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Leaders, group can
do extra to struggle starvation
As a San Jose pupil, resident, and volunteer, I've discovered simply how prevalent meals insecurity is inside our group. We hear about meals insecurity and starvation on a regular basis as this situation will not be new. Nonetheless, we are inclined to overlook how many individuals don't obtain sufficient meals to fulfill their day by day necessities for a wholesome physique and simply how important that is.
At Second Harvest of Silicon Valley, volunteers are wanted for a number of hours and days per week. They serve greater than 400,000 locals each month. That's 400,000 individuals in our group most probably not consuming sufficient to be fully wholesome.
Whenever you take a second to consider that statistic, it actually places issues into perspective, as many people stroll previous individuals day-after-day who're amongst that quantity. Extra must be performed by our authorities and group members to fight meals insecurity.
Sarae Regala
San Jose
Housing reform would
mitigate many issues
As a excessive schooler in Cupertino, I’ve witnessed the dire must construct extra houses for all revenue ranges. Due to excessive housing prices, current grads and younger households can’t afford to stay right here. This phenomenon eviscerates native public college enrollment, resulting in much less funding, in line with district demographer stories.
Until we embrace significant housing reform, those that can’t afford to remain will depart, and people who have the means to stay will see their youngsters worsen educations.
Sadly, generally expressed considerations about constructing heights, density, visitors, air pollution, and crime push our native leaders in an anti-housing route, harming our small companies, the setting, and housing affordability, in line with Brookings. The price of doing nothing is just too nice to disregard. We should name on our elected officers to behave now to protect the promise of Silicon Valley. In the event that they don’t, each highschool diploma will grow to be an eviction discover.
Keshav Kumar
Sunnyvale
Safety guard’s firing
exhibits bias continues
Bias towards Marcellus Clark, a 63-year-old Black man, as reported on this paper has proven his unjust remedy. (“Fired Black safety chief claims bias,” Web page B1, Feb. 5) He labored for 21 years in safety and scheduling for all Walgreens shops within the San Francisco Bay space.
In 2019, two white safety guards have been laid off and provided severance. The next 12 months, 2020, Clark and two different black safety guards have been fired with out severance by a brand new supervisor.
This new supervisor was identified for terminating older guards in his new territory. Justice is due Marcellus Clark to rectify the age and delicate race discrimination he suffered after 21 years of devoted work.
Susan Dillon
Morgan Hill
Quest is on for
appropriate unleaded gasoline
I take exception to the editorial in Sunday’s paper (“EPA ought to ban leaded fuel in planes,” Web page A12, Feb. 6). The FAA, EPA and gasoline producers have been looking for an appropriate unleaded gasoline for quite a lot of years now.
The UL94 that's now accessible at Reid-Hillview is the one workable gasoline accessible since looking for a substitute for the prevailing low lead gasoline. The issue is as a result of setting that an airplane flies in. An airplane can go from sea degree to twenty,000 ft in lower than an hour. Your automobile might go to solely 5,000 ft in an identical period of time. The automobile gasoline doesn't want to vary due to thinner air, as an airplane does. And the plane engine’s components don't like some gasoline components which might be wanted to provide the higher-octane gasoline.
That's the reason we solely have the 94-octane accessible in spite of everything these years. We're nonetheless working towards that objective.
Ronald Murphy
San Jose
Unions are finest guess
for staff to have say
In a current article, Starbucks government vice chairman Rossann Williams was quoted saying to staff that Starbucks “didn't desire a union between us as companions.”
Let’s be clear: Until staff are within the room the place choices are being made and empowered with decision-making authority about firm operations, purchases, gross sales, wages and advantages, and different vital enterprise considerations, then staff will not be “companions” or “associates”. Companies apply these phrases to staff as a part of a method to make staff really feel that they don’t want a union.
One of the best ways for an worker to have actual bargaining energy over the phrases of employment is to have a contract that covers wages, advantages, and dealing situations. One of the best ways to get that contract is to kind or be a part of a union.
David Bini
Santa Clara & San Benito Counties Constructing & Development Trades Council
San Jose
Options abound
for fuel home equipment
Thanks in your article on Jan. 28 (“Gasoline stoves could also be extra damaging than thought,” Web page C7) about how frequent it's for stoves to leak pure fuel inside houses, even when the stoves will not be getting used, and about how, when fuel stoves are used, they create nitrogen oxide byproducts that exceed EPA out of doors air high quality requirements.
Sadly, the article included a deceptive assertion by a fuel equipment trade spokesman. In actual fact, electrical warmth pumps for dwelling heating are a number of instances extra environment friendly than any fuel furnace, and warmth pumps have the additional advantage of offering cooling in the summertime. For cooking, electrical induction cooktops outperform fuel stoves – they're extra environment friendly, extra highly effective, create much less warmth within the kitchen, and are simpler to scrub and safer to make use of.
Mary Dateo
Mountain View