– Colorado forward Jayson Megna notched two goals and an assist while goaltender Trent Miner made 25 saves on 28 shots as the Eagles defeated the San Jose Barracuda 6-3 in Game One of their Pacific Division Semifinal Series Four different Eagles finished the night with multi-point performances with five different Colorado skaters finding the back of the net The Eagles dominated the battle on specialty teams finishing 2-for-3 on the power play and 3-for-3 on the penalty kill After shutting down the game’s first power play Colorado would go on to net the game’s first goal A bit of transition set up Megna to dish the puck to the slot where defenseman Calle Rosen hammered it home giving the Eagles a 1-0 edge with 3:44 remaining in the first period The Barracuda would go on to outshoot Colorado 12-6 in the opening 20 minutes but the Eagles would head to the first intermission still leading A power play early in the second period would allow Colorado forward Chris Wagner to slice to the top of the crease before deflecting a shot from the point into the back of the net putting the Eagles up 2-0 at the 3:02 mark Another opportunity on the man-advantage would lead to another goal as Megna swatted a rebound in the crease past goalie Yaroslav Askarov extending Colorado’s advantage to 3-0 with 12:41 still to play in the middle frame San Jose would then flip the script on the penalty kill as forward Filip Bystedt capped off a shorthanded breakaway with a wrister from the slot trimming the deficit to 3-1 at the 8:25 mark of the second stanza A delayed penalty against the Barracuda would allow Eagles defenseman John Ludvig an opportunity to light the lamp with a shot from the top of the right-wing circle giving Colorado a 4-1 lead with 2:05 remaining in the period Still trailing 4-1 as the puck dropped on the third period San Jose would inch back when forward Collin Graf buried a shot from the right-wing corner slicing the Eagles advantage to 4-2 at the 13:16 mark With Askarov on the bench in favor of the extra attacker Barracuda forward Collin White would capitalize when he beat Miner from the slot with a wrister pulling the score to 4-3 with 2:19 still left to play Askarov would again head to the bench to bring out an additional attacker but it would be Colorado who would take advantage with an empty-netter from Megna at the 18:29 mark and fellow forward Tye Felhaber just 1:01 later The Eagles will be back in action when they take on the San Jose Barracuda in Game Two of the Pacific Division Semifinals on Sunday May 4th at 7:05pm MT at Tech CU Arena in San Jose Playoff tickets are on sale now and can be purchased at ColoradoEagles.com or by calling or texting the Eagles ticket office at (970) 686-SHOT Get San José Spotlight headlines delivered to your inbox chaos and confusion reigned with directors unable to decide on an approach to a proposed transit tax measure The VTA board heard a presentation on Senate Bill 63, which would create a sales tax district to support transit across the Bay Area boardmembers couldn’t agree on whether to support the measure or county-specific approach The discussion was further upended when VTA management informed the board they should provide their stance in a letter to the bill’s authors at the meeting “I don’t think we’re in a position to take a vote tonight,” Vice Chair and San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan said “We don’t want to give up leverage prematurely let’s not rush to get to a position of support Let’s continue to have the conversation and see how it plays out.” VTA director and Santa Clara County Supervisor Sylvia Arenas was  uncomfortable given such short notice and for us to continue to move ahead but not move ahead is not forthcoming to the whole board,” Arenas said “If that was what the item was supposed to be then we should have clearly labeled it as such.” The board agreed to postpone the letter for further discussion at its June 5 meeting and is making its way through various Senate committees The bill would allow for either transit agencies or voter initiatives to put a sales tax on the November 2026 ballot It also lists four Bay Area transit agencies as possible recipients Agency employees said at the April 25 meeting the tax could help VTA pay funding obligations to Caltrain a half-cent sales tax approved by voters in 2000 The measure is expected to generate more than $290 million in fiscal year 2025 400 about the regional measure and 400 about a county-specific measure The results showed a 57% approval rate for either measure VTA General Manager Carolyn Gonot said the agency plans to send a letter to Wiener and Arreguin’s offices explaining the board’s position and expectations before they consider opting into the tax district In addition to financial obligations for Caltrain boardmembers want to ensure that VTA receives enough revenue to improve its own transit services VTA director and Sunnyvale Councilmember Linda Sell said she would prefer VTA pursue both options with the half-cent regional measure paying off the Caltrain obligation and another measure in two years that supports VTA’s projects and operations “I want our money in our control,” Sell said at the meeting Monica Mallon, a public transit advocate and San José Spotlight columnist said she wants to see VTA board members take local riders into consideration when weighing the possible measures “The thing the board needs to consider the most is VTA’s own interest,” Mallon told San José Spotlight. “VTA has clearly shown that they’re able to recover and grow ridership and I think that really shows that riders would benefit from more service and this is a growing market.” VTA could choose to opt into a regional tax measure and still pursue a county-specific measure Mallon said it might be harder to meet the 66.7% voter approval threshold on any tax measure “I think that the board has been really taking the right approach here and considering things carefully I would just caution them to not act too quickly and rush things,” Mallon said former Sunnyvale mayor and a former VTA board member said he was skeptical Santa Clara County residents would receive as much benefit if they were opted into a regional measure He said VTA should pursue a specific in-county measure to ensure the money generated supports Silicon Valley transit rather than subsidizing transit in other parts of the Bay Area “Those other counties can do whatever they want I just don’t think it’s in Santa Clara County voters’ best interest to participate in that,” Hendricks told San José Spotlight Original story published May 1 at 8:30 a.m Editor’s Note: A previous version of the story provided Measure A revenue generated for operations instead of total revenue in fiscal year 2025 Contact B. Sakura Cannestra at [email protected] or @SakuCannestra on X Join our mailing list to receive the latest news and updates from our team Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_2" ).setAttribute( "value" This issue is bad news for our Minority Small Businesses Look at the Little Portugal area and what VTA has planned There is little hope for our Small Businesses because a lot of our Businesses are Family Owned The issues are the stories about RIDERSHIP ACTUALLY SUPPORTING BUSINESSES IN THE B.A.R.T Not after the tricks they pulled on the East Valley Community at the Ocala Station kerfuffle…. While telling the Community that – if they support the current project of the Capitol Light Rail deal – We would get a shuttle system for our residents to help the Community get out of Vehicles and into MICRO-TRANSIT in District 5 [THAT IS THE WHOLE POINT OF THE EASTRIDGE TO B.A.R.T [[VTA AND THE CITY OF SAN JOSE MADE THIS PROMISE WITHOUT HAVING ANY FUNDING FOR THE PROJECT FROM THE START.]] VTA AND THE CITY KNEW THAT THERE WAS NO FUNDING THEY DID NOT FULLY EXPLAIN THAT FACT TO THE COMMUNITY EVEN THOUGH THEY HAD THE NUMBERS IN THEIR HANDS THAT IS WHY I OPPOSED ANY NEW FUNDING FOR B.A.R.T. AND I WILL CONTINUE ON THAT ROAD OF OPPOSITION UNTIL VTA COMES TO THE COMMUNITY WITH SHUTTLES AND MICRO-TRANSIT FOR THE EAST VALLEY RESIDENTS “I WILL NOT VOTE FOR VTA FUNDING ON ANY PROJECT FOR ANY REASON.” Thank you for taking the time to write this As predicted (now that we are in a deficit) there will be many ballot measures for tax increases (especially using sympathetic causes) The downtown areas were also promised there would be no additional adverse effects if they supported the light rail and now they are the scapegoats for high density housing with high-rise buildings (urban villages) even in residential neighborhoods So ironic that VTA wants billions from everyone else to build an insanely deep tunnel But when VTA is asked to support a regional transit measure they say they refuse saying they “just want our money to stay here” anything that would go towards the pockets of these con crooks F all them from the top goon down to the local leaders with a .gov email Yes the bus is almost empty and yes it does make sense to cut down on the number of buses But VTA does not because people get very angry when they have to wait more than 10 minutes for a bus Demanding Tokyo metro bus frequency for a bus that will only board 5 people in an hour The VTA bus is so inefficient that anyone who actually needs to be somewhere does not ride it It takes so much knowledge and learning to understand the system and which buses a person needs and in which direction Many of the VTA drivers dont even know how to inform a passenger how to get from A to B because the system is so extensive and confusing You must be logged in to post a comment San José Spotlight is an award-winning nonprofit newsroom dedicated to fearless journalism that disrupts the status quo holds power to account and paves the way for change We’re changing the face of local journalism by building a community-supported newsroom that ignites civic engagement educates residents and strengthens our democracy 408.206.5327[email protected] Submit a News TipSubscribe to our newsletters San José Spotlight is a project of the San José News Bureau a 501(c)(3) charitable organization | Tax ID: 82-5355128 ' + scriptOptions._localizedStrings.webview_notification_text + ' " + scriptOptions._localizedStrings.redirect_overlay_title + " " + scriptOptions._localizedStrings.redirect_overlay_text + " KQED Live EventsPRX Podcast Garage EventsEvents Around the Bay AreaMember Benefits with KQED LiveVideos from KQED LiveWatch recordings of recent KQED Live events FeaturedThat's My WordAn ongoing exploration of Bay Area hip-hop history See Senior Director of TV Programming Meredith Speight’s recommendations from this month’s KQED 9 Watch recordings of recent KQED Live events Support KQED by using your donor-advised fund to make a charitable gift is held up during the Vietnamese American Roundtable's Black April event commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Fall of Saigon in San José 2025. (KQED/Joseph Geha)Wednesday marked 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War an estimated 120,000 Vietnamese refugees fled to communities all over the U.S it’s hard to imagine San José without the Vietnamese American community Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild American Federation of Television and Radio Artists Joseph Geha [00:01:25] The whole identity of San Jose is very much influenced by the Vietnamese American community at this point Ericka Cruz Guevarra [00:01:34] Joseph Geha is a South Bay reporter for KQED Joseph Geha [00:01:41] San Jose has become one of the main loci of Vietnamese-Americans in the country Census five-year American Community Survey data we’re looking at about 122,000 people in San Jose proper that identify as Vietnamese-American or of Vietnamese descent And within the Santa Clara County as a whole Ericka Cruz Guevarra [00:02:08] As you’ve just been talking about And Wednesday marked 50 years since the fall of Saigon How did that moment begin to lay the groundwork for the community that exists in the South Bay now You had an initial drawdown of American troops happening already in Vietnam in the years before 1975 through the Paris Peace Accords that was the last American military presence to be removed out of Vietnam or being pulled out of Vietnam Joseph Geha [00:02:54] And that is when Northern Vietnamese communist forces took Saigon and that kind of represented the formal ending of the war but at least 130,000 some odd Vietnamese refugees who were concerned that their anti-communist sentiments and work potentially with U.S put into like a reeducation camp by the communist forces if they were to stay were able to get airlifted out of Vietnam right at the fall of Saigon or shortly thereafter They were often put at different military bases in the Southern Pacific and different island nations where the US had military bases and then eventually transferred to America and dispersed there Santa Clara County was one of the first places to kind of establish at the county level a formal refugee resettlement program Ericka Cruz Guevarra [00:03:58] And one of the families who arrived to Santa Clara County under this resettlement program was the family of Betty Duong the first Vietnamese American county supervisor in Santa Clara What is her family’s immigration story she is the first Vietnamese-American supervisor in Santa Clara County She was just elected in last year’s election I felt that she has a very good perspective to share with people because she grew up in San Jose and because she has a daughter that she’s raising in San José Betty Duong [00:04:37] I feel a huge sense of pride that our families are so much part of the fabric of this community Joseph Geha [00:04:49] So her parents had recently been married just a couple years after the fall of Saigon And her mother at the time was only 22 years old Betty Duong [00:05:04] They left in the middle of the night Joseph Geha [00:05:12] And just nearby on like another boat Betty Duong [00:05:19] And she saw the boat that her brother was on be taken by pirates for years she didn’t know what happened to her brother Joseph Geha [00:05:31] He ended up surviving but her family didn’t know that until years later Betty Duong [00:05:37] On day three or four It’s now just floating on the open seas Joseph Geha [00:05:45] A container ship picks up the people on that boat with Betty Duong’s parents and takes them to an island nation before they are resettled in the U.S where Betty Duong was born a short time later Ericka Cruz Guevarra [00:06:04] So Santa Clara County is one of the few places to open its doors to refugees like Betty Duong’s family Where does she grow up and did her family feel welcomed where they were Joseph Geha [00:06:19] Betty Duong grew up in and around downtown San Jose She said she lived in section eight housing for a time right across from San Jose State University And she kind of believed as a young girl that the whole world looked like the five block radius around her apartment With lots of Vietnamese and Latino families living side by side Betty Duong [00:06:40] The door was always left open because no one had air conditioning Vietnamese music was blasting like from 7 a.m In the morning throughout the whole weekend and that’s where we grew up relying on county services Joseph Geha [00:06:55] But as far as feeling welcome her family experienced a lot of racism and a lot of bigotry here it was very normal for someone to shout at us on the street Joseph Geha [00:07:09] People were berating them for not knowing English at medical appointments or even out in public and at restaurants Betty Duong [00:07:19] It just kind of always made you feel like your identity was under attack or that your family was under attack Joseph Geha [00:07:26] Certainly there was a mixed feeling about refugees here even in Santa Clara County and her parents experienced that firsthand what was the political context in the US at this time especially around immigrants and immigration and its residents were very divided about the war in Vietnam Whether it was a good or bad war to be fighting is a very simple way of saying it whether or not we needed to be there or should have been there And also very divided over whether to accept refugees you had President Richard Nixon leaving office over the Watergate scandal And all of this is kind of laid on top of this background of skyrocketing on unemployment and inflation and kind of an economic crisis So it was a very fraught time when Vietnamese refugees started arriving in waves to America Professor Hien Duc Do [00:08:34]  Vietnamese refugees came at a time when it was pretty contradictory or conflicting Joseph Geha [00:08:41] I also spoke to Professor Hien Duc Do and he’s a professor of sociology and Asian-American studies at San Jose State University He’s essentially saying that these refugees were arriving at a time that was very difficult for Americans already And the question of whether to accept refugees from this very controversial war effort that America had gotten itself involved in was a tough one Professor Hien Duc Do [00:09:09] A lot of them came literally without anything but the clothes on their backs and you know as a young teenager it’s very it was very uncertain times right it’s just as it was for a lot of people how does Betty Duong describe life as a child of refugees growing up in San Jose and Santa Clara County Joseph Geha [00:09:35] She has a lot of gratitude for the county welcoming her family and others like her family here but there were a lot challenges for her family The county services that her family relied on they weren’t always implemented in a very culturally appropriate way or they were implemented in ways that just didn’t really understand or consider the daily realities for people like her parents Betty Duong [00:10:01] It always kind of felt short and it always added like a sense of chaos It seemed like it was always someone else’s decision Joseph Geha [00:10:15] People like her family and others who live nearby receive food assistance boxes from food banks in the county and a lot of times it would include a large block or several rations of what’s known as government cheese Betty Duong [00:10:28] People lovingly reference government cheese But for a population that’s like 90% lactose intolerant Joseph Geha [00:10:39] Also things like health care Her mother and father needed health care appointments like everybody else and sometimes she’d have to go with her mom to these medical appointments or consultations and they’re spread out around the city so she’d be taking several different bus trips around different parts of the city or the county to get from one appointment to the next So there just wasn’t this consideration of how difficult that might be for somebody without a lot of money or resources or a daily car to use Ericka Cruz Guevarra [00:11:05] And she’s joining them because as a child she’s also translating for her parents Which as I know is a very common experience for many children of immigrants in the US And Betty Duong was learning English at the same time as her parents She was growing up in public schools in San Jose and learning English but she had also learned Vietnamese at home So English was technically a second language for her Betty Duong [00:11:33] Neighbors would come over with their kids’ enrollment papers Or new prospective tenants were coming to try to rent an apartment Joseph Geha [00:11:50] And she even talked about serious situations like if the police showed up on her block and needed to talk to somebody in her apartment building she might have to translate through a police officer she reflects on now is something that no child should ever have to go through Betty Duong [00:12:05] There’s many little memories of just good policy but it just kind of fell short because it didn’t take into account what is it that folks were really challenged with And I felt that really defined my childhood Betty Duong is really picking up on all the ways that the systems in place were sort of failing Vietnamese refugees like our family And then I feel like this knowledge and this feeling really comes to a head in the summer of 2003 there was a fatal police shooting of a young Vietnamese-American woman and she had struggled with her mental health And she was fatally shot by San Jose police officer Chad Marshall police got called out by a neighbor who was worried about a domestic issue at the apartment complex there where Ms they found her in the kitchen and she was holding a Vietnamese style vegetable peeler which the officer would later say he thought was a large knife and he thought Betty Duong [00:13:53] When the story first broke we were hearing on TV that this woman attacked the officer with a butcher knife And then when we saw there was the same vegetable peeler that’s in every single Asian household It was just some really heartbreaking that this woman she was killed by a police officer in front of her children Joseph Geha [00:14:20] So this shooting happened in July of 2003 Betty Duong said she was at community college at the time the moment I asked her about this woman in this shooting she said it was a defining moment for her in her life and in the community Betty Duong [00:14:44] One of the rare times that my very Republican And this is where he and I really agreed that significant missteps really motivated the community to organize Joseph Geha [00:15:17] We had spoken to Tam Nguyen He’s a former city council member who was elected in 2014 He’s also an attorney and a community advocate And he essentially told us that this was a wake-up call Tam Nguyen [00:15:30] We need to get our act together and then resource and benefit come through your votes Ericka Cruz Guevarra [00:15:42] What are some of the things that the Vietnamese American community really pushes for and also wins in the years since the shooting in 2003 Joseph Geha [00:15:51] There were desires for more cultural sensitivity training for police officers and language training To avoid this horrible outcome from happening again in the years following that and since then there have been bigger asks for continued increases in representation for language access across a series of services and programs but at the city level for small business programs who would be the very first person elected to San Jose City Council of this community As many immigrant and refugee communities in the South Bay have also advocated for the Vietnamese-American community also wanted to see more opportunities for business owners to get a piece of the pie in the South Bay San Jose’s a large city with a big budget And we’ve heard from people like Tam Nguyen and others that there still isn’t really enough representation of business owners getting contracts in San Jose and the South Bay Ericka Cruz Guevarra [00:17:01] So it sounds like this is like the beginning of not just the sort of existence of Vietnamese Americans in the South Bay but really like the integration of them into the fabric of the community as business owners as people who are politically active and engaged for working continually as so many people in the South Bay are to erase the structures of the past that have put communities of color lower in the rankings for a variety of services Ericka Cruz Guevarra [00:17:39] And of course because Wednesday was the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and I feel like so much of this story is about how this moment in time has really shaped San Jose as we know it today how is the community reflecting on this moment Joseph Geha [00:18:05] When I spoke with Betty Duong about this it’s essentially a day of national mourning Betty Duong [00:18:14] When I talk to my elders they say it’s the day we lost our country Joseph Geha [00:18:21] But for people of her generation they’re still very connected to their parents’ stories and to that first generation’s stories But as second-generation people here in the county and in the city of San Jose they are working to kind of create a new and better future here in the South Bay how to raise their kids and what to teach them and what emphasize and what kind of hold back on So that the traumas of the past are a lesson that will be learned and absorbed so that they don’t affect too harshly the path of these future generations Ericka Cruz Guevarra [00:19:08] Well Joseph thank you so much for sharing your reporting with us Joseph Geha [00:19:13] Thank you for having me To learn more about how we use your information, please read our privacy policy. This is the first playoff series victory for the Barracuda since 2017 The Barracuda will face the Colorado Eagles in the Division Semifinals. Game dates are yet to be determined but San Jose will host games in the series at Tech CU Arena that’s a lively locker room in there they should be really proud of themselves,” said San Jose Head Coach John McCarthy “Cards used his speed that he’s always had sort of drew two guys to him and made a nice centering pass,” said Graf Barracuda Goaltender Yaroslav Askarov stopped 29 of 30 Ontario shots for his second postseason victory of the year including negating several high-danger chances as the Reign made a heavy push in the third period I thought he won the game for us,” said McCarthy For highlights of Game 2, B-roll footage, and other related Barracuda video footage, interviews, and recordings, please click here “It was gritty for us because we went down a couple of guys there “Being really active on the bench and making sure that we’re all dialed in into who is going on “I just found a lane to the net and (White) got the puck to me and I just put it in the net,” said Vincent there’s momentum swings and you just want to do your best on the bench as a team to not get too excited or too down on each other,” said Vincent “I thought we handled their push and pushed back and we did a great job with that.” we found a way in the third period,” added McCarthy “We give them that goal but everybody came together overcame the obstacle and it was fun to watch.” BOX SCORE San Jose Barracuda website several college football programs have recently opted out of a spring game due to injuries or other issues with the current landscape of the sport San Jose State continued their tradition of hosting a spring game in 2025 consisting of practice drills followed by drives between the offense and defense the Spartans hosted their spring football game giving fans a bit of an insight as to what they are in for with another seasons of SJSU football Here are some takeaways from the spring game: Eget led the opening drive for the Spartans and it seemed like the offense was flying under his leadership they looked like solid passes that receivers couldn’t hold onto In a college football world where returning starting quarterbacks don’t come around often having a more experienced Eget will be big for the Spartans this upcoming season Although Eget has clearly looked like the quarterback of the now Amisone will surely be the quarterback of the future HI was a three-star prospect in high school (247Sports) and is ready to be a star as he ran for a 60-yard touchdown on the ground while also throwing strong deep passes through the air Head Coach Ken Niumatalolo will likely use him on the ground as a Freshman before likely allowing him to start once Eget graduates With star tight end Jacob Stewart entering the portal and transferring to Louisville there was expected to be a glaring hole in his absence UCLA transfer Grant Norberg has stepped up throughout the spring and could be an important piece for next season he hit two field goals and three extra points San Jose State could have a phenomenal season where they could compete for their first conference title in five years The spring game was a great indicator of the potential that this team has and Niumatalolo's secndond football season at SJSU can’t come soon enough The content on this site is for entertainment and educational purposes only Betting and gambling content is intended for individuals 21+ and is based on individual commentators' opinions and not that of Sports Illustrated or its affiliates All picks and predictions are suggestions only and not a guarantee of success or profit If you or someone you know has a gambling problem crisis counseling and referral services can be accessed by calling 1-800-GAMBLER Eric Diec calls every customer who walks through the doors of Chef Li a friend He bustles around the small Chinese restaurant in West San Jose carrying pots of colorful orchids and steaming plates of garlicky string beans family-owned restaurants in Camden Park plaza — and after 28 years in business Diec got the news last fall that Redtree Partners which has managed the plaza for about two years wouldn’t renew his lease even after he offered to pay more rent He said the management company gave him no reason for the decision but he suspects it’s because it wants to fill the plaza with more franchise restaurants to attract young people Chains such as Paris Baguette and Posh Bagel are set to open in the plaza soon near the existing Chipotle Diec said he wanted to run Chef Li for at least another five years before retiring adding it feels like he’s losing part of himself and he can’t afford to open a new location elsewhere to continue his passion I never thought in my life that they (would) not renew my lease,” he told San José Spotlight A Redtree Partners representative said the company has had a long but can’t comment on their lease or future tenants started Chef Li with his partner Lawrence Li in 1997 after running a restaurant in Saratoga for 10 years He began selling the magenta orchids lining the restaurant’s tables soon after trying to serve customers when they were 4- and 5-years-old Most of Chef Li’s employees have been there since the beginning She’s sad the restaurant is closing after its decadeslong run “(It’s) like a family for all the people and the customers here,” Wang told San José Spotlight The restaurant offers a variety of Chinese dishes from sesame chicken fried in a light batter and coated in garlic sauce to pineapple basil fried rice with prawns and chicken Chef Li’s delicacies have built a loyal customer base that goes out of its way to help Diec including fundraising to replace glass after the restaurant was broken into Customer Daniel Garcia has been going to the restaurant every Friday for six years he’s spent four hours eating and chatting with Diec and his workers He orders the mu shu pork marinated in plum sauce and wrapped in spring pancakes Garcia said he doesn’t know where he’ll grab dinner Fridays after Chef Li closes “How can the management just have that power to destroy a restaurant that the community loves?” he told San José Spotlight “We have to leave, (that’s) the saddest thing,” Diec said. “But overall, the customers are very nice here, very loyal and they (kept) me surviving during the pandemic … From the bottom of my heart Contact Annalise Freimarck at [email protected] or follow @annalise_ellen on X Thank you for everything you’ve done for your community A lot of the people who come to a place like Santana Row (Cambrian Plaza wants to be SR 2.0) are the same kind of people who are all over something hot and new and then lose interest for the next big thing The reasons I used to go to the Pruneyard all the time because it’s close to my house pretty much dried up and I don’t go anymore except for Sports Basement and leave Kicking out tried and tested local flavor for some chain flavor of the month chain says to me that the managers of this overhaul aren’t interested in the local area neighbors and are chasing a fickle trendy audience instead the people who already frequent the area despite construction Independent family restaurants are part of our cultural landscape in a way that they are unique in contrast to chains You must be logged in to post a comment 408.206.5327[email protected] A recent report ranks Silicon Valley among the slowest growing retail markets though experts say there’s hope for the region’s economic future A report compiled by banner company Printastic compared retail growth for the nation’s 50 largest metropolitan areas The report lists the San Jose metropolitan area as No 45 and found there’s been a nearly 3% decline in retail businesses established in the region from 2020 to 2024 The San Jose metropolitan area includes Santa Clara and San Benito counties Experts say the environment for small businesses is dire with a lack of accessible housing shrinking the possible workforce and changing economic conditions making it more difficult for businesses to gain footing Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce CEO Harbir Bhatia said these factors are weighing on small businesses nationwide, though some are especially prominent locally — such as the region’s housing crisis pushes low-income residents out and shrinks the workforce “We don’t see any kind of relief for housing prices to be coming down so if you’re actually looking at the macro problem Silicon Valley is in a really difficult situation,” Bhatia told San José Spotlight Consumer attitudes are also making it more difficult for retailers to stay afloat in Silicon Valley executive director of the Silicon Valley Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and director of the Northern California Access Small Business Development Center said he isn’t surprised to see the region ranked so low in the report He said small businesses and retail outlets suffered tremendous losses during the COVID-19 pandemic and have been slow to recover “Silicon Valley is known to celebrate its entrepreneurship it’s known throughout the world for its entrepreneurship,” King told San José Spotlight “So why are we so far behind so many of the significant areas in the U.S He said part of that loss came from consumers moving to shop online. Other forms of retail have been taking hold, however, such as pop-up shops or microbusinesses He’s seen an increase in pop-up retailers in San Jose and suggested it may become permanent as time goes on King said San Jose specifically doesn’t support small businesses as much as it did a decade ago citing a small business incubator program cut in 2011 He added that more city support would help foster growth San Jose officials say the city has seen a stronger recovery from the pandemic than the report suggests. Victor Farlie, assistant to the city manager for small business, pointed to a variety of other markers indicating San Jose is doing well. That includes a 6% retail vacancy rate — a marked reduction from the flood of vacant downtown storefronts in 2023 Farlie said the city’s hit a record amount of sales tax from restaurants “The emphasis on business retention leads to attracting more business so the city’s focus is heavily on retention,” Farlie told San José Spotlight San Jose is such a diverse community that businesses want to be here.” Contact B. Sakura Cannestra at [email protected] or @SakuCannestra on X If we want to help out downtown SJ – get city workers back in City Hall 5 days per week That is basically how the once great 4th St Pizza was able to be downtown for so long And when they say we “need more housing.” Keep in mind it’s not just very large multi family with limited parking Retail does better in places like alm valley because many people want to live in less dense areas close to nice downtown strips I’ll wager that the top reason for this problem is ever-greedy landlords raising rents on businesses large and small I find it curious that this problem wasn’t mentioned in the article There’s certainly a lot of truth to that I know of several businesses that went out of business because they couldn’t continue to pay the rent Some locations have much higher-end businesses now such as the former Outback restaurant location on Blossom Hill while many other retail locations remain vacant after forcing the prior business out there will come a time when you won’t be able to get a smog check or car repair performed in the city simply because those businesses can’t compete due to the cost of rent It will be cheaper to tow your car to the Central Valley for repair than to try and have the work done locally as just one example “found there’s been a nearly 3% decline in retail businesses established in the region from 2020 to 2024” I remember when we were told that homelessness dropped by 3% also only to be corrected the next year to have increased by 20% Just driving around I’d say we lost 30% of our stores and restaurants since 2020 largely due to the ridiculous and harmful things we did in the name of covid “San Jose officials say the city has seen a stronger recovery from the pandemic than the report suggests.” sure and don’t believe your own eyes either Believe the people who publish the fake homelessness numbers instead You must be logged in to post a comment 408.206.5327[email protected] San José Spotlight is a project of the San José News Bureau, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization | Tax ID: 82-5355128. | All donations are tax-deductible Architecture and Landscape - This chapel, commissioned as a private space for prayer on a rural estate near the city of Tiradentes seeks to establish a profound yet subtle relationship between architecture and the surrounding landscape and wood define both the building and its furnishings Time - The design begins with the intention of creating a journey that elongates time and prepares visitors for a moment of contemplation. A strategic location was selected: a hill offering views of the rocky peaks of the mountain range to the north and the valley with the city of Tiradentes to the southwest. © Leonardo FinottiThe access path was designed to follow a single elevation level while winding around existing trees. The resulting cut through the terrain allows for a progressive detachment from the broader landscape, as the sky and tree canopies take center stage along the journey framed by walls. SketchWhile these axes are clearly defined, the interior offers an omnidirectional experience of the surrounding landscape, made possible by the separation of the roof from the stone walls. © Leonardo FinottiLight - Complementing the surrounding views, precise and perimeter openings allow sunlight—and moonlight reflections—to enter the chapel, enhancing the perception of nature's flows and rhythms. Simultaneously, the rough and textured materiality of quartzite stones and concrete (cast with thin pine planks) is accentuated under changing light conditions. Vegetation DiagramComfort - The construction solutions ensure exceptional thermal inertia: a waterproofed concrete roof topped with a reflecting pool and thick stone walls. Additionally, the space is naturally ventilated through the perimeter opening, irrespective of wind direction, taking advantage of the region's pure air. © Leonardo FinottiThe chapel's solid construction and textured stone surfaces contribute to acoustic comfort and sound reflection, though the setting is primarily dominated by silence and the sounds of local fauna. © Leonardo FinottiDespite being conceived as a place for prayer and introspection, the space is versatile. Its movable furnishings can be arranged, for instance, in a large circular configuration, allowing for diverse uses. Section 01Innovation - The project draws on traditional Brazilian architectural techniques, with notable examples including the slender central pillar and the shell-like structure of the roof. These are the result of a sophisticated structural calculation. © Leonardo FinottiMoreover, careful land management, the preservation of all existing trees, and the harmonious integration of architecture with the natural landscape underscore the project’s commitment to environmental stewardship. © Leonardo FinottiLED lighting, designed to resemble candlelight, highlights the architectural voids at night while consuming minimal energy. © Leonardo FinottiDesign - As a symbolic space, the chapel’s architecture seeks to connect people with nature, the landscape, and the cosmos. The design choices foster an immersive experience (within a circular form that embraces visitors) while also promoting expansion (through the selected visual axes and the continuous perimeter opening). © Leonardo FinottiSocial and Urban Relevance - Universal accessibility was fundamental to the chapel’s design, achieved through gentle ramps connecting it to other structures on the property. This principle is most evident in the level access path, which leads seamlessly into the chapel’s interior. As visitors traverse the site, their interaction with the terrain shifts, akin to a gradual descent, alternating perceptions of scale and spatial relationships, encouraging an appreciation of all elements of the landscape. © Leonardo FinottiA capela é indissociável do percurso que lhe dá acesso Este caminho está intimamente ligado às árvores existentes e ao céu que passam a fazer parte também da arquitetura trazendo para si a paisagem e a ela se integrando You'll now receive updates based on what you follow Personalize your stream and start following your favorite authors If you have done all of this and still can't find the email Betty Duong, Santa Clara County Supervisor, poses for a photo, at the Santa Clara County Administration Building, in San José on April 3, 2025.  (Gina Castro/KQED)Betty Duong said that everyone she speaks with in her Vietnamese American community has a different feeling about April 30 when American soldiers pulled out of South Vietnam and the war officially ended Duong’s recently married mother fled Vietnam in the middle of the night with her husband on a fishing boat packed with people “It’s still a very painful part of time in their lives that I don’t know if they’ve completely gotten past or processed fully,” Duong that day marks the loss of their home country and a day of mourning Duong’s peers see it somewhat differently “When I talk to my second-generation colleagues and counterparts they say it was the beginning of our identity as a diaspora,” she said “It’s how we end up here in America.” Duong stands as an example of the growth and influence of the Vietnamese American diaspora in San José Beginning with the arrival of tens of thousands of refugees in the years after the war spurred by a need for cultural understanding and by critical events like the police killing of a Vietnamese American mother Duong grew up in the city and attended local schools before going on to UC Berkeley and Davis she became an attorney and then began work in the public sector for the county she became the first Vietnamese American elected to the office of Santa Clara County Supervisor is rooted in her ability to connect with varied voting groups developed through her own upbringing in the community and her reliance on public services Duong was born in San José after her parents arrived here with the help of Santa Clara County’s refugee resettlement program; her uncle and she often found herself translating for them at parent-teacher conferences an experience children of many immigrants and refugees are familiar with “This was also during the time when police officers and first responders didn’t have a language line or language access I was also volunteered to help translate these very serious situations,” Duong said something she feels a child should never have to do Growing up in Section 8 housing in downtown San José Duong thought the whole world looked like the five-block radius around her made up largely of Vietnamese and Latino families with doors left open all day in the warmer months for lack of air conditioning Many families were reliant on county services to help make ends meet put food on the table and access medical care Duong sings the praises of the county for welcoming Vietnamese refugees with open arms and offering support to her family at a critical time her work in public service has been shaped by her family’s experience with poorly implemented or culturally insensitive safety net programs that didn’t consider the different ways people might need assistance and it always added a sense of chaos to the world,” she said of the services she received “It was always somebody else’s call what we were going to eat how are we going to live and what that entailed.” Vietnamese American culture helps define San José and the region and politicians have understood for many years the value of the group as a coveted voting bloc About 122,000 residents identify as Vietnamese American representing more than 10% of the city’s population But Vietnamese Americans had to make major strides to overcome ignorance systemic exclusion and cultural and language access barriers along the way her family experienced blunt racism and bigotry with people directing slurs at her parents or telling her father to learn English or go back to his country Vietnamese refugees arrived in America at a fraught time a professor of sociology and Asian American studies at San José State University “There were people who were happy with the refugees There were people who weren’t happy with refugees,” said Do who has written extensively about Vietnamese Americans “ You have about 100,000 people or so coming from a war-torn country and a lot of them came literally without anything but the clothes on their backs it was a very traumatic experience.” in his attempt to avoid “ghettoism,” ordered the initial waves of refugees from Vietnam to be dispersed into different areas in the U.S Do said that broke apart networks of extended families and people who had come to know each other in refugee camps making it harder for them to find stability as groups of refugees eventually coalesced around warm weather areas such as Orange County according to the Immigration Policy Center “There are all these laws that were passed against people like us when we first came in the same way that every community had gone through that,” Do said “And sometimes people tend to forget that success breeds this idea that America is this land of meritocracy but it’s not quite there yet.” Duong recalls how she and other low-income families received so-called “government cheese” from food banks “But for a population that’s like 90% lactose intolerant that was just not a viable option,” Duong said of her family and other Vietnamese Americans It’s just one example of the sometimes ham-fisted approaches to public welfare that she experienced growing up She learned that building effective safety net programs requires collective input and designing empathetically for the unique needs of people with different backgrounds and experiences her mother often had to make elaborate public transit plans seeing a primary doctor in one area of San José and then being sent to see a specialist across the city a 2012 county study showed that Vietnamese Americans still faced physical and mental health challenges as well as intergenerational conflict and difficulty in navigating county services former Santa Clara County Supervisors Dave Cortese and Cindy Chavez helped spearhead the opening of the Vietnamese American Services Center in 2021 on Senter Road close to Vietnamese American neighborhoods and businesses with culturally competent services for mental and behavioral health social services and nutrition programs for older adults Duong was the project’s lead for the county “Why does it take this long for us to have this?” Duong said of equitable services and centers “There needs to be more Vietnamese representation There needs to be more Latino representation There needs to be more South Asian representation Our elected bodies don’t look like our communities yet For Duong and so much of the Vietnamese American community the need for that representation became more urgent about two decades ago Duong was attending De Anza College when she was shaken by the fatal police shooting of a Vietnamese American woman who was experiencing a mental health crisis in her San José home Bich Cau Thi Tran was a small woman weighing less than 100 pounds and a mother of two young boys who struggled with her mental health She was killed by San José Police Officer Chad Marshall when he responded to a call about a domestic concern at Tran’s apartment in the Northside neighborhood Tran was holding a Vietnamese-style vegetable peeler Marshall said later he thought it was a knife we were hearing on TV that this woman attacked the officer with a butcher knife,” Duong said It was only through testimony in a rare open grand jury proceeding that more details were revealed when we saw that it was the same vegetable peeler that’s in every single Asian household … it was just really heartbreaking,” Duong said marches and a reckoning within the community about how police treat residents in American communities It helped propel Madison Nguyen into a San José City Council seat in 2005 becoming the first Vietnamese American person elected in the city the Vietnamese American community was less engaged in local politics and often treated as an afterthought by power brokers and the establishment in City Hall we didn’t know about politics or civic engagement and also because of the system and how it was designed to keep Asian people quiet,” Nguyen said and how things were going during the 80s and 90s.” He recalls being on Mayor Tom McEnery’s Advisory Group on Minority Affairs which amounted to monthly meetings where the mayor told the group things were going well Nguyen said the community began clamoring about the lack of Vietnamese American representation on the city council and in city staffing ranks and the lack of a clear path to apply for city contracts or grants a city hall emissary was sent to tell the community they were being heard but not to “burden yourself” by putting up a Vietnamese American candidate for office and not to confuse “equal rights for equal representation,” Nguyen said “It’s always been that things don’t change until people speak out get together and act with their votes,” he said Tran’s killing “woke people up the executive director of the Asian Law Alliance also helped form the Coalition for Justice and Accountability in the wake of Tran’s killing calling for greater cultural sensitivity in San José’s policing Konda said the shooting shifted the sole focus of many in the Vietnamese American community in San José away from the issues in their home country which were still looming large in the collective consciousness they weren’t really looking inward in terms of the politics of local or state government,” Konda said I don’t know if you want to call it a triggering point but something that maybe caused some people to kind of think about we need to maybe get more involved locally.’” Duong called Tran’s death a “defining moment” for herself and her community and she still becomes emotional when speaking about her Tran’s killing — that was the first time that we were faced with this reality that it was really undeniable at that point that there is a problem There is a rift between police and community in this country,” she said who translated for her community in police interactions as a child said those experiences inspired her to help develop language access policies in 2014 establishing a dedicated language access unit in 2020 She said it was a rare moment that she and her father saw eye to eye on law enforcement during that time “he and I really agreed that significant missteps camouflaged racism — these were all at play.” the community has grown in power and influence politicians and city and county officials have courted Vietnamese American voters They often show up to celebrations or events near the Grand Century Mall and the Vietnam Town shopping center in Little Saigon to talk with residents Some wear traditional Vietnamese clothing known as an ao dai and learn short phrases in Vietnamese to show solidarity But having a seat at the table is a recent accomplishment Only five Vietnamese Americans have been elected to the San José City Council in 50 years and Duong is the first to become a county supervisor credits Duong’s election victory to her ability to appeal to the common humanity across many different constituencies which he said represents a maturation for politicians from the community “She was able to build this coalition that she’s not only seen as this great but one that really understands how to work the system to benefit all of us not just her own Vietnamese American community because that would not have been enough to elect her,” he said “She really can bridge a lot of these amazing stories from different communities.” This year marks half a century as a Vietnamese American community for so many in San José newer generations keep the memories and feelings of their elders close at heart said she faces a “constant negotiation” about how to share her Vietnamese American identity with her young our cultural traditions and ceremonies — that originated in a country called Vietnam,” she said “I hope that my daughter will learn as much as possible know as much as I do about her grandparents’ journey to America and how that translates to why we need to take care of each other in community,” Duong said as groups hold annual remembrances for the Fall of Saigon there has at times been tension between the generations or a disconnect about what they experienced He attributed that to a lack of education in American schools about the war and that elders may sometimes be hesitant to share details about their trauma guilt and memories because they want to protect youth from it So many Vietnamese refugees who ended up in San José were forced to start over professionally educators or high-ranking military officers in Vietnam some had to learn new skills to become engineers or assembly line workers while some opened restaurants and grocery stores to just to be in a space where they don’t have to explain to people how and why they feel the way that they feel,” Do said a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and professor who grew up in San José after fleeing Vietnam with his parents at a young age also spoke of the difficulties Vietnamese Americans face in trying to ensure younger generations know the history of their elders and the war while allowing them enough freedom from horrific experiences to create their own paths He drew inspiration from the conclusion of Toni Morrison’s novel about slavery “This is not a story to pass on.” “This is not a story that we should avoid but it’s also not a story that we should pass on to another generation but they exist simultaneously because we haven’t escaped from history yet,” Nguyen said “And I think that’s true for the Vietnam War It’s something that we should remember but it’s also something that we shouldn’t pass on “That’s a balancing act that I think is part of our challenge.” What is undeniable is the growth of the Vietnamese American community in Santa Clara County in political and cultural prominence which may have been tough to see in the beginning years after the Fall of Saigon something shifted at some point where now we were welcomed,” Duong said I wish I could go back and tell my younger self that this world gets better This life becomes more integrated and surrounded with joy and you would be proud to be Vietnamese American,” she said Tordillos said he is “very excited by the results.” And that he’s looking forward to the runoff election in June to “being able to get out there and talk to voters about our plan to address our housing affordability and homelessness crises and make real progress on quality of life issues like public safety.” Tordillos ran without the outside financial support enjoyed by Chavez-Lopez and Quevedo outside groups spent more than $450,000 to support Chavez-Lopez while committees funded by business and real estate interests spent over $250,000 to back Quevedo This funding fueled an avalanche of mailers and ads, but fewer than 20% of registered voters in the district cast a ballot. The election was called after former Councilmember Omar Torres resigned in November and later pleaded no contest to three charges of child sex abuse Chavez-Lopez led the field of seven candidates in the April 8 election with 30% of the vote but fell short of the majority needed to avoid a runoff In addition to her endorsement by the South Bay Labor Council Chavez-Lopez shared an endorsement from the Santa Clara County Democratic Party with Tordillos “We are moving full steam ahead into the runoff and I am more determined than ever to deliver the leadership our community deserves,” Chavez-Lopez said in a statement on Sunday The result represents a political setback for Mahan, who endorsed Quevedo as he looked to solidify a six-vote majority of support on the council. Unlike Quevedo, both Chavez-Lopez and Tordillos opposed a key plank of Mahan’s budget proposal: arresting unhoused people who refuse multiple offers of shelter Mahan now faces increased pressure to win approval for his agenda while the District 3 seat is held by interim Councilmember Carl Salas The council will vote on Mahan’s final budget plan in early June and the winner of the District 3 election will take office in July Thursday’s recount took place at the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters office in San José where election workers manually reviewed more than 9,000 ballots from neighborhoods including downtown Santa Clara County election law requires a recount if the margin of victory between two candidates is less than 0.25% or 25 votes The registrar’s office will mail a ballot to every voter in the district in late May for the runoff election Correction: An earlier version of this story said Anthony Tordillos opposed Mayor Matt Mahan’s plans to link elected officials’ pay raises to benchmarks such as reductions in homelessness and crime A campaign spokesman said Tordillos is “generally supportive” of the idea - San José State Athletics is excited to announce a new partnership with Teamworks Influencer aimed at providing student-athletes with enhanced Name The collaboration will enable Spartans to maximize their NIL potential while gaining access to a range of premium tools and resources for revenue generation "The Teamworks Influencer app has education modules to help student-athletes learn how to grow their brand and in turn create additional revenue streams through NIL while also allowing the department to share photos and videos to add to their platforms in an easy efficient way with face recognition software." “We are incredibly excited to be a part of San José State Athletics’ commitment to empowering student-athletes in the NIL space,” said Teamworks Influencer Senior Account Executive Sean Kelly “By equipping these athletes with the