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The Mercury News. The Mercury News (formerly San Jose Mercury News, often locally known as The Merc) is a morning daily newspaper published in San Jose, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is published by the Bay Area News Group, a subsidiary of Media News Group which in turn is controlled by Alden Global Capital, a vulture fund.
Bay Area News Group ( BANG) is the largest publisher of daily and weekly newspapers in the San Francisco Bay Area, including its flagship The Mercury News. A subsidiary of the Denver -based MediaNews Group, [2] its corporate headquarters is in San Jose, California, and publication offices in San Jose. [3] Since 2010, MediaNews Group has been ...
Gary Stephen Webb (August 31, 1955 – December 10, 2004) was an American investigative journalist . He began his career working for newspapers in Kentucky and Ohio, winning numerous awards, and building a reputation for investigative writing. Hired by the San Jose Mercury News, Webb contributed to the paper's Pulitzer Prize -winning coverage ...
In 1881, because of a forceful campaign by editor J.J. Owen of the San Jose Mercury, the city council authorized the construction of the San Jose Electric Light Tower, ostensibly to replace the gas streetlights that had illuminated downtown San Jose since 1861. It didn't provide sufficient illumination, and by 1884 was used only for ceremonial ...
New Almaden. / 37.189153; -121.833269. New Almaden, known in Spanish as Nueva Almadén, is a historic community and former mercury mine in the Capitancillos Hills of San Jose, California, located at the southwestern point of Almaden Valley in South San Jose. New Almaden is divided into two parts: the mines and much of their immediate ...
Dewey Decimal. 363.4/5/097285. Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion is a 1998 book by journalist Gary Webb. The book is based on "Dark Alliance", Webb's three-part investigative series published in the San Jose Mercury News in August 1996. The original series claimed that, in order to help raise funds for efforts ...
sanjoseca.gov. San Jose, officially the City of San José ( Spanish for ' Saint Joseph ' [14] / ˌsæn hoʊˈzeɪ, - ˈseɪ / SAN hoh-ZAY, -SAY; Spanish: [saŋ xoˈse] ), [15] is the largest city in Northern California by both population and area. With a 2022 population of 971,233, [9] it is the most populous city in both the Bay Area and ...
Almaden Quicksilver County Park. Almaden Quicksilver County Park is a 4,163 acres (17 km 2) park that includes the grounds of former mercury ("quicksilver") mines adjacent to south San Jose, California, USA. The park's elevation varies greatly: the most used entrances (on the east side of the park) are less than 600 feet (183 m) above sea level ...