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The Podlight — 116 episodes

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Two big questions for Silicon Valley

2

Can San Jose handle more data centers?

3

Breaking down the primary election

4

Matt Mahan’s longshot governor bid

5

East San Jose reckons with Cesar Chavez’s legacy

6

Inside San Jose's budget shortfall

7

How San Jose is betting on big games

8

The cost of cutting SNAP: Families on the brink in Silicon Valley

9

County top boss on Measure A and the future of public health

10

New downtown San Jose councilman hits the ground running

11

Inside VTA's historic strike and lessons learned

12

Who will be San Jose's next downtown councilmember?

13

How a new Santa Clara County supervisor is making her mark

14

Meet Silicon Valley's first Vietnamese-American county supervisor

15

Homelessness in the West Valley

16

Milpitas election analysis

17

What's next for Sunnyvale?

18

West Valley election analysis

19

Sunnyvale & Santa Clara election analysis

20

General election 2024: Predictions

21

Meet Los Gatos' new leader

22

Kamala Harris woos Silicon Valley, but is it enough?

23

The dysfunctional Santa Clara City Council

24

The future of the beloved Pruneyard Cinemas

25

A closer look at BART's extension to Santa Clara

26

Inside Cupertino's move to misallocate housing funds

27

Primary election 2024: Predictions

28

How a San Jose-inspired bill could uncover public records

29

Rep. Anna Eshoo reflects on retirement; race to replace her heats up

30

Why San Jose office workers aren't coming back

31

San Jose broke transparency laws. What's next?

32

San Jose looks to ban homeless camps near schools

33

The state of the county: Mental health

34

San Jose's gun safety debate

35

PolitiBeat 2023: A deep dive

36

San Jose's fight over affordable housing funds

37

San Jose's Cinco de Mayo debacle

38

How Silicon Valley is tackling homelessness

39

The drug smuggler inside San Jose's police union

40

The fight for a Buddhist temple in San Jose

41

Massive inequality: A snapshot of Silicon Valley's economy

42

Meet San Jose's new District 10 councilmember

43

Meet San Jose's new District 8 councilmember

44

Rain, floods and drought: A closer look

45

Silicon Valley's minimum wage increase: Is it enough?

46

To appoint or to elect? San Jose bitterly divided

47

'People wanted change': Silicon Valley's post election analysis

48

Election 2022: General predictions & analysis

49

Meet the candidates for Santa Clara County sheriff

50

Homeless deaths spike in Silicon Valley

51

Analysis: San Jose mayoral candidate forum

52

San Jose lifts lowrider cruising ban

53

San Jose's lofty housing goals

54

The fight to close Reid-Hillview Airport

55

The state of downtown San Jose

56

An inside look at Silicon Valley's housing market

57

The mental health crisis in Santa Clara County

58

Election Day 2022: FAQs

59

Election 2022: Primary predictions & analysis

60

Remembering Norm Mineta

61

Google in San Jose: A deep dive

62

San Jose could have ranked choice voting, 14 council distrcits

63

San Jose's plan to reduce traffic deaths, theft of catalytic converters

64

COVID enters endemic phase, barriers to affordable housing

65

Santa Clara County says goodbye to masks

66

Counting Silicon Valley's homeless residents

67

San Jose's new gun policies: Hear from both sides

68

Valley Water won't settle flood lawsuit

69

Why we're suing San Jose, Liccardo, and how Bloom Energy helped write policy

70

Emergency workers at VMC walk off job, a new jail approved

71

Big plans for the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds

72

San Jose explores allowing noncitizens to vote

73

San Jose's COVID booster mandate, a rise in homeless deaths

74

Sheriff Laurie Smith faces corruption accusations

75

San Jose sweeps hundreds of homeless camps

76

San Jose mayor's new PAC, license plate readers

77

Coyote Valley: Both sides of the preservation debate

78

San Jose finally boots Thomas Fallon statue

79

Santa Clara County redistricting debate heats up

80

San Jose employee blows whistle on city contracts

81

Redistricting raises ire in San Jose, mayor faces bullying in Los Gatos

82

San Jose struggles to save mural, Liccardo email fight continues

83

SJSU president quits amid sex abuse scandal

84

Exclusive: Sheriff Laurie Smith opens up about jail scandals

85

What the end of single-family zoning means for San Jose

86

San Jose police and fire oppose vax mandate

87

San Jose City Hall vaccine mandates, diversifying the chamber of commerce

88

COVID-19 cases in San Jose schools

89

Breaking down San Jose's proof of COVID-19 vaccine mandate

90

Closure of Reid-Hillview Airport, Newsom stops in San Jose

91

VTA workers call out toxic work environment

92

Masks required indoors, Liccardo's PRA violation draws response

93

VTA faces workers' comp claims, Viet Heritage Garden languishes

94

A growing San Jose homeless camp

95

Sajid Khan sets himself apart in DA race

96

Bloom Energy sues Santa Clara, the South Bay's skyrocketing rents

97

VTA light rail's return and illegal fireworks

98

San Jose mayor's advocacy group, gun control measures

99

Contentious vote on San Jose Flea Market delayed

100

Google, Laura's Law win approvals in Silicon Valley

101

San Jose reeling from VTA mass shooting

102

San Jose casinos get stiffed, homeless encampments rejected

103

Berryessa Flea Market plan moves forward

104

San Jose school closures, airport struggles and Thomas Fallon statue

105

San Jose's Google campus clears major milestone

106

How Derrick Seaver will rebuild embattled business group

107

How San Jose mayor’s ally helped Bloom Energy skirt a natural gas ban

108

Urban Catalyst's Erik Hayden talks Opportunity Zones

109

Top stories of 2019

110

An exclusive sitdown with Scott Wiener

111

Google's big plans for San Jose

112

The legendary Chuck Davidson

113

Digging into anti-displacement policies

114

The three Ps of housing policy

115

A look at San Jose's new Section 8 discrimination policy

116

Who are the players in downtown San Jose?