tools to enhance their personal brands and manage their NIL opportunities we are opening doors to new possibilities that will benefit both them and their communities We look forward to seeing how this partnership will help the Spartans excel.” Enhanced NIL Opportunities for Student-Athletes: available on Teamworks' Operating System for Sports™ is the leading athlete brand-building and NIL business management app for over 270 elite collegiate and professional sports organizations The Influencer athlete app educates student-athletes and staff for the NIL era in a safe and compliant environment all powered by best-in-class content delivery for student-athletes to access and share content to their social media channels The Influencer platform also includes the impactful Influencer Exchange and report NIL transactions with student-athletes in this school-customized NIL exchange The Influencer Local Exchange maximizes the student-athlete wallet share while streamlining compliance and tax reporting responsibilities To learn more about the Influencer Exchange BOX SCORE A pitcher’s duel in which neither team could plate an earned run turned on defense in the 7th inning with the Fresno Grizzlies (8-12) falling 2-1 to the San Jose Giants (12-8) Saturday evening at Excite Ballpark in San Jose. Lebarron Johnson Jr. set career-highs in innings pitched and strikeouts while matching zeroes with San Jose’s starter Jacob Bresnahan who also had a career-day. Bresnahan struck out seven Grizzlies the first time through the order before Kelvin Hidalgo’s two-out single to right field in the fourth earned the first baserunner of the day for either team. Bresnahan exited after five while Johnson worked through six scoreless innings and the game was tied at zero heading into the seventh. Blake Wright singled to start the inning and Tommy Hopfe hit a slow roller 50 feet up the first base line for an infield single before San Jose’s first basemen threw the ball towards first anyway. The ball bounced away from the Giants and allowed Wright to come around for the first run of the game and Hopfe to get to third. But San Jose’s defense buckled down as Carlos Gutierrez caught a fly ball in right field off the bat of Felix Tena and unleashed a perfect throw home to nail Hopfe at the plate and end the inning. San Jose then capitalized on an error from the Grizzlies as Dakota Jordan reached on an error after a soft ground ball to second. Fernando Gonzalez singled before a walk loaded the bases. The Grizzlies kept the infield back and turned a double play on Elian Rayo, conceding the tying run and allowing Gonzalez to third. A wild pitch let Gonzalez score what would be the winning run. It also turned Johnson’s start into a no-decision as the Grizzlies suffer the first loss in one of his starts this season. The Grizzlies outhit the Giants for the first time in the series, but their usual stout defense committed three errors, leading to San Jose’s scoring. Fresno did flash the gloves on three ground ball double plays, giving the California League best 17. Saturday is the first one-run loss of the season for the Grizzlies. The series concludes in San Jose on Sunday afternoon with a 1pm start. Ismael Luciano will start for the Grizzlies against the Giants’ Gerelmi Maldonado. All broadcasts will be available through the MiLB.TV app and fans can listen to the Voice of the Grizzlies, Tim Slack via the audio tab or at fresnogrizzlies.com/watch with the audio player. The Fresno Grizzlies are a proud affiliate of the Colorado Rockies organization. During the 2024 season, the Grizzlies held several California League season records, including most attended game and highest overall attendance. The team plays at Chukchansi Park, a year-round venue that hosts numerous special events. Mountain West Conference Championships 3/21/2025 11:28:00 AM | Women's Gymnastics Head Coach Jennifer Green recaps a strong showing at Oregon State details preparations to go big at MW Championships Game #58: Tucson Roadrunners (6) vs San Jose Barracuda (3) Agozzino’s Hat Trick Powers Roadrunners Past Barracuda AZ –  Roadrunners alternate captain Andrew Agozzino recorded a hat trick and defenseman Max Szuber tallied three assists to propel Tucson to a 6-3 victory over the San Jose Barracuda (29-21-4-3) on Saturday at Tucson Arena The Roadrunners (28-25-3-2) jumped out to a commanding 3-0 lead in the first period and never trailed Curtis Douglas opened the scoring for the third consecutive game netting the first goal early in the opening frame Agozzino then struck twice in a span of just over five minutes to extend Tucson’s advantage to three before the first intermission San Jose responded early in the second when Colin White went bar down just 1:35 into the period to cut the deficit to 3-1 Agozzino completed his hat trick on a five-on-three power play midway through the frame to restore Tucson’s three-goal cushion Agozzino became the second Roadrunner to record a hat trick this season Szuber recorded his third assist of the night on the goal marking his first three-point game of the season and the second of his AHL career—both coming against San Jose as Andrew Poturalski capitalized on the power play late in the second to make it 4-2 heading into the third San Jose inched closer when Rem Pitlick scored on the man advantage with 5:04 remaining in regulation to cut the deficit to one The Barracuda pressed for the equalizer late but Kailer Yamamoto and McCartney each buried empty-net goals in the final minute to secure the 6-3 win The victory snapped Tucson’s three-game losing streak and improved the Roadrunners’ season record to 2-1 against San Jose Tucson goaltender Matthew Villalta made 31 saves to secure his 15th win of the season Agozzino’s second-period power-play goal not only completed his hat trick but also gave the Roadrunners a commanding three-goal lead It marked the fourth hat trick of his AHL career and his first since Nov tallying four goals in his last four games and racking up eight points (6G He’s been especially lethal on the power play After netting two power-play goals on Saturday Agozzino now leads Tucson with seven on the season and is tied with Yamamoto for the team lead in power-play points with 15 (7G marking Agozzino’s team-leading fifth game-winning goal of the season lighting the lamp for the third straight game—all of them serving as the game’s opening goal The three-game goal streak is the first of his career and his sixth tally of the season in 50 games surpasses last year’s total of five 242-pound forward has developed a knack for striking early with four of his six goals coming in the first period Douglas now sits at 91 career AHL points with his latest marker he (Andrew Agozzino) is the kind of player who you just give him the puck and let him do his thing It’s awesome to have him on the team and he just buried it for us.” The Roadrunners stormed out of the gates and controlled the game in the early going and Ryan McGregor nearly opened the scoring McGregor initiated the sequence with a wraparound attempt before Douglas followed up with a point-blank shot from the low slot San Jose goaltender Gabriel Carriere made the initial save and denied McGregor’s rebound attempt That strong shift sparked Tucson’s offense Agozzino nearly capitalized on a breakaway The veteran forward slipped behind the Barracuda defense and charged in alone but Carriere kicked aside his shot to keep the game scoreless The Roadrunners’ relentless pressure finally broke through with two goals in a span of 2:34 the Douglas-McGregor-Lutz line delivered as Douglas put Tucson on the board for the third consecutive game at 7:30 McGregor set up the play from behind the net snapping a perfectly placed pass to Douglas in the slot where he buried a one-timer past Carriere to give the Roadrunners a 1-0 lead Tucson doubled its advantage just over two minutes later when Agozzino struck for his first of the night Robbie Russo’s shot from the point was blocked and rifled a wrist shot glove-side to make it 2-0 at 10:04 The intensity ramped up 90 seconds later when Travis Barron dropped the gloves with San Jose’s Anthony Vincent sending Tucson Arena into a frenzy before motioning to the crowd to get louder as he skated to the penalty box Tucson nearly made it 3-0 after a costly mistake by the Barracuda San Jose defenseman Luca Cagnoni broke his stick attempting a pass deep in his own zone allowing Cameron Hebig to intercept and lead an odd-man rush Hebig fed Artem Duda for a one-timer in the slot but Carriere made a sliding stop to keep the Roadrunners from extending their lead Poturalski took a tripping penalty off the ensuing faceoff and Tucson wasted no time capitalizing on the power play Agozzino netted his second goal of the night blasting home Yamamoto’s cross-slot pass from the left circle to put the Roadrunners up 3-0 with 4:28 remaining Tucson carried its three-goal lead into the first intermission after outshooting the Barracuda 17-6 and dominating the opening frame in all three phases of the game Colin White ripped a shot bar down from the top of the right circle to cut the Roadrunners’ lead to 3-1 Tucson had a prime opportunity to restore its three-goal cushion when Cagnoni was called for interference sending the Roadrunners to their second power play of the night Forwards Sammy Walker and Egor Sokolov each had quality scoring chances but the man advantage was cut short after Tucson took a holding penalty successfully killed off San Jose’s abbreviated power play to regain momentum Tucson found itself on a five-on-three power play just past the midway point after Lucas Vanroboys and Pavol Regenda took penalties 11 seconds apart The Roadrunners capitalized on the two-man advantage as Agozzino completed the hat trick with 9:10 remaining Agozzino fired a missile of a wrist shot from the top of the right circle picking the top-left corner to beat Carriere blocker side and put Tucson up 4-1 San Jose pushed back late in the period and earned a power play with 3:22 remaining after McCartney was called for high-sticking as Poturalski blasted a one-timer past Villalta to make it a 4-2 game with 1:32 left in the period After a tightly contested start to the final frame Villalta made a crucial stop to maintain the Roadrunners’ lead San Jose’s Jake Furlong ripped a heavy wrister that struck Villalta square in the mask Villalta regrouped quickly and continued to command the crease Villalta turned aside the first four shots of the period before a slashing penalty on Scott Sabourin at 6:20 put Tucson on the power play The Roadrunners created several quality chances including a pair of one-timers from Agozzino but Carriere stood tall to keep it a two-goal game San Jose earned back-to-back power plays later in the period and capitalized on the second opportunity Pitlick pounced on a rebound and buried a power-play goal to pull the Barracuda within one with 5:04 remaining San Jose pulled Carriere for the extra attacker with just under two minutes left but Tucson iced the game with a pair of empty-net goals Yamamoto struck first with 45 seconds left followed by McCartney 25 seconds later to seal a 6-3 Roadrunners victory Game #59: Tucson Roadrunners (6) vs San Jose Barracuda (5) Shootout SAN JOSE SCORING: Danil Gushchin (21) AZ –  The Roadrunners (29-25-3-2) staged a dramatic two-goal comeback in the final six minutes to defeat the San Jose Barracuda (29-21-4-4) in a 6-5 shootout thriller Sunday at Tucson Arena Curtis Douglas netted his second goal of the night to pull Tucson within one forward Sammy Walker delivered the equalizer with 1:50 left in regulation to force overtime tallying the game-winner before Max Szuber scored the insurance goal in the second round Goaltender Matthew Villalta turned aside both San Jose shootout attempts and finished with 34 saves to secure his 16th win of the season Hunter Drew opened the scoring with his 13th goal of the campaign while alternate captain Ben McCartney found the back of the net for the second consecutive game The win marked Tucson’s first shootout victory of the season and clinched the team’s first series sweep since a 4-3 overtime win against Abbotsford on Feb the Roadrunners closed the gap to three points behind sixth-place San Jose in the Pacific Division standings while extending their lead over eighth-place Bakersfield to four points Douglas extended his goal streak to four games igniting Tucson’s comeback early in the second period It marked the first four-game goal streak of his career and makes him just the second Roadrunner this season to score in four straight games who registered the team’s other four-game streak from Jan burying his second goal of the night with six minutes remaining to pull Tucson within one The tally marked the first multi-goal game of his AHL career Drew and Travis Barron made an impact early each recording two points in the first period It marked Drew’s sixth multi-point game of the season and Barron’s second of the 2024-25 campaign—his first since Jan Barron now has three assists in his last four games The Roadrunners’ alternate captain also dropped the gloves for the second consecutive game squaring off with San Jose’s Lucas Vanroboys in the opening frame for his third fight of the season it just goes to show what kind of group we have but we stuck in there and got a big Roadrunners win.” with Anthony Vincent whistled for tripping in the opening minute and Rem Pitlick heading to the box for the same infraction just four minutes in Tucson had a chance to capitalize on the man advantage Villalta briefly left the game due to an equipment issue Backup netminder Dylan Wells stepped in for less than a minute and made a key stop on Vanroboys’ wrist shot The Roadrunners couldn’t convert on either early power play but struck first at even strength moments later finding the net from a sharp angle along the goal line Barron led a two-on-one rush and fed Drew from the high slot to the lower left circle Drew attempted a centering pass back to Barron but the puck deflected off San Jose goalie Aaron Dell’s right pad and slid in to give Tucson a 1-0 lead turning the tide with a pair of power-play goals just 53 seconds apart Danil Gushchin fired a wrist shot home from the top of the left circle on a five-on-three advantage to even the score at 9:34 Lucas Carlsson buried a one timer from the right circle past Villalta to put the Barracuda ahead 2-1 at 10:27 Tucson answered right back three minutes later McCartney buried a quick wrister from inside the right circle off a feed from Drew Tucson defenseman Lleyton Moore was called for interference giving San Jose its third power play of the period as Luca Cagnoni’s shot from the point was tipped home by Andrew Poturalski restoring San Jose’s lead at 3-2 with five minutes left in the frame leading to a pair of fights in the final three minutes while Barron dropped the gloves with Vanroboys marking Barron’s second straight game with a fight Between the two fights and a slew of minor penalties the teams combined for 50 penalty minutes in the opening period—30 assessed to Tucson and 20 to San Jose the Roadrunners went back on the power play and nearly tied it up when defenseman Artem Duda rang a shot off the left post from the right circle with 1:13 remaining The Barracuda struck first in the second period extending their lead to 4-2 just 4:38 in when Poturalski jammed home a rebound above the crease after following up Cagnoni’s wrist shot from the slot Poturalski’s second goal of the game gave San Jose its largest lead of the series as Duda unleashed a blistering slap shot from the top of the left circle and Douglas deflected it past Dell to cut the deficit to 4-3 at 5:50 The goal extended Douglas’ scoring streak to a career-high four games The Roadrunners carried the momentum into the second half of the period and generated a pair of quality scoring chances in the final 10 minutes Captain Austin Poganski had multiple whacks at a loose rebound in front but Dell stood tall to keep San Jose in front Cameron Hebig led a two-on-one rush and fed a pass off Kailer Yamamoto’s skate just above the crease but the puck trickled just wide of the open far side of the net Tucson’s sustained pressure earned a power play after Jack Thompson was called for holding with 7:10 left San Jose’s penalty kill stood strong and prevented the Roadrunners from registering a shot on goal Max Szuber electrified the Tucson Arena crowd of 5,785 with a heavy hit on Vincent and Andrew Agozzino joined him for roughing giving the Barracuda a five-on-three power play with 37 seconds left Villalta came up big and made three clutch saves in the final 15 seconds to keep it a one-goal game heading into the second intermission Tucson began the third period still facing a five-on-three penalty kill and San Jose capitalized just 49 seconds in Pavol Regenda hammered home a point-blank one-timer from just outside the crease The Roadrunners pushed back four minutes later nearly cutting the deficit when Julian Lutz fired a one-timer from the slot but Dell made a stellar save to keep Tucson at bay a tripping penalty against the Roadrunners seven minutes into the period stalled their momentum Tucson’s penalty kill delivered and neutralized the Barracuda’s power play driving hard to the net one-on-one against a San Jose defender but Dell kicked his shot aside 8:30 into the frame Yamamoto was called for hooking three minutes later the Roadrunners’ penalty kill came up big and successfully killed their second consecutive infraction to create momentum Less than a minute after returning to full strength The red-hot forward sniped a shot from the top of the left circle past Dell cutting the deficit to 5-4 with six minutes remaining the Roadrunners were handed a golden opportunity when Vanroboys was called for delay of game Walker buried a rebound in front with 1:50 remaining capping a dramatic third-period comeback and forcing overtime Villalta came up clutch just 28 seconds into the three-on-three overtime and made a huge point-blank stop to rob Ethan Cardwell and keep Tucson alive Poganski led a two-on-one rush into the Barracuda zone and set up Hebig for a one-timer Poganski crashed the net and took a couple of whacks at the loose rebound Tucson was handed a prime opportunity when Thomas Bordeleau was whistled for holding giving the Roadrunners a four-on-three power play Tucson peppered the Barracuda net with quality looks Yamamoto blasted a one-timer from the slot while Szuber and Agozzino each had a good look from the top of the circles Dell and the San Jose penalty kill stood tall surviving the late push to force a shootout scoring on both attempts while Villalta denied San Jose’s two chances to secure the comeback victory Walker calmly skated in and snapped a shot past Dell to give the Roadrunners the early edge Villalta denied Danil Gushchin’s deke attempt to keep Tucson in the driver’s seat Szuber strengthened Tucson’s position firing a shot past Dell to put Tucson up 2-0 but Villalta shut the door with a clutch save to cap the Roadrunners’ thrilling victory The Roadrunners will hit the road for a two-game weekend set against the first-place Colorado Eagles. The series kicks off on Saturday at 6:05 p.m. MST. Fans can catch the action live on AHLTV on FloHockey Whether it’s your first time at Children’s Mercy Park or a season regular here’s everything you need to know ahead of the Sporting KC vs San Jose Earthquakes on Saturday Sporting Kansas City will face San Jose Earthquakes in the 2025 Homeopener at Children's Mercy Park on Saturday March 1 Children's Mercy Park uses various pyrotechnics and strobe lighting effects which may be unsuitable for individuals with certain medical conditions or light sensitivity Supporter Stand ticket holders and Season Ticket Members are encouraged to hang out in the Budweiser Brew House for prematch specials and to welcome the players as they arrive at Children’s Mercy Park The 2025 One KC Kit is on sale now! At Saturday's game, buy your One KC Kit and receive free customization! This promo is available both online and in the stadium through Saturday's match, so be sure to check it out at Sporting Style. 