Posts by Take Back San Jose

Santa Clara County leaders keep stacking “just a little more” onto the sales tax rate—now eyeing a countywide health-care tax atop SB 63’s potential 0.5% transit levy. With flat population and a county budget that’s tripled since 2012, residents are paying more for the same potholes and emptier buses & trains. Athan Joshi reports in…

Trump Media Begins Public Beta Testing AI Search Engine Perplexity Partners on Truth Social Search Function SARASOTA, Fla., Aug. 06, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Trump Media and Technology Group Corp. (Nasdaq, NYSE Texas: DJT) (“Trump Media” or the “Company”), operator of the social media platform Truth Social, the streaming platform Truth+, and the FinTech brand…

For all the hundreds of millions the struggling transit agency will spend on a better control system, it refuses to automate away the costly jobs of train operators. So says Gregg Dieguez, writing for the SHIFT Bay Area Substack, in which he calls out transit worker unions for pressuring BART’s directly-elected board members to prioritize…

Image by Daniel L. Lu (user:dllu), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons While SJ and Santa Clara county officials stretch credulity in efforts to explain away increases in area homelessness counts, our Southland neighbors are actually delivering real improvement. Overall # of homelessness is down in LA and % in shelters is improving more quickly than…

Image by David Rumsey, CC BY-SA 3., via Wikimedia Commons All 11 Supervisors stressed, three months ago, that SF shouldn’t pack shelters, clinics, and other services into just a few neighborhoods. Actually doing something about it is a different story. The exceptional Frisc reports Rejected six years ago, a City Hall effort to make each…

Here’s what you need to know this week — in 30 seconds or less: Keep scrolling for all the data and details. Dear Neighbor, When I ran for Mayor, I argued that making City Hall work requires embracing new tools and methods. AI has rapidly emerged as one of the most powerful tools available and…

Dear friends, We’ve just hit the 100-day mark of Steve’s campaign for governor, and the momentum is REAL.Californians across the state are stepping up to support our energetic, positive campaign. With your help, Steve is now leading the race and offering an end to 15 years of one-party control. Here’s what we’ve accomplished together in…

Image by Edward Kimmel, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons County and SJ City homelessness rates are rising. The majority of our homeless neighbors are unsheltered. Yet local officials, says SV GOP chair David Johnson, refuse to respond in a businesslike manner to the scope of the crisis. From svgop.com. After tens of millions of…

A dark horse candidate in the San Jose District 3 special election eked out a second place finish in April. Then he trounced his opponent in the June runoff for the City Council seat. San Jose Planning Commission Chair Anthony Tordillos was able to pull voters from all of the candidates who lost in the April 8…

Red Hook Housing Project, Brooklyn, New York. General view III by itoldya420 As free marketeers, the Opp Now team tends to look askance at public housing schemes. However, the left-leaning Mission Local website in SF does a literate and intelligent job of making the pitch in favor of better public housing management, so we respectfully…