Bay Area/ San Jose/ Community & Society
Published on June 15, 2020
Top San Jose news: BART debuts new stations; unions seek to root out racist cops; morePhoto: TopRank Online Marketing/Flickr

Here's what you need to know about what's happening in San Jose.

Hundreds of protesters decrying police brutality stage sit-in at San Jose mayor’s house

A group of activists placed 17 crosses, each with the name of someone killed by San Jose cops, on the sidewalk outside Sam Liccardo's home.

Read the full story on San Jose Inside.

South Bay nail salons struggle amid shutdown, despite new state order 

When Tina Le first arrived in America in 2003, she took up doing nails as a part-time job. Two years later, she opened a shop in San Jose that she adoringly calls her "second child." "I love my job, and I'm very proud of my work," Le said in an interview. 

Read the full story on San Jose Spotlight.

BART debuts new stations in San Jose, Milpitas

More than a dozen elected officials in the South Bay participated in the maiden voyage Friday between BART's two new stations in Milpitas and northern San Jose's Berryessa neighborhood.

Read the full story on Danville San Ramon.

Bay Area police unions put out plan to 'root out' racist cops

Police unions from San Francisco, San Jose and Los Angeles are unveiling a reform agenda to find racist officers among their ranks and "root those individuals out of the law enforcement profession," according to a statement released early Sunday morning. 

Read the full story on SFGATE.

San Jose-based Oaxacan restaurant Mezcal survived the Great Recession, struggles through COVID-19 

Adolfo Gomez and Mezcal survived one economic disaster — here’s how they might survive another.

Read the full story on Silicon Valley Business Journal.


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