Milpitas in the News
May 8, 2008
'Groundbreaking' Santa Clara County study reveals lives of female inmates
By Karen de Sa, Mercury News
Female convicts in Santa Clara County are mostly the walking wounded - survivors of sexual abuse and domestic violence, adults who drowned their untreated childhood trauma in methamphetamine and crack cocaine. When they clash with the law, prostituting themselves, fighting with partners or staggering through public streets, chances are they end up at the county's Elmwood Correctional Center Milpitas.
In The Milpitas Post
Milpitas schools on the road to becoming Solar City USA
Milpitas Post Staff
The school trustees at their last meeting signed a set of contracts to construct a vast series of solar installations in the form of "shade structures" on blacktops that kids can rest under and even park their cars under, at virtually all of our local public school sites.
Family files $10-million claim against schools
by Ali Abdollahi
The family of a Milpitas High School student who nearly drowned in the school pool last October has filed a $10-million personal injury claim against the Milpitas Unified School District.
A strong dose of reality seems to be taking hold
Milpitas Post Staff
VTA's Burns summed it up succinctly when he said, "Clearly, we can't afford all the projects." Some amputations are called for and it could get bloody.
Neighbors grow closer after homicide shocks subdivision
by Ian Bauer
Fan's brutal 2007 murder shocked homeowners in the quiet clustered subdivision of two-story Mediterranean-style houses located off Milmont Drive, south of Dixon Landing Road.
Calendar for May 8
Milpitas Post Staff
- Camera club meeting - May 13
- Historical Society - May 14
- Under-14 soccer tryouts - May 15
- Working with media - May 15
- Peaceful Poets - May 15
- Milpitas Family Day - May 17
- Tip-A-Cop at Outback - May 20
- Relay For Life meeting - May 20
- Milpitas chamber hosts trade show - May 21
- Milpitas High 1988 reunion - June 14
May 7, 2008
Report: Older men marry younger women
Study shows decision is regardless of wealth
By Mike Swift / Bay Area News Group
Thi Tran, a 44-year-old social worker from Milpitas, said it always bothered her that women in her mother's generation worried so much about their looks as they aged. But things haven't changed, she said.
Familiar names compete in race for Santa Clara County supervisor
TURNOUT COULD BE A FACTOR IN RACE
By Deborah Lohse, Mercury News
Then again, the third candidate is Jose Esteves, the three-term mayor of Milpitas - which is home to current Supervisor Pete McHugh, who is termed out at the end of this year. Esteves, an information systems specialist for the county's Superior Court, promises a strong focus on business and economic issues. Endorsed by state Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, and numerous local elected officials, Esteves says his top priority as supervisor would be addressing the county's deficit, but he also wants "to lead the county with all the other cities on regional issues." Those include "bringing back Silicon Valley to be a primary place for jobs." He says he's worked proactively as mayor to bring businesses to Milpitas.
REDWOOD CITY: CLOSING STATEMENTS IN TRIAL OF MAN ACCUSED OF MURDERING WIFE
CBS 5
Quincy Norton testified that the fight the boys remember was the morning before his wife died, and that he came home from another woman's house to find his wife dead. He told the court that he was at Anitra Johnson's house the night of July 21, and insinuated that Johnson took his keys at some point and left her Milpitas home for a few hours.
