Posts by Take Back San Jose

Image by Hildgrim Santa Cruz County finds homeless encampment ground zero for stolen e-bikes. Santa Cruz Sentinel and KSBW report. Santa Cruz Sentinel: More than $30,000 worth of high-end electric bicycles were discovered by law enforcement this week at an illegal encampment near Arana Gulch in Live Oak. The Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office is…

A collection of SJ’s far-left advocacy groups protested outside the family home of Mayor Mahan last weekend—complaining about the Mayor’s homelessness programs. The groups’ promotional flyer included violent imagery (crossing out Mahan’s eyes—invoking a comic book convention to indicate someone’s dead), and a parade of misinformed howlers that we fact check, below. An Opp Now…

City prosecutors have launched a criminal investigation into the nonprofit San Francisco Parks Alliance, a prominent fundraiser for the city’s open spaces that admitted recently to misspending at least $3.8 million. The Chron reports. An investigator with the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office contacted at least two people with ties to the Parks Alliance after the…

Dear Neighbor, ike every Sunday, I’m spending the morning with my kids—but today is extra special. We’re making breakfast together to surprise Silvia for Mother’s Day. And this morning, I realized something: Nina and Luke are almost old enough to make me the sous chef!   I hope all the moms reading this feel loved…

Opp Now’s co-founder Christopher Escher joined the South County Business Alliance’s May lunch with a simple word of advice for local business: when media is slanted against you, grab the bullhorn. An Opp Now exclusive. My thesis for you over the next ten minutes is this: The media landscape in Silicon Valley—and by that I…

Image by Austin Cross Financial expert and recently retired BART Director Debora Allen explains that increased ridership can’t save the agency’s budget if its expenses continue skyrocketing year to year. (Here’s a two-word hint: Labor overtime.) From the SF Briones Society podcast. Debora Allen: The rider experience was awful [in 2017, when I was first…

Violent Crime per Capita in San Jose. Image by CrimeGrade.org. City gets a C- grade on violent and property crime, though it scores better on other types of crimes. Geographic inequities abound. Crimegrade.org reports. The C- grade indicates that the rate of violent crime is slightly higher than that of the average US city. San…

Friend, We recently wrapped up one of Turning Point USA’s latest stops on the American Comeback Tour at UC San Diego… I wish you could have been there to see it. Another packed quad. Students eager to listen. Flags waving. Cheers for America. Energy you could feel in your bones. Not in Texas… Not in…

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Image by Thomas Hawk Pirate Wires’s Dean W. Ball predicts a wave of free market-ification in local jurisdictions like San Jose, when it comes to firefighting, education, and—yes—even police. California is not unique among American cities and states, many of which exhibit similar problems. But it does exhibit them more dramatically than anywhere else in…