https://vietvalley.com Vietnamese News, Culture & Life in San Jose Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:30:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://vietvalley.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/cropped-512x512_full_white_png-32x32.png https://vietvalley.com 32 32 https://vietvalley.com/peter-ortiz-ahead-in-early-results-for-san-jose-district-5-race/ Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:30:19 +0000 https://vietvalley.com/peter-ortiz-ahead-in-early-results-for-san-jose-district-5-race/ Early results show incumbent Councilmember Peter Ortiz leading the pack of candidates seeking the District 5 seat to represent East San Jose on the City Council. As of 8 p.m. Tuesday, Ortiz is ahead with 44.9% of the vote or 2,717 votes while Vietnamese-language television journalist Vy Dang follows in second with just more than …]]> https://vietvalley.com/bien-doan-leads-in-san-jose-district-7-council-race/ Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:30:18 +0000 https://vietvalley.com/bien-doan-leads-in-san-jose-district-7-council-race/ Early election night results show San Jose District 7 Councilmember Bien Doan with a commanding lead in the race for the District 7 seat on the San Jose City Council. As of 8:10 p.m. Tuesday, Doan has 49.5% of the vote or 2,966 votes, followed by Van Le, an East Side Union High School District …]]> https://vietvalley.com/early-results-show-san-jose-mayor-trailing-in-race-for-governor/ Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:30:16 +0000 https://vietvalley.com/early-results-show-san-jose-mayor-trailing-in-race-for-governor/ Early election night results show San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan well behind the frontrunners in the race for California governor. As of 9 p.m. Tuesday, Mahan is in sixth place with 4.4% or 145,511 votes, trailing former U.S. Sectretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra in first place with 26.1% or 863,917 votes, conservative …]]> https://vietvalley.com/genny-altwer-out-to-early-lead-in-san-jose-district-9-race/ Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:30:15 +0000 https://vietvalley.com/genny-altwer-out-to-early-lead-in-san-jose-district-9-race/ As the ballots pour in, Genny Altwer has emerged as the frontrunner for the San Jose District 9 City Council race, the city’s only open contest this election cycle. As of 8:10 p.m. Tuesday, Altwer has 2,734 votes or 30.4%. Scott Hughes, chief of staff for Councilmember Pam Foley, is in second place with 21.6% …]]> https://vietvalley.com/sylvia-arenas-ahead-in-early-results-for-south-county-contest/ Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:30:10 +0000 https://vietvalley.com/sylvia-arenas-ahead-in-early-results-for-south-county-contest/ Early results show District 1 Santa Clara County Supervisor Sylvia Arenas comfortably fending off a challenger to hold onto her agricultural South County seat. As of 9:12 p.m. Tuesday, Arenas is leading with 62.9% of the vote or 21,900 votes. Morgan Hill Unified School District board member Rebecca Munson is in second with 37% of …]]> https://vietvalley.com/thousands-to-lose-medi-cal-and-food-aid-in-santa-clara-county/ Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:30:03 +0000 https://vietvalley.com/thousands-to-lose-medi-cal-and-food-aid-in-santa-clara-county/ New rules and work requirements for Medi-Cal and food stamps imposed by the federal government could strip benefits from thousands of people in Santa Clara County. As of Monday, work requirements for people receiving food stamps, known as CalFresh in California, have expanded to include adults ages 18 to 64, raising it from the prior …]]> https://vietvalley.com/san-jose-may-rethink-voting-method-for-special-elections/ Sat, 30 May 2026 17:30:09 +0000 https://vietvalley.com/san-jose-may-rethink-voting-method-for-special-elections/ San Jose is taking another look at ranked choice voting after the City Council rejected a proposal to adopt the idea in city elections four years ago. Amid concerns over the spiraling costs from special elections, councilmembers are considering a charter amendment that would give the city the option to use ranked choice voting in …]]> https://vietvalley.com/burned-east-san-jose-youth-center-could-be-rebuilt/ Fri, 29 May 2026 22:30:16 +0000 https://vietvalley.com/burned-east-san-jose-youth-center-could-be-rebuilt/ An East San Jose youth center that burned to the ground last year has only made the community more determined to raise it from the ashes. The Alum Rock Union School District board of trustees on Thursday voted 4-1 to enter an exclusive negotiating agreement with SOMOS Mayfair and the School of Arts and Culture, …]]> https://vietvalley.com/east-san-jose-neighborhood-hit-by-stray-golf-balls/ Thu, 28 May 2026 15:54:22 +0000 https://vietvalley.com/east-san-jose-neighborhood-hit-by-stray-golf-balls/ For residents living next to Rancho del Pueblo Golf Course in East San Jose, errant golf balls flying over the course’s catch nets and into the surrounding neighborhoods is a fact of life. “I kept the basket on my patio, so when the golf balls came through, I collected them,” Donnette, a resident living in …]]> https://vietvalley.com/san-jose-council-candidates-raise-funds-ahead-of-election/ Wed, 27 May 2026 17:30:06 +0000 https://vietvalley.com/san-jose-council-candidates-raise-funds-ahead-of-election/ The latest round of campaign finance filings for the 2026 election cycle show money pouring into San Jose’s three competitive City Council races. In each case, a clear fundraising frontrunner has emerged. This cycle, the city is holding elections in its five odd-numbered council districts, though the incumbents in District 1 and 3 — Councilmembers …]]> https://vietvalley.com/will-bay-area-transit-tax-measure-qualify-for-november-ballot/ Wed, 27 May 2026 00:30:12 +0000 https://vietvalley.com/will-bay-area-transit-tax-measure-qualify-for-november-ballot/ Transit advocates say they’ve surpassed their signature-gathering goal to put a sales tax on the November ballot, which would raise $1 billion annually for public transit service across five Bay Area counties and could save some stations from closure. Representatives for the Connect Bay Area campaign on Tuesday said canvassers gathered nearly 306,000 signatures — roughly 120,000 …]]> https://vietvalley.com/santa-clara-county-faces-200m-losses-in-new-state-budget/ Mon, 25 May 2026 17:30:09 +0000 https://vietvalley.com/santa-clara-county-faces-200m-losses-in-new-state-budget/ Outrageous. Catastrophic. A massive leadership failure. These are the words Santa Clara County leaders used this week to describe Gov. Gavin Newsom’s decisions in response to his May 14 state budget revision. Instead of helping California’s second largest public hospital system withstand billions of dollars in funding cuts under President Donald Trump’s H.R. 1 spending …]]> https://vietvalley.com/san-jose-mayors-bid-for-ca-governor-fizzles-out/ Sat, 23 May 2026 16:30:10 +0000 https://vietvalley.com/san-jose-mayors-bid-for-ca-governor-fizzles-out/ San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan’s bid for governor appears to be stalling. An outside committee set up to support Mahan’s campaign, Deliver for Mahan, has filed papers to shut down while another, California Back to Basics, has refunded a $1 million donation from Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, as first reported by the Mercury News. “It’s …]]> https://vietvalley.com/san-jose-truck-company-loses-eminent-domain-case/ Thu, 21 May 2026 20:30:05 +0000 https://vietvalley.com/san-jose-truck-company-loses-eminent-domain-case/ A commercial truck company based in San Jose has lost its bid to gain additional compensation from VTA in an eminent domain case stemming from the planned BART extension project through Silicon Valley. Monarch Truck Center executives have argued their business has been severely harmed following its forced relocation two years ago. But after a weeks-long …]]> https://vietvalley.com/sunnyvale-hits-pause-on-new-smoke-shops/ Thu, 21 May 2026 16:30:08 +0000 https://vietvalley.com/sunnyvale-hits-pause-on-new-smoke-shops/ Sunnyvale leaders want to stop new smoke shops from popping up in town, especially near schools and other youth-oriented areas. The Sunnyvale City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved a 45-day emergency moratorium to temporarily halt new smoke shop permits and introduced a separate policy banning nitrous oxide sales citywide. The proposed regulations come as city …]]>