Glass ceiling: Asian Americans still under-represented in Silicon Valley leadership
Source: San Jose Mercury News
San Jose :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-04-24 18:22:45 -0700 | your-story
But we put these same questions to leaders including CEO Meg Whitman, CEO Tim Cook and COO Sandberg, whose Silicon Valley workforce in HP, Apple and Facebook is largely Asian American but whose leadership teams posted on their web sites...
Mercury News editorial: San Jose voted for public arbitration, so residents should show up
Source: San Jose Mercury News
San Jose :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-04-24 14:57:38 -0700 | your-story
Part of the reason for San Jose's unfunded liability for pensions and retiree health care, now $2.9 billion combined, is that firefighters won retroactive benefits in binding arbitration that neither the city nor the employees had been paying for. Other...
Mercury News editorial: Cybersecurity bill tramples on Fourth Amendment rights
Source: San Jose Mercury News
San Jose :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-04-23 14:11:21 -0700 | your-story
It's too bad that the House of Representatives didn't listen to them...The House last week voted 287-127 for this legislation, which gives the government easier access to data from Internet companies. The intent is to help protect tech firms such...
April 23 Readers' letters: The trivialization of rape, gun control and Boy Scout policy
Source: San Jose Mercury News
San Jose :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-04-22 19:54:35 -0700 | your-story
Knost, author of parenting and children's books, "It's not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It's our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless."...
April 21 Readers' letters: Payday loans, gun control and the doctor shortage
Source: San Jose Mercury News
San Jose :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-04-20 18:02:39 -0700 | your-story
So much so that three recent bills would allow nonphysicians, such as pharmacists, to practice medicine. While this solution is certainly outside the box, it compromises both quality of care and patient safety. Nurse practitioners, optometrists and pharmacists are an...
April 19 Readers' letters: The Senate vote on background checks and the Audrie Pott tragedy
Source: San Jose Mercury News
San Jose :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-04-18 20:18:29 -0700 | your-story
Every poll says the American public overwhelmingly believes background checks should be strengthened. Putting the interests of a small minority of NRA backed wing nuts and a $32 billion gun industry and ignoring the ''well regulated" clause of the Second...
Paul Fong and Mayra Cruz: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders left out of immigration debate
Source: San Jose Mercury News
San Jose :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-04-18 13:24:29 -0700 | your-story
This means that more than 10 percent of this community is undocumented. Last November, 73 percent of Asian Americans voters voted to re-elect President Barack Obama, a record turn-out that reiterated the demand for prioritizing immigration reform. However, Asian Americans...
April 18 Readers' letters: The stigma of sexual assault, the immigration bill and Silicon Valley ...
Source: San Jose Mercury News
San Jose :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-04-17 20:32:07 -0700 | your-story
Shame on the parents who don't know their 15-year-old children are abusing alcohol. Shame on the parents who don't know where their children are at night. Shame on the parents who leave their 15-year-old children alone at home for the...
Herhold: A night of crime on San Jose's Trevor Drive
Source: San Jose Mercury News
San Jose :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-04-17 13:25:10 -0700 | your-story
So when a bad guy broke into five cars on the street in a single night -- very early one morning in late March -- the tremors coursed through the neighborhood quickly. Everyone soon learned that Misti Prado lost five...
Mercury News editorial: Audrie Pott case shows stigma of sexual assault still deeply ingrained in ...
Source: San Jose Mercury News
San Jose :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-04-16 20:50:03 -0700 | your-story
Whatever the outcome of court cases, the family has done a great service to this community and to the nation. Bringing Audrie's beautiful face and tragic story out of the shadows, they force the rest of us to confront behavioral...
Teach for America: California schools need their talent
Source: San Jose Mercury News
San Jose :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-04-15 18:20:54 -0700 | your-story
As the superintendent of East Side Union High School District, it is my privilege and duty to support my principals and teachers in creating learning environments that allow our students, many of whom are English Learners, to uncover their potential...
Mercury News editorial: Approve Signature plan for San Jose Mineta airport
Source: San Jose Mercury News
San Jose :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-04-15 19:17:44 -0700 | your-story
a condition endemic to neighbors of San Jose Mineta International Airport -- delayed last week's city council decision on a contract with Signature Flight Support, the company that plans to lease airport land for 50 years and invest $82 million...
April 16 Readers' letters: High-speed rail, teaching empathy to our youth and the future of CEQA
Source: San Jose Mercury News
San Jose :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-04-15 15:37:01 -0700 | your-story
04/15/2013 02:56:12 PM PDT Route high-priced train to Reno, please I just finished my taxes and have finally decided to support Gov. Jerry Brown's high-speed rail (HSR) initiative if he just makes one small change.
Mercury News editorial: CalPERS needs to get real about paying for pensions
Source: San Jose Mercury News
San Jose :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-04-15 11:00:36 -0700 | your-story
04/15/2013 10:31:36 AM PDT For pension plans to work, the promised benefit levels must be affordable and the accounting practices and actuarial assumptions must be reasonable. Retirement systems for most California government workers violate both principles, promising overly generous payouts...
Good vs. Evil Tour Report: Bourdain and Ripert Make Fun of Each Other
Source: KQED
San Jose :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-04-14 23:48:14 -0700 | your-story
Evil Anthony Bourdain and Eric Ripert took to a San Francisco stage on Friday night, where they made fun of each other and riffed on everything from hipsters to Mission Chinese Food to Paula Deensome familiar territory with new culinary...
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