There is District 3 and then there are the suburbs, the other nine Council districts. We seem to have little understanding of who we are or what we do. We are not like any of the other Districts. District 3 is the Pueblo de San Jose de Guadalupe, a colonial outpost of Spain. We are as old and as…

The recent survey of local public monuments by the SJToday blog is a good one. What do our monuments signify and memorialize? Monuments sometimes have a story far beyond what is presented. The Naglee monument, located in St. James Park at North 2nd and St. John streets, is an example of a monument that now…

What style is my house and why is the style important? The Rev. Francis W. Reid (1863-1949) could tell you; he wrote the answer to that question in the San Jose Mercury in 1892. On January 1, 1892 the paper published a special supplement listing the local businesses. The Francis Reid article is the earliest…