It’s election season, which means that once again, all sorts of stories and allegations get trotted out to advance candidates’ campaigns, some of which are just rehashes of old claims that simply aren’t true. The latest one is the trope … Continue reading
Category Archives: Rumor control
FollowIn this week’s meeting, Council certified registrar results and placed the Sunnyvale Public Lands Act on the November 2016 ballot in response to a resident petition. The meeting was very useful in educating residents about the actual impacts of the … Continue reading
A recent rumor has been circulated that Sunnyvale’s government proposes projects enormous changes housing, industry, and traffic, and the rumor quotes significant, scary numbers in its claims. Unfortunately, the author made major factual errors in his claims, and the result … Continue reading
One of the more ludicrous claims being circulated nowadays is that “the City wants to sell 14 acres of the Civic Center!” This takes on many variations, but it invariably degenerates to a bizarre assertion that Sunnyvale wants to sell … Continue reading
We’ve been hearing a lot of misinformation circulating the city in recent months, some of it propagated by uninformed individuals, some of it being deliberately spread, unfortunately. At any given time, there’s always someone making bizarre claims about the city, … Continue reading