restaurant Poppy & Claro sets opening date trib.al/OuQmqoI

San Jose: High-rise anchor restaurant Poppy & Claro sets opening date

Breakfast hours will start at 7:30 a.m., followed by an all-day menu

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randymac57.bsky.social @randymac57.bsky.social · 22d

Review of hyper-timely play at San Jose Stage Co. www.mercurynews.com/2025/10/06/r...

Review: ‘McNeal’ centers on a brilliant man who lives in an ethical vacuum

San Jose Stage’s new play deals with such timely themes as AI and theft of ideas.

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The Mercury News @mercurynews.com · 24d

Oak & Rye a winner at Star Chefs food and beverage pairing trib.al/o5t3May

Oak & Rye a winner at Star Chefs food and beverage pairing

Los Gatos restaurant named Chef’s Choice for second year running.

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The Mercury News @mercurynews.com · Sep 19

Oktoberfest 2025: Your Bay Area guide to beer, brats, oompah music trib.al/kKKKwI4

Oktoberfest 2025: Your Bay Area guide to beer, brats, oompah music

In Germany, the world’s largest Oktoberfest celebration will pack Munich’s beer halls from Sept. 20 through Oct. 5. But in the Bay Area, the celebrations go on for weeks, running right up to Hallow…

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The Mercury News @mercurynews.com · Sep 16

Montalvo hosts 20th annual food and wine fundraiser at Saratoga villa trib.al/phcAbRr

Montalvo hosts 20th annual food and wine fundraiser at Saratoga villa

Club on Post is downtown San Jose’s hot new brunch spot.

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Grace Hase @gracehase.bsky.social · Sep 12

The special election for Prop. 50 is expected to cost the state $282.6 million — more than the 2021 gubernatorial recall election, according to a letter from the Department of Finance obtained by @mercurynews.com.
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Here’s how much the special election for California’s partisan redistricting measure will cost

Prop. 50 is expected to cost more than the 2021 gubernatorial recall election.

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Elizabeth Barcelos @barcelosknows.com · Sep 7

Come visit us today at @tordillosd3.bsky.social’s booth at the Watson Park hub of #VivaCalleSJ!

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Doug King in San Jose @dekgreen.bsky.social · Sep 6

Tomorrow is #VivaCalleSJ! Roughly 10 miles of streets across San Jose will be closed to cars. Organizers estimate ~150,000 participants.

Here’s the map, and vivacallesj.org has details on events across the network. 10am to 3pm Sunday.

LFG!

#dtsj #openstreets

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tordillosd3.bsky.social @tordillosd3.bsky.social · Sep 5

I’m proud that not only are we the safest big city in the country, but when you look at the data more granularly, we are in the top 10 best-performing cities across every metric measured. Considering the unique resource constraints facing our city, this is a big accomplishment.

Report: San Jose is safest large city in the U.S. - San José Spotlight

San Jose is being recognized as the nation’s safest major city, but officials say there’s still work to be done. A report by financial tech company Smart Asset has ranked San Jose safest out of the 50...

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tordillosd3.bsky.social @tordillosd3.bsky.social · Aug 30

Celebrating the unveiling of Romance by Danny Hanson was a great way to end the week! It brought together so many things that I love: queer joy, vibrant public spaces, & our community coming together to create something beautiful. I’ll take pride in my part of this creation every time I walk by. 🎨

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The Mercury News @mercurynews.com · Aug 30

Community clashes with Alum Rock school board over future of blighted, burned building trib.al/qhDid5f

Community clashes with Alum Rock school board over future of blighted, burned building

“This is your failure,” one resident told the board Saturday.

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Sal Pizarro @salpizarro.bsky.social · Aug 29

Somebody crashed their car into a building on Post Street in downtown San Jose last night, but it doesn't sound like that will interfere with the unveiling of the new street mural tonight at 6 p.m. as part of the kickoff of Silicon Valley Pride this weekend. www.mercurynews.com/2025/08/28/s...

Street mural unveiling kicks off SV Pride weekend in downtown San Jose

Artist Danny Feliz Hanson says the huge project in the city’s LGBTQ district was a dream come true.

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