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using the fire department's emergency medical services While such services only represent about 16% of the fire department's total operating budget demand for emergency medical care significantly increased after the COVID-19 pandemic -- with 911 incidents reaching all-time highs since 2022 Approved unanimously by the City Council Tuesday the fire department will be able to bill $427 for emergency medical care starting Jan Watch NBC Bay Area News free wherever you are Sapien said the city's fire department has evolved into a substantial medical care provider in the community since forming more than 170 years ago responding to more 68,000 requests for emergency medical services in 2024 "Implementing a first responder fee will align the department with other medical care providers helping our community to sustain critical life safety services through cost recovery from medical care payers," he told San Jose Spotlight But residents who are treated by San Jose Fire Department first responders could be stuck footing the bill if they don't have insurance "It has become a common practice for fire agencies across California to fund the enhanced paramedic level of service through a user fee," Sapien said "First responders will attempt to obtain medical insurance to collect the first responder fee most automobile insurance companies already have policies that include coverage for medical expenses." Mayor Matt Mahan described the fee program as a community-centered approach that doesn't put an undue financial burden on residents "I really appreciate us being sensitive to the financial realities of our residents and focusing on what's billable and recoverable under insurance -- not going after residents," he said Tuesday "This fee protects our response system in a way that is fair and sustainable." The San Jose Fire Department only provided basic life support until 1995 when the department's Emergency Medical Services (EMS) evolved into providing more in-depth care as demand increased alongside the city's growth Get a weekly recap of the latest San Francisco Bay Area housing news with the Housing Deconstructed newsletter Medical-only EMS incidents have averaged 62% of total fire department response incidents over the past 10 years Fire department officials looked to neighboring agencies like the San Francisco Fire Department when calculating the $427 per-incident cost of San Jose's first responders fee Cities with such programs target collections through commercial and private insurance companies with established billing policies to cover this fee type on behalf of the insured person The department has an 80% chance of collecting fee payments from residents with accident coverage or auto insurance but only a 3% chance to collect from residents with private health insurance This fee is distinct and cannot overlap with transport reimbursement and it is solely for the cost incurred in assisting with EMS treatment of patients Sapien said the fire department expects to collect $4 million annually from the first responder fees "The first responder fee is the first step in a series of many that the city is looking to take to restore fire-based service in San Jose," Jerry May spokesperson for San Jose Fire Fighters Local 230 "It's encouraging to see solutions being proposed." said he wants underserved residents to know they won't be financially penalized under the fee program Uninsured residents can pay a reduced fee or get the fee waived altogether if they qualify for the "compassionate billing" provision "The final initial fee and associated annual revenue will be recommended as part of the 2025-26 proposed budget," Sapien said "The department would establish an agreement with a third-party agency to perform billing and collection of revenue for the first responder and vehicle collision response fees." Editor's note: This story was originally published by San Jose Spotlight Game #42: Tucson Roadrunners (4) at San Jose Barracuda (3) Walker’s Four-Point Debut Propels Roadrunners to 4-3 Comeback Victory Over Barracuda CA – Sammy Walker made an immediate impact in his Tucson Roadrunners (20-19-2-1) debut recording two goals and two assists to lead the Roadrunners to a 4-3 comeback win over the San Jose Barracuda (23-14-2-3) on Friday night at Tech CU Arena acquired earlier this week from the Iowa Wild became the first Roadrunner to notch four points in a game this season San Jose built a 2-0 lead in the second period behind goals from Thomas Bordeleau and Pavol Regenda the Roadrunners stormed back with two power-play goals in a 30-second span late in the frame Robbie Russo got Tucson on the board with his first goal of the season before Walker netted the equalizer The Roadrunners carried that momentum into the third period taking the lead just 16 seconds in when captain Austin Poganski one-timed a pass from Walker in the slot to make it 3-2 as Brandon Coe cleaned up a rebound to tie the game Tucson responded again midway through the period and it was Walker delivering the go-ahead goal Curtis Douglas forced a turnover in the defensive zone and carried the puck up ice before threading a centering feed that Walker redirected past San Jose netminder Yaroslav Askarov to put the Roadrunners ahead 4-3 at 9:07 Roadrunners goalie Jaxson Stauber made 26 saves to secure his seventh win of the season The victory snapped Tucson’s eight-game winless streak and got their season-high seven-game road trip off to a strong start With the seventh-place Bakersfield Condors falling 4-3 in overtime to the Chicago Wolves the Roadrunners moved within two points of the final playoff spot in the Pacific Division Walker contributed to all four goals in Tucson’s comeback victory In his first game since being acquired from the Iowa Wild earlier this week Walker assisted on Robbie Russo’s power-play goal that got the Roadrunners on the board then buried one himself just 30 seconds later—again on the man advantage—to tie the game 2-2 Walker added an assist on Austin Poganski’s early third-period goal before netting the go-ahead tally midway through the final frame he became the first Roadrunner this season to record a four-point game—securing the game-winning goal in the process Now that’s how you make a first impression Austin Poganski opened the third period with a goal just 16 seconds in the fastest the Roadrunners have scored to start a period this season set by Egor Sokolov in the season opener on Oct Poganski’s goal gave Tucson its first lead of the night and completed a comeback from a 2-0 deficit “Just hearing from the team about where they were before this game it’s awesome and I’m just I’m happy I can contribute.” drawing a high-sticking penalty just eight seconds into the game Kailer Yamamoto fired a shot from the high slot forcing Askarov into making stellar glove save on Maveric Lamoureux’s rebound attempt near the crease San Jose successfully killed off the early penalty and soon earned a power play of their own Aku Räty chipped the puck out of the zone and quickly regained possession carrying it across the ice before setting up Yamamoto in front tempers flared as former Barracuda Montana Onyebuchi squared off against San Jose’s Scott Sabourin in a spirited bout at center ice The two heavyweights exchanged blows in a lengthy scrap before tapping each other on the chest in a show of respect It marked Onyebuchi’s team-leading sixth fight of the season Tucson went back on the power play late in the period after Joey Keane was assessed a double minor for high-sticking Ben McCartney The Roadrunners came inches away from capitalizing when Lamoureux blasted a one-timer from the left circle that rang off the post sending Yamamoto and San Jose’s Anthony Vincent to the box for roughing and creating a brief four-on-three opportunity for Tucson Despite strong puck movement and sustained pressure the Roadrunners couldn’t break through on the extended man advantage Tucson outshot San Jose 13-7 in the period San Jose struck first less than two minutes into the middle frame Bordeleau crashed the crease and fired a quick shot that was blocked but he stayed with the play and buried his own rebound past Stauber Tucson earned another power-play opportunity five and a half minutes into the period when Keane was called for holding while trying to defend Räty along the boards Keane was also handed a 10-minute misconduct for abuse of an official but the Roadrunners’ man advantage was short-lived as Walker was whistled for holding just 43 seconds later San Jose took advantage of their abbreviated power play once Keane’s penalty expired Regenda capitalized on a rebound off a Luca Cagnoni shot from the corner stuffing it past Stauber to extend the Barracuda lead to 2-0 at 7:55 The Roadrunners responded with a strong push late in the period The trio controlled possession deep in the Barracuda zone setting up quality chances for Lamoureux and Max Szuber at the point McCartney nearly got Tucson on the board with a rebound attempt but Askarov made a sprawling save to preserve San Jose’s two-goal cushion Tucson’s persistence paid off when they went on the power play with 3:33 remaining after Bordeleau was sent to the box for holding McCartney dropped the puck back to Russo at the point and Russo wasted no time snapping a shot through traffic sneaking it past Askarov to cut the deficit to 2-1 with 2:51 left The momentum continued to swing in Tucson’s favor as Danil Gushchin took a penalty moments later putting the Roadrunners right back on the power play scoring Tucson’s second power-play goal in a 30-second span to tie the game 2-2 with 2:21 remaining in the period The Roadrunners carried their late second-period momentum into the final frame striking just 16 seconds in to take their first lead of the night Austin Poganski took a feed from Sammy Walker and went bar down to beat Askarov as it was the fastest goal they’ve scored to start a period this season San Jose answered back just over two minutes later to even the score Lucas Vanroboys fired a shot from the boards that took a sharp bounce toward the crease where Brandon Coe was waiting to tap in the rebound past Stauber Tucson regained the lead midway through the period The newly acquired forward netted his second goal of the night deflecting a centering feed from Douglas past Askarov at 9:07 to put the Roadrunners up 4-3 Douglas made the play happen with an impressive solo effort—intercepting a pass in Tucson’s defensive zone before racing up the ice Despite being hounded by San Jose defenseman Lukas Carlsson where Walker was perfectly positioned to redirect it home The Roadrunners will wrap up their two-game set against the San Jose Barracuda on Saturday afternoon at Tech CU Arena. Puck drop is set for 3 p.m. MST. Fans can catch all the action live on AHLTV on FloHockey Game #59: Tucson Roadrunners (28-25-3-2) vs San Jose Barracuda (29-21-4-3) LISTEN LIVE HERE WATCH LIVE HERE  Tucson Roadrunners Current Roster: CLICK HERE the Tucson Roadrunners (28-25-3-2) snapped a multi-game losing streak with a decisive win over the San Jose Barracuda (29-21-4-3) in Game One they’ll aim to complete the sweep in Sunday’s series finale at Tucson Arena The Roadrunners controlled Saturday’s opener from start to finish racing out to a three-goal first-period lead and cruising to a 6-3 victory Alternate captain Andrew Agozzino and second-year defenseman Max Szuber led the charge with three points apiece—Agozzino recorded his first hat trick of the season and fourth of his career while Szuber notched his first three-point game of the 2024-25 campaign with three assists The win improved Tucson’s record to 2-1 against San Jose and tightened the Pacific Division playoff race The Barracuda hold sixth place with 65 points while the Roadrunners sit in seventh—the final playoff spot—with 61 The Bakersfield Condors are close behind in eighth with 59 points A regulation win on Sunday would pull Tucson within two points of San Jose and secure the Roadrunners’ first series sweep since their 4-3 overtime victory over Abbotsford on Feb so we’ve kind of changed directions again and we’ll just try to keep it going and get the winning streak going.” 3 – Forward Curtis Douglas found the back of the net for the third consecutive game with each tally serving as the opening goal It marks the first three-game goal streak of his career and makes him the fifth active Roadrunner to record a three-game scoring streak this season Douglas is the first Tucson player to accomplish the feat since Hebig’s four-game streak from Jan Douglas would match Hebig’s team-high four-game goal streak this season EDITOR'S NOTE: In celebration of Major League Soccer's 30th season, MLSsoccer.com is exploring untold stories about all 30 clubs. "30 Clubs, 30 Stories" will be unveiled throughout 2025 Imagine for a moment that you’re a hyper-talented young soccer player making your way through your local club’s academy You’ve outshone your peers at every level so far in large part because you’re faster and stronger than everyone else around you You receive the ball on the wing and you recognize a defender closing down the space in front of you you just go ahead and send the ball 20 yards forward It’s not like he’s going to outrun you to it once it’s past him you play the ball centrally to set up a teammate for a shot despite everything you did before the shot The person reminding you to follow up the shot has scored more goals than anyone in MLS history San Jose’s U23 individual development programming head "I think you'll be rewarded a lot more often It's not cool posting about your two-yard rebound tap-in That’s not to say you have to avoid making a highlight reel. Yeah, Wondo is still going to get on your back about making the near-post run the same way former Houston Dynamo assistant coach John Spencer used to get on him about making the near-post run even if you don’t get on the ball with that run you’re setting yourself up to be in position for any rebounds But Wondo knows there are plenty of ways to succeed He knows that you can get 10 different opinions on how a single moment of play should develop and all 10 might be correct why wouldn’t you make that run when you can And you can do it even if it’s not totally instinctual "I think Wondo had this natural ability to know where to be at the right time and he had the ability to finish,” said former teammate and San Jose’s head of youth soccer partnerships Shea Salinas “But I think what makes a difficult transition for coaches or for players to become coaches is the fact that some things just come natural and are difficult to explain "And I think Wondo has a little bit of that he came from a background where he wasn't expected to be a great pro and he had to figure out how to become a really good player And so I think while figuring out how to become really good player he learned also how to teach people how to become a really good player So I think he has the ability to take his experiences apply them to young players these days and help them figure out how to become better pros." Wondo says he had more experienced players like Craig Waibel Dwayne De Rosario and Brad Davis showing him how to be a better pro It took a moment for their guidance to pay off He made just 19 starts in his first five MLS seasons when he started 26 times and scored 18 goals for the Quakes He proceeded to spend the entire decade scoring double-digit goals every single season That includes a 27-goal MVP season in 2012 as he led San Jose to the Supporters’ Shield A few difficult years led to a decade-plus of success Wondolowski got the time and patience to grow For academy players existing in an environment where becoming a successful professional can seem like the be-all end-all Even if you haven’t quite grasped the importance of a hard-driving near-post run maybe Wondo can help you understand how beneficial failure can be “Sometimes when you're playing up and trying to adapt you stick to the things that work for you,” Wondolowski said “So there aren't those times to really try things and be okay with failing at things kind of one of the things it's hard for a 15-year-old to try to understand It's okay to fail and it's actually a good thing it’s a little easier to accept failure when you know the folks pushing you will have your back regardless of the outcome He knows that there are younger players that have more athletic ability more talent and more technical ability than he did They also have more opportunities to succeed So what happens when things don’t go their way Wondo sees that some are up for a fight anytime something goes wrong There’s a reason teammates like Salinas remember him missing a chance in a game and staying late after the next practice just to finish that same chance over and over until he couldn’t get it wrong All of them need some kind of support system Wondo has seen both kinds of players as a mentor during his playing career and now as a coach That includes working with former San Jose forward and current Chivas standout Cade Cowell and Both have the kinds of physical tools Wondo lacked So Wondo is there to help a player like Chance understand how to harness those gifts includes instruction on how to be a professional and constant reminders to be there for a rebound But it also includes being a piece of that support “It was a little weird at first, because when he first gave me advice, it was like this big, really known guy talking to me,” Chance Cowell said “But now it's kind of like we've gotten super close together now So it's kind of just like talking to a friend.” Wondo is learning more about how much the small details matter in coaching Every practice and every drill is designed with a specific purpose in mind So is being a little more patient with how he approaches feedback Salinas remembers Wondolowski as an intense team captain who kept people accountable Salinas sees Wondo pulling young players to the side for quiet discussions It’s just how Wondo gets his soccer fix now after a 17-year playing career his role gives him the best of both worlds He’s able to be involved and watch young players grow each week while still being able to spend time with his family on the weekends even if Wondo took an imperfect path to get there I wouldn't have been a part of this.’ You know a part of this elite program,” Wondolowski said And I think that there's many different paths and roads to that journey into that final goal And I think that you need to be able to embrace that and understand that.” There are currently no upcoming/recent events Thanks for visiting ! 