https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/04/22/digging-into-the-san-joses-fallon-statue-controversy/ > Tuesday morning my email and social media started popping with people asking if I had seen that removal of the Fallon statue had begun in downtown San Jose. Finally, I thought, our long civic nightmare is over. > But the nightmare I was thinking of wasn’t the Fallon statue itself. It was having to talk about it for the past 35 years. With the statue’s impending removal from Julian Street, San Jose residents will finally get to put this issue to rest.