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An Interview with District 25 State Assembly Candidate: Jim Canova

Why are you running for State Assembly?  I will work to reconcile the competing needs for infrastructure, transportation, preservation of open space, utilities, and public...

Interview with MUSD School Board Member Candidate: Vance Vuong

Why are you running for School Board?  The calling of public service. I care deeply about education. The solid educational empowerment of children from K...

Interview with MUSD School Board Member Candidate: Minh Ngo

Why are you running for School Board?  Education is the cornerstone of our success and we need leaders to contribute and help lead our schools...

Interview with MUSD Board Member Candidate: Ling Kong

Why are you running for School Board?  My two children have been a part of the MUSD family for over a decade. I want to...

An interview with County Supervisor District 3 Candidate: John Leyba

Why are you running for County Supervisor?   I’m running for County Supervisor because our biggest problems -- homelessness, mentally ill on the streets, and the...

An interview with County Supervisor District 3 Candidate: Otto Lee

Why are you running for County Supervisor? Representing my community and advocating for improving the quality of life for my friends and neighbors is personal...

An interview with County Supervisor District 3 Candidate: Kansen Chu

Why are you running for County Supervisor?     As an immigrant who came to the United States for graduate school, I am so honored and humbled...

Starting this week, ballots will be mailed to all registered voters for first time ever

Expect a ballot for the March 3 primary in your mailbox this week, even if you’ve never voted by mail before. The approximately 940,000 mail-in...

The Milpitas Beat endorses Minh Ngo for School Board

This is The Milpitas Beat’s first-ever political endorsement. The Beat hereby endorses candidate Minh Ngo in his race to become a Milpitas Unified School District...

Carmen Montano wants to “represent the people”

One of two Milpitas City Councilmembers running for State Assembly District 25 -- which covers Milpitas, Fremont, Newark, San Jose, and Santa Clara --...

Councilmember Anthony Phan enters State Assembly race

The Assembly race is getting bigger, and the latest person to pull papers is yet another Milpitas City Councilmember. Freshman Councilmember Anthony Phan officially filed...

Kong and Ngo pull papers to run for MUSD Board seat

Chia-Ling Kong and Minh Ngo have pulled papers to run in the upcoming Special Election for the open Milpitas Unified School District Board seat.  The...

Milpitas Councilmember Carmen Montano enters Assembly race

In an early fall addition to 2020’s Assembly District 25 race, Milpitas City Councilmember Carmen Montano has officially declared her candidacy.  Montano faces fellow candidates...

Milpitas Vice Mayor Karina Dominguez exits State Assembly race

Milpitas’ Vice Mayor Karina Dominguez has officially dropped out of the race for State Assembly. On Facebook, in the early morning hours of Saturday, September...

Political outsider Natasha Gupta jumps into State Assembly race

The assembly race for the seat to be vacated by Kansen Chu in the 25th district now has a new candidate: Natasha Gupta (age...

State Assembly Candidate Anna Song Endorsed by Mayor Rich Tran

“Loyal, trustworthy, and committed to the community.” These were the words with which Mayor Rich Tran described 25th Assembly District Candidate Anna Song, in the...

Milpitas Mayor Rich Tran Bows out of State Assembly Race, Plans to Run for Third Mayoral Term Instead

In an exclusive interview with The Milpitas Beat, Mayor Rich Tran said that he was withdrawing from the State Assemblymember race, so that he...

Assemblymember Race Heats Up: Vice Mayor Karina Dominguez, Alex Lee, & Bob Brunton All Enter Contest

Within the last couple of weeks, a few new candidates announced they’d be joining the Assemblymember race for AD25, the most recent being Milpitas’...

Women Are Winning: Meet Milpitas’ New Vice Mayor Karina Dominguez

When Karina Dominguez ran for Milpitas City Council in this past November, 2018, election, she did so grassroots-style, mobilizing support from the community by...

The Lowdown on the Swear-in Ceremony at Milpitas City Hall

  At Milpitas' 12/18/18 City Council meeting, re-elected Mayor Rich Tran, along with incoming Councilmembers Karina Dominguez and Carmen Montano, were officially sworn in. It...

Women are Winning: A Profile of New School Board Member Kelly Yip-Chuan

  This past November's election was a historic one for women. A record number of 116 women took seats in Congress. Add to this the...

Opinion: Why Tran Won

I was naive when I started writing for The Milpitas Beat. I thought I’d throw some warm coverage at our humble small town (or small...

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