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Predicted lineups are available for the match a few days in advance while the actual lineup will be available about an hour ahead of the match 12 Mar 2025 00:30:00 GMT?Red Bull Bragantino won 1–1 (4–2) over EC Sao Jose after penalties on Wed 12 Mar 2025 00:30:00 GMT.About the matchRed Bull Bragantino is playing home against EC Sao Jose at Estádio Nabi Abi Chedid on Wed artificial intelligence and entrepreneurship reign a recent study puts San Jose as a leader in the nation’s manufacturing market The study by equipment supplier company ABM ranks San Jose as No 1 for cities with the highest concentration of manufacturing jobs in its workforce The study bases its findings on key metrics including total manufacturing employment manufacturing jobs as a percentage of the workforce and employment growth rates Bureau of Labor Statistics data to assess a city’s current and future manufacturing growth The rankings are based on a 100-point scoring system San Jose’s score is based on the number of manufacturing jobs accounting for 18% of the overall workforce according to city data — and pays employees an average of $79,300 a year the manufacturing industry largely consists of electronics machining and high-tech advanced manufacturing “San Jose is a leader in prototyping and advanced manufacturing one-fifth of whom have a STEM degree,” San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan told San José Spotlight “San Jose is what ‘Made in America’ looks like in the 21st century Our role and that of other cities that build and make things will only grow as global competition and security considerations drive increased re-shoring and domestic investment.” said local manufacturing is critical to the city’s economy It is a testament to the innovation that exists in the Bay Area as well as how local manufacturing supply chains support those innovations “Their ability to rapidly prototype locally is critical and the industry is very much interconnected from advanced manufacturing down to mom and pop machine shops,” Kenny told San José Spotlight well-paying jobs that help support a healthy middle class of society For local youth that may have barriers to post-secondary education manufacturing can be a particularly promising path toward career growth and entrepreneurship as well.” alleging the company did not pay workers overtime and failed to provide meal breaks but we want the jobs to be high road jobs where they pay the workers properly,” Silver Taube told San José Spotlight president and CEO of Joint Venture Silicon Valley said he is surprised to hear San Jose has the highest concentration of manufacturing jobs San Jose has also worked to highlight the manufacturing industry as a viable career and hosts an annual Manufacturing Week event bringing youth together to tour manufacturing facilities “A lot of people are saying we need to bring manufacturing back,” Hancock said “In a world that is now highly unpredictable with political tensions and market tensions So that’s why it probably makes sense to make sure that there’s capabilities at home Contact Joyce Chu at [email protected] or @joyce_speaks on X You must be logged in to post a comment 408.206.5327[email protected] Thanks for visiting The use of software that blocks ads hinders our ability to serve you the content you came here to enjoy We ask that you consider turning off your ad blocker so we can deliver you the best experience possible while you are here The REIT’s executives see a boost coming for Los Angeles thanks to the film industry and preparations for the Olympics and World Cup Like its Chicago-based REIT peer Equity Residential, Essex Property Trust reported solid fourth-quarter 2024 results this month but its funds from operations guidance came in below Wall Street’s expectations for 2025 managing director of REITs for investment bank Mizuho Securities wrote in a research report last week that the Palo Alto California-based REIT is “notoriously conservative” and 200 basis points of “headwinds” from redemptions of mezzanine redemptions and debt refinancings are partially responsible for that guidance “We also believe that Essex’s near-sector-leading same-store [revenue] with upside from a nascent recovery in Seattle and San Francisco is far more meaningful to its story and near-term growth prospects,” St Juste wrote in a report shared with Multifamily Dive “Other upside drivers include potential LA demand boost (not included) in the guidance and Essex’s fairly tepid economic/job growth outlook for its markets.” Juste believes the recovery in San Francisco and Seattle will be an “impactful tailwind” that will set the West Coast REIT up for improved earnings in the second half of 2025 and into 2026 “The West Coast is well-positioned with improving economic fundamentals as job growth is forecasted to outperform the U.S after lagging in 2024,” CEO Angela Kleiman said on the earnings call last week are expected to lead Essex’s portfolio with approximately 4% rent growth as tech employers hire workers and bring them back to the office in those areas “It is notable that recent office expansion announcements demonstrate the intention that the majority of new hirings will be focused in headquarter locations particularly the northern regions,” Kleiman said Seattle and San Jose were still dealing with concessions in December the supply delivery is comparable to last year,” Kleiman said we don't expect a meaningful change in terms of the concession environment.” Essex sees investments in the technology sector continuing to drive gains in Northern California “When we look at all the leases that have been signed We have some fintech; we have some software companies artificial intelligence sector is reeling after the Chinese firm DeepSeek’s announcement that it could produce artificial intelligence to compete with OpenAI at a lower price Kleiman thinks that news could ultimately drive innovation more competition will spur more innovation and investments in this sector,” she said Essex’s properties didn’t incur any loss in the recent wildfires in Los Angeles The REIT also didn’t forecast impacts from the wildfires in its 2025 projections “We had assumed the market starts to recover from some of the eviction noise that occurred in 2024,” said Essex Chief Financial Officer Barb Pak on the Q4 earnings call Although Essex has received inquiries from people who lost their homes to the fires that has not really translated to new leases “What we heard was that the fire victims are waiting for clarity from their insurance providers before making housing decisions,” she said “So it's going to take a lot more time to work through the system before it has any impact.” Since single-family homes were the majority of those residences destroyed by the fires most displaced families will need larger units with multiple bedrooms “I just don't see that as a huge impact in the near term,” Kleiman said As the Los Angeles area begins to rebuild from the devastating wildfires investment is being made in the region to prepare for the upcoming World Cup and Olympics and through the film industry tax credit which removes some of the income tax owed to California by the production company “The fourth quarter is the first time we saw jobs in the film industry improve for the first time in several years,” Kleiman said “So these things do give us hope about LA.” Click here to sign up to receive multifamily and apartment news like this article in your inbox every weekday Get the free daily newsletter read by industry experts Attorney General Matthew Platkin alleged that the company and operators have colluded to set rents for apartments statewide using its algorithmic pricing software Subscribe to the Multifamily Dive free daily newsletter Subscribe to Multifamily Dive for top news The free newsletter covering the top industry headlines San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan and Councilmember Peter Ortiz confirmed that U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were carrying out an operation on the east side of town on Sunday The Santa Clara County Rapid Response Network a "community defense project protecting immigrant communities against deportation threats," also reported the activity on its respective platforms Mahan said the San Jose Police Department was made aware of the "operations." "SJPD does not assist with or participate in these operations in any way," Mahan said in a statement to NBC Bay Area "I sincerely hope that ICE remains focused on enforcement actions related to violent and serious criminals harming our city not neighbors who are contributing and law-abiding members of our community." agents in San Jose were in unmarked vehicles a gray Nissan Maxima and a white Nissan truck ICE agents were reported outside a residence on South White Road and Tully Road officers were reported to be at the Target on King and Story roads "[It] appears they were conducting operations to enforce separation orders specifically targeting certain individuals," read the RRN's post on Facebook the RRN said its team did not observe any detentions Councilmember Ortiz also took to Instagram and alerted the community about the operation "Please share this information immediately and remind your loved ones to stay safe and indoors if possible," he wrote in his post Let’s look out for one another and ensure our community stays informed." A post shared by Councilmember Peter Ortiz (@peterortizd5) Sunday's ICE enforcement comes days after agents arrested a man in San Francisco The agency said the man arrested is a Colombian citizen and is in the U.S ICE added that the man has been convicted of sexual assault and sentenced to three years in prison Game #43: Tucson Roadrunners (3) at San Jose Barracuda (5) SAN JOSE SCORING: Filip Bystedt (8) Roadrunners Rally Falls Short in 5-3 Loss to Barracuda CA – The Tucson Roadrunners (20-20-2-1) wrapped up their weekend slate in San Jose with a series split falling 5-3 to the Barracuda (24-14-2-3) in Saturday’s finale at Tech CU Arena Tucson twice erased a one-goal deficit as they pushed for a second consecutive comeback victory Filip Bystedt opened the scoring for San Jose midway through the first period redirecting a point shot from defenseman Braden Hache Egor Sokolov responded in the final two minutes of the frame pouncing on a rebound from Hunter Drew’s shot to tie the game at 1-1 Danil Gushchin put the Barracuda back on top with just 15 seconds left in the period Cameron Hebig evened the score again early in the second sniping a shot from the top of the left circle for his career-high 17th goal of the season The milestone night also marked Hebig’s 260th career game with Tucson tying former Roadrunner and current Pittsburgh Penguin Michael Bunting for the most games played by a forward in franchise history Gushchin struck again midway through the second restoring San Jose’s lead at 3-2 heading into the third Tucson pressed for the equalizer in the final minutes but couldn’t find the breakthrough before San Jose secured the win with empty-net goals from Colin White and Ethan Cardwell Lleyton Moore added a late goal for the Roadrunners with a wrist shot from above the left circle in the final seconds Roadrunners netminder Matthew Villalta delivered a strong performance making 35 saves to give Tucson a chance at mounting a comeback It was the 11th time this season Villalta has recorded 30 or more saves in a game Hebig showed off his skill and hockey IQ while scoring his game-tying goal early in the second period After defenseman Max Szuber kept the puck in the offensive zone with a smart chip off the boards and ripped a blistering wrist shot past Romanov for his career-high 17th goal of the season The goal marked Hebig’s 31st point of the year putting him just one away from matching his career-best 32-point season in 2023-24 recording at least one point in 10 of his last 12 games tallying eight goals and six assists (14 points) during that span Hebig’s latest tally also moved him up the Roadrunners’ franchise leaderboard He now has 54 career goals in a Tucson sweater just four away from tying Lane Pederson for third-most in team history His 117th career point brings him within three of Jan Jeník for fourth all-time Sokolov’s game-tying goal late in the first period was the result of his pure effort and skill He forced a Barracuda turnover with relentless pressure then carried the puck into the San Jose zone before delivering a perfectly placed saucer pass to Drew in the slot Sokolov was there to bury the rebound and even the score at 1-1 The goal extended Sokolov’s point streak to four games (2G 2A) and further cemented his status as one of Tucson’s top offensive producers He ranks second on the team in goals (15) and points (32) “I feel like we have to keep building on what we’re doing here on this road trip Yesterday’s game definitely gave us confidence and I think we have to get that feeling back over the next couple of games on this road trip.” standing tall as San Jose’s attack pressed Tucson in the opening minutes He made an impressive stop seven and a half minutes in when he flashed the glove to deny Gushchin’s shot from the left circle Forward Travis Barron was a spark for Tucson in the early going He generated the team’s first scoring chance just two minutes in with a one-timed slap shot that San Jose netminder Georgi Romanov turned aside Barron set up Drew with a crisp feed from the left wing but Drew’s backhand attempt from the slot sailed just high San Jose broke through at 10:55 after a sustained offensive push and Bystedt deflected it past Villalta from just outside the crease to give the Barracuda a 1-0 lead making several key saves to keep the deficit at one he smothered a one-time slap shot from San Jose defenseman Lucas Carlsson off a faceoff in the Tucson zone He finished the period with 14 saves as the Barracuda outshot the Roadrunners 16-8 Sokolov capitalized on a Barracuda turnover in the Roadrunners’ zone and carried the puck cross-ice into San Jose territory he delivered a centering pass to Drew in the slot Drew redirected the puck off his skate and fired a shot off the crossbar Sokolov pounced on the rebound and buried it into the open net with Romanov out of position responded with a late tally to reclaim the lead before intermission Thomas Bordeleau weaved below the blue line and threaded a pass to a wide-open Gushchin behind the Tucson defense Gushchin deked and lifted the puck over Villalta’s shoulder to send the Barracuda into the break with a 2-1 advantage The Roadrunners started strong in the middle frame and quickly evened the score once again Szuber made a great effort to keep the puck in the offensive zone Hebig flew towards the slot and snapped a wrist shot into the top corner beating Romanov glove side to tie the game 2-2 Tucson kept the pressure on and nearly took the lead midway through the period Kailer Yamamoto found himself in prime position on the left side of the net after a rebound off Robbie Russo’s shot from the right wall Yamamoto caught the puck with his glove and attempted to settle it for a shot but the Barracuda defense knocked it away before he could get a clean look captain Austin Poganski set up Max Szuber with a backhand pass from the high slot but Szuber’s backhand attempt missed just wide San Jose reversed the momentum after earning the game’s first power play at the halfway mark and capitalized with the extra attacker The Barracuda caught a break when Poganski’s stick snapped in the defensive zone leaving an opening for Gushchin to rifle a perfectly placed shot into the top corner for his second goal of the game putting San Jose ahead 3-2 with eight minutes left in the period Villalta came up with his biggest save of the game in the final two minutes to keep Tucson within one making back-to-back point-blank saves—first on a one-timer from below the right circle then on Gushchin’s rebound attempt from just a few feet out San Jose looked to extend its lead in the closing moments as Gushchin once again appeared to complete his hat trick with 1:11 remaining He buried a one-timer from the left side off a feed from Luca Cagnoni on a two-on-one and celebrated what seemed to be his third goal of the night officials determined the puck hit the crossbar and right post without fully crossing the goal line overturning the call and keeping the score 3-2 The reversal gave Tucson a surge of momentum heading into the third period trailing by just one The Roadrunners had an early opportunity to tie the game when San Jose’s Pavol Regenda was called for slashing just 1:05 into the period giving Tucson its first power play of the night the advantage was cut short after an interference penalty negated the final 37 seconds Tucson killed off the ensuing Barracuda power play to keep their comeback hopes alive denying Tristen Robins on a breakaway with a poke check Tucson quickly turned defense into offense Moore fired a low shot that created a dangerous rebound opportunity Tucson’s Maveric Lamoureux and San Jose’s Lucas Vanroboys were both sent to the box leading to two minutes of four-on-four play Sokolov made a terrific backhand pass from below the goal line to Artem Duda in the high slot Duda stepped into the pass and snapped a hard shot that Romanov just managed to get a piece of with his glove Duda had another great look with 2:34 remaining driving into the zone and ripping a wrist shot from the top of the slot but Romanov was there again to make the stop The late push earned Tucson an offensive-zone faceoff prompting the Roadrunners to pull Villalta for the extra attacker San Jose capitalized with back-to-back empty-net goals from White and Cardwell to put the game out of reach Moore responded with a wrist shot from above the left circle in the final seconds but the Barracuda held on for a 5-3 victory San Jose police have served a search warrant on Councilmember Omar Torres on suspicion of child sexual abuse material and underage relationships multiple sources have told San José Spotlight A San Jose Police Department spokesperson confirmed Thursday night that a criminal investigation is underway into a councilmember Two sources told San José Spotlight the nature of the investigation is of a sexual nature and involves minors we do not have more information to provide at this time,” a spokesperson for the police department told San José Spotlight “As the investigation unfolds and new information is discovered SJPD hopes to provide an update at a later date.” Torres’ chief of staff Kiera Arreola was seen crying outside the office on the 18th floor of City Hall according to a San Jose councilmember who asked for anonymity Arreola could not be immediately reached for comment Sources say Torres solicited sexually explicit images of a minor during a trip to Chicago Torres was in the city for the Democratic National Convention in August But another source told San José Spotlight the person involved was 20 years old Calls to Torres’ phone went straight to voicemail He issued a statement from his office late Thursday saying he was “wrongfully detained and questioned” by police detectives and called the accusations “baseless.” Torres said he cooperated with authorities and turned over passwords to his computer because he has nothing to hide He also claimed the investigation is “retaliation” after he filed a police report against someone who was extorting and stalking him “I want to be clear that I am the victim in this matter,” he wrote in a statement on official San Jose letterhead “It’s heartbreaking that my family and myself have to respond to such unfounded and defamatory allegations.” San Jose’s political circles on Thursday were rocked by the accusations with many expressing shock and struggling to understand the situation “Everyone is trying to figure out what’s happening,” San Jose