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  • November 17th

    This week, our newsletter highlights a promise to you, what’s next in D3, and RV action.

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  • November 3rd

    This week, our newsletter highlights what common sense looks like, your vote, and the new Chief in town.

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  • October 20th

    This week, our newsletter highlights a 1,000-mile milestone, advocacy in action, and how City business is still going on.

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  • October 6th

    This week, our newsletter highlights another 144 people off the street, a $4.5 Million gift, and casting your ballot.

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  • September 23rd

    This week, our newsletter highlights new business incentives Downtown, an electric feel-ing train, and a cold case finally closed.

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  • September 8th

    This week, our newsletter highlights our first Safe Sleeping Site, arresting then releasing, arresting then releasing, and what’s up with Prop 1.

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  • August 25th

    This week, our newsletter highlights mandated treatment, how sharing is caring, and lowering our electrical bills.

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  • August 11th

    This week, our newsletter highlights the governor's latest executive order, Proposition 1, and new MOMENT model small businesses.

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  • July 28th

    This week, our newsletter highlights the Governor’s executive order, the party at San Pedro, and how to join our team.

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  • July 14th

    This week, our newsletter highlights denouncing political violence, the regional response to sideshows, and using AI to make government smarter.

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  • June 30th

    This week, our newsletter highlights a landmark decision, consequences for sideshows, and Independence Day in San Jose.

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  • June 16th

    This week, our newsletter highlights my favorite Father’s Day gift, the surprising history of our world-renowned police training program, and a party invite.

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  • June 3rd

    This week, our newsletter highlights our State of Service, how advocacy pays off, and the largest mural in San Jose.

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  • May 19th

    This week, our newsletter highlights your invite to State of the City, a promise decades in the making, and a tree terrorizer taken in.

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  • May 5th

    This week, our newsletter highlights balancing our budget, moving another 150 neighbors off the street, and investing in safety.

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  • April 21st

    This week, our newsletter highlights accountability for using shelter, our new Independent Police Auditor, and the Save the Date for State of the City.

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  • April 7th

    This week, our newsletter highlights Sandy’s story, my first ribbon cutting with an ax, and what stole Nina’s attention.

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  • March 24th

    This week, our newsletter highlights our budget clearing the first hurdle, keeping SJ families housed, and the world’s leading AI conference in San Jose.

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  • March 10th

    This week, our newsletter highlights moving 1,000 people out of our waterways, San Jose becoming a statewide model for homelessness response, and diversifying SJPD recruitment.

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  • February 25th

    This week, our newsletter highlights what it will take to end street homelessness, our new capture crime pilot program, and the team cleaning up Downtown.

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  • February 11th

    This week, our newsletter highlights an initiative to address the crisis of addiction, the next phase in our fight against homelessness, and what we learned from the storm.

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  • January 28th

    This week, our newsletter highlights reclaiming our public spaces, students organizing for safety, and an initiative to add 10,000 mental health beds.

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  • January 14th

    This week, our newsletter highlights an innovative public-private housing partnership, topping off The Fay, and Bay Area homicide rates.

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  • December 24th

    This week’s newsletter highlights our progress on San Jose’s most challenging issues, pushing for safer streets through enforcement and infrastructure, and how we’re helping our homeless neighbors this holiday season.

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  • December 10th

    This week’s newsletter highlights our encampment resolution success, closing the catalytic converter loophole, soccer fields at the fairgrounds.

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  • November 26th

    This week’s newsletter includes a guide to the holidays in San Jose, how San Jose is leading the nation in patent creation, and drug addiction and overdose in California.

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    November 12th

    This week’s newsletter highlights how performance management dashboards will increase accountability at City Hall, using new tools to fight crime, and expanding transportation options in downtown and beyond with e-bikes.

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  • October 29th

    This week’s newsletter highlights our State of the City focused on the basics, new downtown data showing our bounce back is the fastest in California, and a new innovation in our fight to end street homelessness.

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    October 15th

    This week’s newsletter highlights the future of AI in San Jose, a big win on homelessness, and SB43 and AB645: signed, sealed and soon-to-be delivered.

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  • October 1st

    This week’s newsletter highlights the formula for ending our era of encampments, TogetherSJ, our new initiative connecting neighbors, and how you can take action to expand basic, dignified interim shelter.

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  • September 17th

    This week’s newsletter highlights taking action to end the era of encampments, the budget tradeoffs ahead, and making San Jose’s most dangerous streets safer.

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    September 3rd

    This week’s newsletter highlights our letter inviting social media companies to help stop dangerous slideshows, our call for stricter accountability measures for blighted properties, and how you can help end the era of encampments in San Jose.

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    August 20th

    This week’s newsletter highlights labor negotiations’ impact, our now open TogetherSJ application, and an expansion of mental health beds.

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    August 6th

    This week’s newsletter highlights the launch of our new initiative to connect neighbors and inspire collective action, our proposed ordinance to keep our kids safe, and more.

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    July 23rd

    This week’s newsletter highlights some important updates — including welcoming Bay FC, Northern CA's only pro women's soccer team, to PayPal Park, and sharing details about a meeting with our downtown neighbors focused on ending open-air drug markets.

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  • July 2nd

    This week's newsletter dives into San Jose's zero-tolerance drug dealing policy. Strong collaboration with SJPD and the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office is how we will continue to ensure our families are safe and those struggling with addiction get the care they need to curb their addiction.

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    June 11th

    This week’s newsletter invites you to join the conversation. It asks you to share your voice and push for change. It shares the stories of people who will be affected by the city budget and lays out how it will affect you. Learn more about how you can challenge the status quo and help San José get back to the basics.

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    May 28th

    This week’s newsletter gives a sneak peek into the June Budget Message, which is focused on making sure our city is challenging the status quo, acting with urgency and focusing our limited dollars on our core issues.

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    May 14th

    This week’s newsletter highlights the many ways we are working to reduce traffic deaths to make our city safer and asks an important question.

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    April 30th

    This week’s newsletter highlights our SJ Bridge program which pays homeless neighbors to clean up our city, shares information about our summer internship program, and updates residents about statewide legislation that will help end our era of encampments.

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    April 16th

    This week’s newsletter highlights the most promising solution we have for ending San José’s era of encampments, the critical step we’re taking towards repairing California’s failing behavioral health system, and more.

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    April 2nd

    This week’s newsletter highlights my interview with Dre a San Jose neighbor experiencing homelessness who was evacuated from the creek during the storms and entered our emergency interim housing (EIH) community at Rue Ferreri and much more.

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    March 12th

    This week’s newsletter highlights my support of Senator Eggman’s Conservatorship Reform Bills, my interview with Kathryn, a mother who has dealt with the many challenges of our current mental health care system, and much more.

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    February 26th

    This week we spoke to Ava, a 20-year-old pregnant mother experiencing homelessness, had our first “Snack with Matt”, and had an amazing turn out for our third Inaugur-ACTION clean-up.

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  • February 5th

    Over 2000 residents joined us to celebrate a new era in our city focused on getting back to the basics!

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  • January 2nd

    It’s time to roll up our sleeves and get to work on common-sense solutions.

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