Bay Area employers slashed thousands of jobs in July, an unsettling economic setback that suggests the waves of layoffs in the wobbly tech industry have begun to undermine the region’s employment sector. Last month’s job losses in the Bay Area were spawned by big employment reductions in the South Bay and the San Francisco metro … Read more
SAN JOSE — A grand jury has scorched a Santa Clara County housing agency for blunders in its attempts to wheel and deal on a San Jose office building that became a money-losing odyssey of lost opportunities. “Flawed information, flawed decisions” is the title of a new civil grand jury report on the county Housing … Read more
SAN JOSE — A San Jose councilmember has embarked on a quest to tackle what appears to be a worsening affliction of blight and decaying buildings in the Bay Area’s largest city. The burned-out second floor of the Lawrence Hotel, a historic building at 79 East San Fernando Street in downtown San Jose, as seen … Read more
