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San Jose is the third-largest city
in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States.
While best known as the newspaper
of Silicon Valley, the San Jose Mercury News enjoys the ranking
of one of the top ten newspapers in the country by the Columbia
Journalism Review and was named the boldest American newspaper by the
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Founded in 1851 as the San Jose Weekly Visitor, the
San Jose Mercury News has
grown into one of the nation's great dailies. Drawing its name from the
region's quicksilver mines, the San Jose Mercury News covered the
evolution of an agricultural community into a global technology center.
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San Jose is the county seat
of Santa Clara County. For the past several years, it has held the title
of The Safest Big City in America. |
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San Jose is located in Silicon Valley, at the south end of the San
Francisco Bay. With a population of 953,679, San Jose is the largest
city in Northern California. Once was a small farming city by 1950,
San Jose was first a magnet for suburban newcomers in new housing
developments (1960s to the 1990s) and became a large thriving urban
center of Northern California, sometimes nicknamed L.A. North points out
a similarity to Los Angeles by the end of the 20th century. |
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