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Valley Honest parking payment
will damage mall workers
Valley Honest Mall’s new parking plan would require mall workers to pay $40 a month or $3 a day to park within the buildings (“Parking plan at Valley Honest good — and unhealthy,” Web page B1, Jan. 12). It's extremely unreasonable to set such exorbitant costs and count on minimal wage employees to afford this, particularly throughout a time the place many are nonetheless coping with the financial results of COVID-19.
Workers don't have anything to do with the problems surrounding in a single day lot parking. If something, they aren’t even assured a spot as a result of nobody prevents households from parking within the employee-specific lot. To resolve this, the mall ought to give employees distinctive, free permits that solely permit them to park in that lot.
After a $1.1 billion growth, