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Suppliers want new
measure of water use
Re. “County trims water utilization,” Web page A1, Jan. 14:
As a substitute of asking for a proportion discount from a earlier 12 months’s use, water suppliers ought to merely inform clients that their use is both acceptable or excessive in relation to different comparability clients.
I've learn of huge discrepancies between water payments and many owners are unaware of hidden leaks. The “allotted quantity” must be primarily based upon the house dimension. That's, in actual fact, the information that shall be used to superb a water waster, if it ever involves that.
Ronald Johnstone
Santa Clara
San Jose payment to care
for needy an outrage
I'm completely outraged over the necessity for a $15,500 allow (“S.J. meals pantry reopens — however for a way lengthy?,” Web page B1, Jan. 14) to offer away meals to the needy. What a shame.
I'm wondering what number of different actions that could possibly be taken to assist these in want of some help in each day survival are being suppressed by such actions by native governments.
I imagine the town or county (or each) ought to make a donation of $15,500 to help this effort as an alternative of making an attempt to penalize them for locating a manner to assist these in want. Could God bless this effort and people which are concerned in such a worthwhile exercise.
Jack and Jo Knoll
San Jose
Local weather change combat
is an ethical crucial
As one other faith-based environmental group, we recognize Rev. Ambrose Carroll’s ethical lens on our obligation to scale back carbon emissions and to name foul on profit-making within the title of “equalizing” prices (“PUC proposal on rooftop photo voltaic coverage hurts working households,” Web page A6, Jan. 13). We hope extra religion teams will communicate out in opposition to the egregious proposed CPUC payment constructions that will destroy rooftop photo voltaic as an integral part of a brand new power technique.
Gratitude to Inexperienced the Church for working to supply extra individuals entry to low-cost, distributed dwelling power. Ask the governor for actual fairness – by vetoing the CPUC profit-over-planet plan.
Diane Fisher
Saratoga
GOP should be defeated
to protect democracy
We all know dozens of Republicans holding workplace in Washington at present have been a part of a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election and set up Donald Trump as president. They're at the moment engaged in an enormous obstruction of justice effort to cowl up their crimes lengthy sufficient that they will achieve political energy, utilizing each delay tactic they will to expire the clock till the subsequent two election cycles come up.
Their stern obstruction to voting rights, aided by clueless Sens. Krysten Sinema and Joe Manchin, is a key a part of the GOP plan to get away with their many crimes on the expense of U.S. consultant authorities. Don't be fooled by the whataboutism; discover the criminality, the evasion, and the lies.
It’s crucial for our nation’s future that at present’s GOP fails and faces justice, which suggests supporting Democrats in upcoming elections.
Mathew Clark
Campbell
By courtroom’s logic, their
COVID guidelines invalid
The Supreme Court docket blocked the Biden administration’s rule requiring that employees at massive companies obtain the COVID vaccine or put on masks and get examined on a weekly foundation (“Supreme Court docket blocks mandate for big companies,” Web page A1, Jan. 13). That is the regulation henceforth and all of us should abide.
Now allow us to take a look at the office guidelines for the Supreme Court docket: All attorneys, vaccinated or not, should take a PCR take a look at at a court-designated facility. Solely these attorneys who take a look at unfavorable are permitted within the constructing, which is in any other case closed to the general public, and they're required to put on an N95 masks or KN95 respirator besides when arguing the case, consuming or consuming.
These guidelines must be invalidated primarily based on the Supreme Court docket’s personal ruling, and they need to permit the general public to look at the arguments with none situations imposed on them.
Mohan Raj
San Jose
Columnist present little
concern for academics
Marc A. Thiessen gives a awful method to a sophisticated state of affairs: the instructor walkouts in Chicago (“Don’t negotiate with academics who stroll off job — fireplace them,” Web page A7, Jan. 13).
Whereas advocating firing academics who stroll out due to COVID issues, Thiessen focuses solely on kids’s bodily and psychological well being and improvement. Not as soon as does he point out instructor security, but academics put themselves in danger on daily basis by being uncovered to the myriad viruses which kids usher in. He conveniently ignores the nationwide dearth of recent academics and certified substitutes, which might be exacerbated by firings. He conveniently forgets Ronald Reagan’s firing of putting air site visitors controllers, which cemented Reagan’s place with conservatives however impacted our air site visitors management system for years.
Having tutored studying to first- and second-graders in a San Jose elementary faculty, I've but to discover a instructor who was not involved about their college students’ training – however there are limits. How about becoming a member of the actual world, Mr. Thiessen?
Daniel Lee
San Jose