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One South Market High-Rise Groundbreaking Press Coverage
I’m very proud to have helped make this happen-a great project and 500 new jobs. Thank you to everyone who is working to move San Jose forward! Check out the video and click here to read the full story below from NBC Bay Area.
The San Jose skyline is about to change forever.
Crews broke ground Tuesday morning on a 23-story residential high-rise building downtown at the corner of Market and Santa Clara streets.
San Jose City Councilman Sam Liccardo said this is going to be a big summer for downtown San Jose. For the first time in five years there will be cranes reshaping the city skyline, putting up new skyscrapers.
San Jose Mayor ...
NPR Interview
In case you missed it, I was on NPR last Friday to discuss the City of San Jose’s lawsuit to bring the A’s to San Jose with Dave Iverson. You can listen to the full piece here.
Sam Liccardo and Gary Kremen: Netroots Nation can inspire change in San Jose where it matters most: between elections
This weekend 5,000 of America’s most wired citizens will descend upon San Jose for the annual Netroots Nation convention. City halls throughout the country have much to learn from their online political activism, because engaging people through technology can transform how local governments serve their residents.
San Jose should lead this movement. To do so, we need to embrace online innovation well beyond “version 1.0″ mobile applications for reporting graffiti and potholes. We have to unveil government-held data to the public, exposing how, where and why City Hall does what it does. In cities throughout the world, “open data...
Why Silicon Valley Must Remind Washington D.C. to Focus on the Important, Not merely the Urgent
The following op-ed appears in this morning’s edition of the Mercury News:
By Sam Liccardo and Carl Guardino
Our focus on The Important cannot succumb to the tyranny of The Urgent.
For the next several weeks, Congress and the White House will become consumed by The Urgent: a self-inflicted wound known as the “Fiscal Cliff.” While critical, we cannot allow our leaders to lose focus through the haze of budgetary battles on their most important task: Helping 19 million unemployed Americans—and thousands of our neighbors–get back to work.
Regrettably, despite persistently high unemployment, the issues most critical to creating ...