Leaders of the Vietnamese community celebrate a tentative agreement to site a planned Thank You, America monument at the Vietnamese Heritage Garden at Kelley Park. The proposal by new San Jose City Council member Maya Esparza, in the red vest, was also backed by Santa Clara County Supervisors Dave Cortese, second from left, and Cindy...

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....

Supervisor Cindy Chavez: Change the World Supervisor Susan Ellenberg County of Santa Clara Supervisor Cindy Chavez, right. Hundreds of women and their allies gathered recently to bone up on what they’ll need to know as leaders to further efforts to curb domestic violence, protect workers from sexual assault, and advance other parts of the County’s...