February 19, 1994 By Yolanda Reynolds On Wednesday, February 16, Santa Clara County Board Supervisor Zoe Lofgren announced before an overflow gathering at her home in downtown San Jose that she was a candidate for the 16th Congressional District seat soon to be vacated by veteran Congressman Don Edwards. Supervisor Lofgren has many years of …
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February 9, 1994 By Yolanda Reynolds Kathy Chavez Napoli, a local businesswoman and community activist announced Monday morning that she would be a candidate for theSan Jose mayor position. Napoli, a long-time critic of City Hall says. “it is time to change public policy and return to (providing) the basic needs of the average tax …
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February 2, 1994 By Yolanda Reynolds Rigo Chacón,T.V. Newscaster and San Josean, surrounded by many supporters announced that he would not be a candidate for the 10th. U.S. Congressional District. Chacón explained that his decision to quickly withdraw from the race were family concerns. His mother and father, Rigo said, are elderly, and he said …
January 4, 1994 By Yolanda Reynolds Last week, La Oferta Review took a major step forward when its presses rolled out last week’s issue of the paper. La Oferta, in late November, moved from its location on Alum Rock Avenue to its own, larger offices at 1376 North Fourth Street. La Oferta now also has …
October 9, 1993 By Yolanda Reynolds Plaza Park in downtown San Jose has been renamed. The new name is plaza de César E. Chavez. It’s new name honors the nationally known labor leader, community organizer and farm worker advocate, Cesar E. Chavez from San Jose. He became a national figure for organizing farm laborers, first …
“HONOR A QUIEN HONOR MERECE” – PLAZA PARK RENAMED IN MEMORY OF CESAR CHAVEZ Read More »
November 20, 1991 By Yolanda Reynolds Sunday noon at Sacred Heart Church, a determined crowd of janitorial workers and their supporters met for a rally. The janitors have taken their struggle for justice in the workplace to the street and the general public after over a year and half of inaction from an unresponsive system. …
November 6, 1990 By Yolanda Reynolds The Historic Arts Advisory Committee (HAAC) voted Wednesday evening, October 24, to place the Thomas Fallon statue at Pellier Park. It is not slated to unveiled until 1995. At that meeting, discussions generally followed the format of the previous meetings. The chairman of the committee, Alex Smart. spent some …
September 12, 1990 By Yolanda Reynolds The San Jose Mercury News, the only daily newspaper in Santa Clara County and one of the largest in the Bay Area hires few Latino writers. The news last week of Nora Villagran’s reassignment (to a position normally held by junior writers or on occasion clerical staff) has created …
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September 5, 1990 By Yolanda Reynolds Last week the Historic’ Arts advisory Committee meeting brought together a number of historians from throughout the Bay Area whose specialty is early day California history. Most of the historians who spoke before the committee at that meeting felt that Fallon’s raising of the American flag was not really …
H.A.A.C. to determine Fallon statue fate tonight Read More »
August 29, 1990 By Yolanda Reynolds The San Jose Evergreen community College District announced last Wednesday that one of its colleges, San Jose City had been selected to receive a 2.5 million dollar federally funded Title III Grant, to be awarded over a five year period. The grant monies were made available to help institutions …
ADELANTE PROGRAM TO BEGIN AT SAN JOSE CITY COLLEGE Read More »