https://youtu.be/l_jEoOvvPeU It was a cold, rainy Saturday morning, but that didn’t stop nearly 400 enthusiastic and energetic high school girls and their mothers from gathering in East San Jose on March 9 to learn from their peers and to hear from policymakers. The seventh annual Strong Girls, Strong Women Conference was organized by the County...

‘Urgent priority’: E-cigarettes erode decades of effort Public health officials have spent millions of dollars over many decades trying to curb tobacco use, much of it designed to discourage kids from ever taking up the nicotine habit. After all, quitting is great, but never starting is even better. In Santa Clara County, as elsewhere, these...

Simitian: 94 percent insured, but ‘let’s keep pushing’ The County of Santa Clara, with its $7 billion budget, funds countless programs through dozens of departments and agencies. Boil it all down, though, and the County has pretty much one job: promoting the health well-being of its nearly 2 million residents. That’s why board President Joe...

Vietnamese-American Service Center’s design packed with meaning Hundreds of people gathered recently in the Board of Supervisors Chamber to revel in an engaging architectural presentation of what will one day open as the Vietnamese-American Service Center. A range of culturally relevant health and human services will be available when the center opens in summer 2021....

County of Santa Clara Supervisor Cindy Chavez called this year's Women’s Leadership Policy Summit to provide women and their allies an opportunity to attend practical workshops and to network. The goal was to draw strength from one another and learn how they might further combine their talents for the betterment of women and families.

Clerk-Recorder’s civil marriage still popular The most popular service the County of Santa Clara’ Clerk-Recorder’s Office offers is marrying people at the County Government Center in San Jose. So Valentine’s Day is rather busy for the clerks who perform civil marriage. But it used to be more popular than it is now, says Louis Chiaramonte,...