Councilmember Sergio Jimenez told San José Spotlight want a better understanding of what took place we give up our anonymity and privacy — and I just want more information.” Torres — a self-described pragmatic progressive — was elected in 2022 to represent District 3 which encompasses neighborhoods from Vendome and Naglee Park to Japantown and Spartan Keyes It’s also home to San Jose State University and several theaters and music halls I never saw him do anything inappropriate or criminal related,” Councilmember Peter Ortiz told San José Spotlight “There is due process and everybody is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.” Torres was absent from a VTA board meeting he was scheduled to attend Thursday night Contact Brandon Pho at [email protected] or @brandonphooo on X, formerly known as Twitter. Contact Ramona Giwargis at [email protected] or follow @RamonaGiwargis on Twitter The allegations here are shocking to say the least Unfortunately his sterling reputation will be forever tarnished proven innocent or guilty I reserve judgment until all the facts are set forth I pray that these are false allegations especially because it involves minors There had better be JAIL TIME – DEMANDED BY THE MINORITY COMMUNITY IF THIS IS FALSE We know what happens if the opposite is true I am saying that because the Councilman was working for Carrasco at that time I have seen what UNEQUAL Justice does to a family when there is only Partial Justice at CITY HALL and what it does to a family FOR EVER!!!!! I am always open for discussion with my Email below a search warrant would require some level of evidence (if a photo was solicited it will be found – if not already shared by potential victim) – and if there was electronic communications/requests/messages I suspect SJPD already knows if he’s guilty – and is compiling more evidence by accessing devices He should probably be spending all his time with family and friends while he has the freedom before he gets thrown in the slammer for what could amount to the rest of his life Look at his background and what he has supported. https://sanjosespotlight.com/omar-torres-appears-to-win-the-downtown-san-jose-council-race/ And look at downtown San Jose…looks shabby don’t it…except for one area that was given status… I wish to address our community and share some thoughts inspired by our beliefs and values particularly concerning Council-member Torres and the challenges he faces it’s essential to remember the teachings of scripture that guide us towards love Or why do you treat them with contempt” This verse calls us to examine our hearts and motives encouraging us to extend grace and empathy instead of casting judgment Let us come together in prayer for Councilmember Torres “The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.” Our prayers can uplift those struggling fostering an environment where healing and support can thrive let’s embody the spirit of Philippians 4:8 Let’s cultivate a community that reflects the love and kindness we seek in the world.We come before you with heavy hearts lifting up Councilmember Omar Torres in this difficult time We seek your guidance and wisdom as the truth unfolds Let’s be a compassionate and understanding community supporting one another as we navigate these challenges together guard the hearts and minds of our community as we navigate this painful chapter It’s funny how we can forget God and prioritize physical indulgences until we suddenly find ourselves in trouble and need help “There is more joy in heaven over one lost sinner who repents and returns to God than over ninety-nine others who are righteous and haven’t strayed away” I too identify more as the lost sheep than the righteous man and am thankful we have a loving and forgiving God Torres’ more immediate concern likely lies in the hands of 12 mere mortals and possibly a prison system… none of whom are likely to be as forgiving You must be logged in to post a comment 408.206.5327[email protected] you'd have no choice but to label Bruce Arena's San Jose Earthquakes as one of the most aggressive teams during the MLS primary transfer window Even without any last-minute deadline moves Arena was already the league's all-time winningest coach when took the San Jose job over the winter it went without saying that his latest project would not be a long-term build That was re-emphasized when the Quakes made offseason moves for strikers Cristian Arango and Josef Martinez as well as several of Arena's former New England Revolution regulars: midfielders Mark-Anthony Kaye and Ian Harkes Now Arena's Quakes are doubling down on that urgency, according to GiveMeSport's Tom Bogert, with moves for two more players who previously played for the Revs: wingback DeJuan Jones (now of Columbus) and midfielder Noel Buck Jones is far more established at MLS level while Buck -- only 20 -- has considerably more upside Adding both only further cements the Quakes as MLS' most urgent transfer market actor in the 2025 primary window even if they aren't the biggest spending That doesn't necessarily mean they're taking the wisest approach Arena's charges only have 10 points so far from nine matches despite playing six of those nine fixtures at home Four of San Jose's top five minutes earners are age 30 or over as well as six of their most-played starting XI It's probably going to take yet another investment in the squad over the summer to turn San Jose into even a fringe MLS Cup contender the result could be a core that is too old and in need of another overhaul Also according to Bogert San Diego FC is acquiring youth international defender Oscar Verhoeven from the Quakes While the 18-year-old Verhoeven may prove useful for San Diego immediately -- he does have nine career MLS appearances already -- the more important context is what it reflects about Arena and the Quakes in the moment There are only two reasons to part with a player like Verhoeven at his current age profile and meager salary cost: Either there was some personal reason the player wanted out or the team needed to clear roster space to make other moves with a view on immediate results The latter is far more likely given the context of other San Jose moves and speaks to what the Quakes are potentially giving up down the line in exchange for their win-now strategy © 2025 Minute Media - All Rights Reserved Betting and gambling content is intended for individuals 21+ and is based on individual commentators' opinions and not that of 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DeJuan Jones (now of Columbus) and midfielder Noel Buck Also according to Bogert The MLS primary transfer window often ends with a wimper who is continuing to make additions to a Quakes squad that is very obviously in win-now mode The Bay Area’s Bacchus Management Group adds a new restaurant in Silicon Valley's vibrant Santana Row; plus Stephanie Izard and Boka Restaurant Group open Valley Goat in Sunnyvale Who’s behind it: San Francisco’s Bacchus Management Group runs several Bay Area restaurants, including Grand Award winners Spruce and the Village Pub, as well as Best of Award of Excellence winner Selby’s The group has expanded its portfolio with Augustine and the adjoining Cafe Augustine on San Jose’s Santana Row a lively luxury shopping and residential district where Bacchus has operated Pizza Antica for more than 20 years and there are a lot of people who want a diverse assortment of dining options and they're very underserved,” explained Andrew Green president of fine dining and a partner in Bacchus “There’s a tendency in the Bay Area to think that only the best of the best happens in San Francisco there [are] fantastic guests to be had in the South Bay.” The next door Cafe Augustine offers an all-day menu of sandwiches The space’s developer “saw that we have something similar in Woodside “There was a need for the community: a place for them to get a morning coffee or a breakfast sandwich.” The culinary approach: With a “coastal” focus Augustine “celebrates all the good things in California and is built around all the great farmers and products whether it's Don Watson lamb or Zuckerman Farms asparagus,” explained Green Bacchus executive chef and partner Mark Sullivan who is responsible for the culinary programs for all of the group’s restaurants also oversees Augustine’s lunch and dinner menu Italian and other Mediterranean influences adding “punchier” flavors evident in dishes like the harissa-spiced carrots with a warm lentil vinaigrette tzatziki and Medjool dates and the spiced lamb sausage with minted yogurt and black olives Many dishes at Augustine can be shared, like the savory Dungeness crab donuts or the grilled flatbread with muhammara A weekend brunch menu offers plates like French toast with whipped ricotta and Tonka beans and a smoked salmon tartine with cream cheese and pickled red onion "We're pouring two different wines by the glass from the Peloponnese in Greece; we're doing Assyrtiko and Agiorgitiko at a really good price," Pinedo added A 50-bottle reserve list features selections like Domaine Leflaive Meursault Sous Le Dos d’Ane, Masseto Toscana and Bond Pluribus Napa Valley Bacchus founding partner and president Tim Stannard collaborated with Steven Brady of Stephen Boyd Brady Design who fashioned the looks of Bacchus's other restaurants They created a space Green calls “luxurious clean and not too overdressed.” A covered patio leads to the entrance which features a horseshoe-shaped marble bar flanked by a lounge and an intimate main dining room seating 38 Shades of blue complement the light-hued French oak floors including vintage pieces and commissioned paintings “It’s [a] place where people can feel luxurious if they want to yet can also come in wearing a t-shirt and sneakers and not feel out of place,” said Green.—Aaron Romano Who’s behind it: The owners of Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence winner Swift & Sons in Chicago—Stephanie Izard and Boka Restaurant Group—opened Valley Goat at the new Treehouse Hotel Silicon Valley in Sunnyvale The group also owns well-known Chicago restaurants like Girl & the Goat and Cabra "It’s been so fun spending more time in Silicon Valley,” said Izard in a statement welcoming community and so much more have made the area one of my new favorite spots to be!” The culinary approach: Izard’s menu focuses on Northern Californian ingredients for dishes like the spicy hand roll with tuna chile and sesame; the biscuits with chile crunch and pimento cheese; and the roasted oysters with sausage butter Well-known Izard dishes like goat empanadas and a sticky pork shank with pita are also featured The design: Intended to offer a casual dining experience the 250-seat Valley Goat is set in a sundrenched space and features a sizable outdoor patio Looking ahead: Boka will be opening Elliott Aster Keep up with the latest restaurant news from our award winners: Subscribe to our free Private Guide to Dining newsletter! Consumers got the chance to taste dozens of outstanding wines in Chicago, with upcoming … The owner of Stoller and Chehalem wineries was devoted to the future of Willamette Valley … Inside the first U.S. location of the French luxury retailer, guests can enjoy fine wine at … Phase one of the Viticulture and Winery Technology program’s new home, funded by a $10 … The Tuscan wine company has purchased a minority stake in Tenute delle Terre Nere; De … While the White House has paused tariffs on foreign wines at 10 percent for now, the trade … the San Jose Giants and the Oakland Ballers will write a new chapter in the storied history of Bay Area baseball matchups Coined as “Battle of the Bay 2.0” the two organizations will play an exhibition game at San Jose’s Excite Ballpark as part of the two organizations will play an exhibition game at San Jose’s Excite Ballpark as part of the Giants’ Minor League Spring Training schedule with first pitch at 6 PM on April 2 Tickets are now on sale at sjgiants.com with broadcast details to be announced in the coming weeks “The Battle of the Bay 2.0 at its core is a celebration of the Bay Area baseball fan and the history of baseball in this region,” said San Jose Giants President “Providing fans the opportunity to enjoy this first-of-its-kind matchup while giving young developing players the chance to play in front of an energized Excite Ballpark crowd is going to be an unforgettable experience It is my sincere hope that alongside the Ballers this is the beginning of a new annual baseball tradition for our region.” History will be written at the formerly known Municipal Stadium which opened in 1942 as the matchup represents the first time an Affiliated Franchise (San Jose Giants) takes on an MLB Partner League team (Oakland Ballers) Both teams are coming off trips to their respective league postseasons in 2024 with RHP Elijah Pleasants spending time on both rosters after the San Francisco Giants signed Pleasants from the Ballers in June and assigned him to San Jose “This history-making Battle of the Bay 2.0 exhibition will help grow the game in our region and shine a light on the up-and-coming players in our respective organizations,” said Ballers EVP of Baseball Operations Don Wakamatsu “The Ballers are committed to developing homegrown talent and cultivating baseball excellence in Oakland and the greater Bay Area and we appreciate Major League Baseball and the Pioneer Baseball League for coming together to make this happen.” Roster information for both teams will be announced in the days leading up to the event as well as contests and promotions between the two organizations to allow fans to engage in the fun prior to and during the game The contest will be a nine (9) inning game and be played using standard MLB rules and guidelines I am thrilled to have our Oakland Ballers take on the San Jose Giants in a pre-season exhibition game,” said Pioneer League President Michael Shapiro “In the grand tradition of the Bay Bridge Series this game affords two great cities – San Jose and Oakland – the opportunity to celebrate the joy of minor league baseball in the Bay Area.” Following the exhibition against the Ballers, the San Jose Giants 2025 Opening Night is set for Tuesday, April 8 at Excite Ballpark against the Visalia Rawhide. For more information on Tickets call 408.297.1435, visit the Excite Ballpark Box Office or log on to sjgiants.com Texas -- Dallas Stars General Manager Jim Nill announced today that the club has acquired forward Mikael Granlund and defenseman Cody Ceci from the San Jose Sharks in exchange for Dallas’ first-round pick in the 2025 NHL Draft and a conditional third-round pick in the 2025 NHL Draft The conditional pick is Winnipeg’s fourth-round selection in the 2025 NHL Draft (acquired via a trade with San Jose on June 19 2024) and will upgrade to Dallas’ third-round selection in the 2025 NHL Draft if the Stars make the 2025 Stanley Cup Final “We are excited to welcome both Mikael and Cody to Dallas,” said Nill “We see both players as addressing immediate needs for our team — Mikael is a proven scorer who will bolster our forward group at both even strength and on the power play and Cody will add a stabilizing and physical presence to our blueline Both players will bring valuable postseason experience to our group and we are looking forward to seeing their contributions to the Stars as the season continues.” has recorded 45 points (15-30—45) in 52 regular-season contests with San Jose during the 2024-25 campaign ranking first on the club in points (45) and assists (30) while he is tied for first with five power play goals and paces all forwards in time on ice per game (TOI/G) with 20:51 The 13-year NHL veteran has amassed 589 points (172-417—589) in 871 career regular-season contests with Minnesota ranking fourth in career scoring among active He has made nine appearances in the Stanley Cup Playoffs has recorded 15 points (4-11—15) in 54 regular-season contests with the Sharks this season He ranks first on the club in TOI with 1175:41 and is tied for second with two game-winning goals he ranks second in points (15) and assists (11) and is tied for third in goals (4) he has recorded 226 points (52-174—226) and skated in 840 regular-season contests with Ottawa The right-shot defenseman has appeared in the postseason on seven occasions amassing 19 points (4-15—19) in 88 Stanley Cup Playoff games was originally selected by Ottawa in the first round (15th overall) of the 2012 NHL Draft Ceci represented his home country at the 2016 IIHF World Championship winning a gold medal after totaling six points (1-5—6) in 10 tournament games Game #58: Tucson Roadrunners (27-25-3-2) vs San Jose Barracuda (29-20-4-3) The Tucson Roadrunners (27-25-3-2) open a pivotal two-game weekend series against the San Jose Barracuda (29-20-4-3) on Saturday at 7 p.m The series finale is set for Sunday afternoon at 4 p.m marking the final regular-season meeting between the two Pacific Division rivals The Roadrunners enter the weekend looking to snap a three-game losing streak following back-to-back 4-2 losses to the Ontario Reign on Tuesday and Wednesday winning five of six games and securing a season-high six-game point streak from Feb could be the perfect opponent for Tucson to regain their momentum The Roadrunners halted their previous season-high eight-game losing streak with a 4-3 win over the Barracuda on Feb with San Jose taking the rematch the following night leaving the season series even at 1-1 heading into this weekend’s matchup Saturday marks their first meeting at Tucson Arena this season and the series carries major playoff implications in a tight Pacific Division race Tucson currently holds the final postseason spot in seventh place with 59 points sitting just two points ahead of eighth-place Bakersfield and six points back of San Jose tied with fifth-place Abbotsford at 65 points are looking to create separation from the pack while Tucson aims to climb the standings and strengthen its postseason position just his presence out there…he’s obviously really tough I’m so happy to be able to see him get a couple there He’s been playing really good these past two games and I’m happy he finally got rewarded there.” 4 – Forward Sammy Walker leads the Roadrunners with four points (2G 2A) against the Barracuda this season—all recorded in a single game during Tucson’s February win over San Jose His four-point performance remains the team’s season-high for points in a game and came in his Roadrunners debut after being acquired from the Iowa Wild Walker’s explosive first game in Tucson made for one of the most memorable debuts in franchise history We’re off and running on MLS’s 30th season we had First Kick fireworks (I will always call Matchday 1 “First Kick”); as usual that was followed by a much more cagey and conservative display on Matchday 2 with most managers around the league adjusting their risk sliders to prevent another torrent of goals The first two weeks of the season follow that pattern almost every single year and it’s kind of comforting that 2025 has been no different who cost $3 million and takes up a U22 Initiative slot They spent a lot of money on Tim Ream to make him a left back. They spent a lot of money on Bill Tuiloma to make him a reserve. And the DP hit rate… coming into this season, with apologies to Liel Abada (who might still turn out to be good but has been just an average MLS attacker so far) Charlotte’s hit rate on DP signings was effectively zero Enter Wilfried Zaha. He was invisible in the first half of the game, but then stole the show in the second half for the 2-0 win over Atlanta United: A game of cat-and-mouse in the first half turned into the Wilfried Zaha show in the second, and Charlotte's new DP left a hell of an impression in his MLS debut. pic.twitter.com/V3k82nTFLP Zaha was as advertised: a guy with the tools and talent to be one of the very best attackers in this league I honestly can’t imagine him not succeeding here this felt like a typical Charlotte win – only moreso because of the top-end talent they finally have in attack And a “typical Charlotte win” means they traded both possession and field position for space to counter into so he did the same stuff they’ve always done just a good bit better than they’ve ever done it before “He’s the type of player we were missing last season for sure,” head coach Dean Smith said afterward “We’ve seen in one performance today he can produce moments of magic.” Here is the next step for the Crown: I need to see them produce those moments of magic in different phases of play. Right now it’s still counter-and-set-pieces, even with Zaha (who is much more than just a runner) on the field and Pep Biel playing as a true No I was having this conversation with Andrew Wiebe who argued that Zaha’s presence alone is enough “They’ve never had a guy who CONSISTENTLY does those basic Charlotte things at this level If he’s consistently a guy who just makes two high-level plays per game in the final third I need to see more variation in how they create danger before I’m completely bought in on this team jumping a level to join the true contenders By the way, Atlanta left money on the table here as they were the better team in the first half. But they couldn’t make it count as Emmanuel Latte Lath was non-existent which can happen to any forward who’s reliant upon service They need to figure out how to get him into good spots against a low block Which brings us to the elephant in the room: Alexey Miranchuk once again struggled to impose himself on the game We’re now up to a 16-game sample size with the Five Stripes and it’s pretty clear that if he’s not getting room to hit through-balls Six points from two games. Bruce Arena has clearly worked some magic with the San Jose Earthquakes I can’t quite bring myself to read too much into it because of the quality of competition San Jose have faced over these two games: RSL and Sporting were both coming off of midweek Concacaf Champions Cup action and I’ve got both teams pegged for finishing in the bottom third of the Western Conference San Jose haven’t exactly encountered prime Barça out there Leroux (34) sits and protects the three center backs. Jamar Ricketts (another surprise contributor) at left wingback has the speed and endurance to go endline-to-endline all game, and so plays a little deeper than Cristian Espinoza who’s more of a pure attacker at right wingback “The soccer wasn’t delightful on our end in the second half due to the fact that we were playing shorthanded but the determination the guys had and the defensive mentality was outstanding,” Arena said in the post-game “I thought our last 10-15 minutes was extremely good defensively and hopefully in another week we can eliminate some of those.” Sporting boss Peter Vermes needs some of that from his squad which looked a little worn out given they’ve played four games in 11 days to start the season perhaps some of the cohesiveness they need to begin creating some danger “Let's say that the team is new and we need to make the connections. It will take some time, but I think that we should take that as soon as possible,” is how DP forward Dejan Joveljić who scored his first goal for his new club We need to start taking the points as soon as possible 13. The Philadelphia Union look unstoppable. They went down to Florida last week and hung four on an Orlando City side that’s in some amount of flux after rebuilding a bit of their central midfield, and while playing without their best (BY FAR) center back. The Union blitzed ‘em and it worked Matchday 2, at home, against a Cincy side everybody thinks will be in the Shield race all year? Four more goals, and an almost comically dominant 4-1 win: The Union attack, though two games, has been devastating. The ability of the forwards to work together – to create time and space for one another – is why. pic.twitter.com/vC11urgVJo Folks, that’s a trend. The forwards have been amazing, and Quinn Sullivan’s leveled up on the ball (his turn in midfield to start this sequence rolling downhill is excellent) but I’m pretty sure that’s a trade-off they’re willing to make it’s produced 180 minutes of must-watch soccer But two more midweek matches over the next two weeks (they have a CCC home-and-home with Tigres) will take a lot out of them Notable from RSL’s perspective: Diego Luna has spent most of his time in MLS – like 95% of it – as a sort of false left winger in Pablo Mastroeni’s 4-2-3-1 this was an advertisement for how hard it is to balance CCC with regular-season play This was not the beautiful game from either side but this lack of urgency at the end was bad: Seattle wingers Pedro de la Vega and Paul Arriola did their jobs once they came on – some textbook combo play out wide.But where was the off-ball work in the box? Really weird late performance from the Sounders in Utah. pic.twitter.com/FdprTvXeIb 11. The Red Bulls jumped all over Nashville from the start in a 2-0 win Special Armchair Analyst Correspondent Calen Carr was the man on the scene: Knew where we played and still didn't show up, huh? https://t.co/t1y60snvIg 10. Speaking of those Revs, they were held to just five shots with a grand total of 0.2 xG as the Crew left Foxborough with all three points thanks to Jacen Russell-Rowe’s second goal of the season. It was a 1-0 final Caleb Porter gave us our Face of the Week: Face of the Week, I reckon. pic.twitter.com/XFAyozKKjV New England spent a lot of money this winter to put together what’s basically a whole new team and thus far the lack of chemistry is pretty apparent lost two of their starting attackers from last year’s team (including the guy I voted as league MVP) but their chemistry through midfield and at the back is still intact Cesar Araujo gave Arsenal loanee Zane Monlouis a lesson on how *not* to read a midfielder's eyes in Orlando City's win on Saturday night. pic.twitter.com/ycX5Y72uXO (Note: Monlouis is actually not on loan, but was a permanent acquisition by TFC) The good news for Orlando: Four goals (they won 4-2) and they were just clearly the better team I’ll be kind and say it’s a work in progress It’s not the structural stuff that’s killed the Fire through two games, though: It’s the simple execution stuff. They went down 1-0, then fought back to take a 2-1 lead, and couldn't lock it down even before Jacob Murrell scored what might be the AT&T Goal of the Year “I think we could have been much better toward the end of the game – just being calm being hard to break through centrally and then defending crosses,” head coach Gregg Berhalter said afterward “And you saw a number of crosses that they got on the end of deserve a ton of credit for how hard they play and how much pressure they put Chicago under all night 7. Portland and Austin looked headed for a stalemate right up until the 89th minute, when new DP David Da Costa put in a perfect ball: Take it yourself, David Da Costa 😲@TimbersFC take the lead in the 89th minute. pic.twitter.com/KCh4c9Wkdb That was the only goal, as it ended 1-0. Just a nightmare for any goalkeeper. Poor Brad Stuver For Portland the early returns on Da Costa are very promising as he’s been active (on both sides of the ball crucially) and clearly has that final ball in him (early days but he’s among the league leaders in xA/90) For Austin… they sure seem to need a guy like that. Obviously early days with this team as well (Myrto Uzuni isn’t starting quite yet) but through two games the midfield has looked functional rather than creative through 180 minutes they’ve got zero open-play goals and zero players in the top 50 in the league in any of the relevant chance creation stats Uzuni’s not going to help that directly – he’s a goalscorer, not a chance creator – but in theory his movement and the threat he presents both in behind, and in running off of Brandon Vazquez, should open up more space for the likes of Dani Pereira in the middle 6. Minnesota United’s social media team has been cooking all year, and while I don’t usually weigh in on officiating decisions in this space (the call is the call, man), I’ll say that I, too, thought this was a DOGSO red and that I, too, thought “ball don’t lie” when Kelvin Yeboah scored the game’s only goal five minutes later: Karma is this Kelvin goal pic.twitter.com/Vcp84GgPCt 5. I don’t know if I can do justice to Colorado’s 3-3 home draw with FC Dallas Lucho scores his first for Dallas! 🚨 pic.twitter.com/ZiemBvwEmO That goal is both a special play and one that’s emblematic of who Dallas are quickly evolving into. Fully 33% of their passes into the final third, and 33% of their passes into the box, came from that central channel (s/o MLS Analytics on BlueSky for the data) playing off a center forward who knows how to combine with back-to-goal he’s almost impossible to contain (The issue is keeping him in that central channel – Lucho will wander if he’s not getting enough touches and that kind of wandering is not good for the team’s overall structure) For Colorado… Djordje Mihailovic as a playmaking left winger and Cole Bassett as a pressing 10 This will become even more effective once they have an actual left back to provide width when Djordje pinches inside 4. I feel like I’ve seen Ryan Hollingshead rescue all three points for LAFC with an opportunistic late goal my entire life, which is to say that Saturday night’s 1-0 win over visiting New York City FC gave me some serious déjà vu The Black & Gold went to the 5-2-3 from the start for the first time all year, and effectively deadened the game. As for the Pigeons, I’m not sure why manager Pascal Jansen chose to start center forward Mounsef Bakrar on the left wing San Diego – I’ve decided I’m calling them the Niños, btw – were once again exceptionally compact, looked very well-coached, and looked like they were missing a bit of creative magic in midfield. That issue was compounded by the early injury to Chucky As for St. Louis, they’ll need to show better than this next week for a Sunday Night Soccer trip to Carson to face the Galaxy: I thought it was a weirdly timid performance from St. Louis in San Diego. And then when they did take risks, they really weren't well-measured. pic.twitter.com/GTrUK9wasp 2. Of course, it won’t be a full-strength Galaxy St. Louis are facing. Following injuries to Emiro Garcés and Lucas Sanabria in Sunday evening’s 2-1 loss at Vancouver We know those first two guys are out for a while We don’t know the status of any of the next five for next weekend and while it’s too soon for panic for the reigning MLS Cup champs Not so for the ‘Caps, who got an early goal from Sam Adekugbe (who later went off injured, and yeah that’s a concern because the attacking width he’s offered on the overlap makes it much easier for Ryan Gauld to be influential) and a late winner from Brian White Early returns on the ‘Caps under new head coach Jesper Sørensen: They’re playing more with the ball through central midfield and the center backs are being asked to be more adventurous with their distribution and their ball-carrying And – this is key – he’s been more willing to play some of the younger guys 1. And finally, Sacha Kljestan made the point at halftime of Inter Miami’s 4-1 destruction of Houston that while you lose so, so much without Lionel Messi you actually gain quite a bit against the ball And Herons head coach Javier Mascherano, to his credit, weaponized that by adding two worker bees (Yannick Bright and Benja Cremaschi) to the XI and then having the front line press higher They knew the Dynamo would commit to playing out of the back and knew they could change the game by causing turnovers in bad spots Within five-and-a-half minutes, Cremaschi’s pressure led to Miami’s first goal. Just before halftime, Bright’s pressure led to their third. In between Tadeo Allende scored a banger and Houston never really took control of the game or threatened much at all. By the time it was all said and done, Luis Suárez had a goal and three one-touch assists but it looked more like the playbook from his Atleti days than his Barça time but Miami’s better than they were last year Few people have witnessed the growth of MLS like Bruce Arena The most accomplished coach in MLS history, Arena has been involved since the ground floor, coaching in the league's inaugural match on April 6, 1996, when his D.C. United took on the San Jose Clash Three decades later, Arena is on the other side in his first season coaching the Earthquakes, who welcome D.C. to PayPal Park on Sunday afternoon (5 pm ET | MLS Season Pass, Apple TV+) and a lot of people not knowing what the heck they were doing it was hectic," Arena told reporters this week but I don’t think we had a team ready to play And I think the team that played on April 6 was much different than the team that played in the MLS Cup final Those early days laid the foundation for the growth to come which has seen the league expand to 30 clubs and the sport experience a surge in popularity in the region and the goal was to really elevate the sport in our country and I think 30 years later we’ve done that "We’ve certainly grown considerably," the four-time MLS Coach of the Year added "We will be hosting a World Cup now in 2026 so that shows the global view of the sport in this country Mexico and Canada – that the sport has arrived in our region 1996. Bruce Arena in Year 1️⃣Coaching for the first time at Spartan Stadium in San Jose with @usmnt legend @TMeola1 next to him. 📸: @TonyQuinnPhotog / D.C. United pic.twitter.com/Mn0JovPF8D The improved quality of play since those humbling beginnings has also been notable, Arena said, as high-level talent moves stateside with increasing regularity. Arena cited the arrival of Inter Miami CF's Lionel Messi as one clear example "Everyone’s a little bit better than they were in ‘96," Arena quipped "The quality of the league is much improved some good players and one of the best players in the history of the game playing in our league So there’s a lot of positives over the last 30 years." Arena doesn't lose sight of the full-circle moment he'll experience in Matchday 7 "It's been a privilege to be part of this," the five-time MLS Cup champion said It's been a great experience for me to be part of that "I'm happy to still be around 30 years later but hopefully a little bit longer as well." Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker When it comes to Northern California’s largest public hospital system Santa Clara County leaders fear they’re building a sandcastle at low tide The county’s largest stream of federal money and funding source for its public hospitals will be washed away if Congress follows through on its proposed $880 billion in spending cuts to Medicaid The decision threatens to undo decades of progress made to ensure the region’s poorest residents get the health care they need This comes as county officials work to expand the system significantly the task of absorbing an even worse budget crisis than the pandemic would fall on County Executive James Williams who promises the restoration of Regional Medical Center will happen on April 1 no matter what “It’s the right thing to do for the community,” Williams told San José Spotlight “The real issue is not about Regional or any other specific hospital Medi-Cal represents roughly $1.9 billion in funding received by Santa Clara County this year alone The county receives that money through Medi-Cal reimbursements for patient care at county hospitals from its $12 billion budget to run the hospitals Half of the county hospital system’s patients pay through Medi-Cal The rest pay through a mix of other means and Medicare a separate federal program serving patients 65 and older and patients of all ages with certain disabilities “The health of the entire system and therefore the health and well-being of every family in the county is in jeopardy,” Williams told San José Spotlight Community outcry over HCA’s downgrades at Regional highlighted the chaos unfolding in the county’s public hospital waiting rooms County doctors at public hearings last year protested HCA’s cuts over fears it would send a deluge of patients to their already overburdened emergency departments The county’s restoration of Regional’s trauma services are expected to alleviate those fears an emergency department nurse at Valley Medical Center said long-term federal budget cuts could bring those threats right back around County officials warn they could easily find themselves $100 million to $500 million short next fiscal year as a result of congressional spending decisions The following year would likely get even worse as the gap between costs and revenues continues to widen Bob Brownstein, a strategic advisor with Working Partnerships USA who helped coordinate Medi-Cal patient enrollment outreach for the county last year said the thought of relying on philanthropy for public hospital care brings him chills But he said he’s already having those conversations with the Valley Health Foundation — the county hospitals’ fundraising arm “We’re talking about philanthropy on a scale that’s never been attempted before There’s massive uncertainty as to what could actually be accomplished,” Brownstein told San José Spotlight the prevention of human suffering on a massive scale.” Contact Brandon Pho at [email protected] or @brandonphooo on X What I saw reported was that the entire $8 billion state budget deficit remaining was entirely comprised of payments for healthcare for illegal aliens there may very well be another solution to the funding problem people who actually contribute to the community when all we need to do to actually be in the green is tax the rich their fair share I’m not even talking about millionaires because we know 1 million is nothing in the bay area Tax the ultra wealthy and corporations the fair share and we would all not even have to worry about any of this Tired of the lies corporate America has spread about universal rights as a human being insinuating that receiving healthcare and being fed basic food requires 2 full-time jobs Hopefully a second news outlet can confirm this It should be abundantly clear by now that the next decade of Trump/GOP/MAGA misrule is going to destroy the quality of life of most US citizens Grown-ups must await the “hits” that come and respond to them as they arrive 2026 constitutes an opportunity for reform “Just Vote D,” and the same in 2028 at least with the White House Both sets of elections already have been well-known since the first week of Trump in office with Musk and his minions doing their damage and worse as referenda on Trump and Musk and Vance and Bessent and Hassett (replacing the income tax with tariffs) et al The Dems will misinterpreted brakes on and rejection of Trump as a “mandate” and overdo it again but it’s expected already and acknowledged as the cost of stopping ineptitude and worse and MAGA are to a large extent one and the same since the GOP and at least some of the think tanks on the conservative side were evacuated by conventional persons and filled with these Trump loyalists and related types You must be logged in to post a comment 408.206.5327[email protected]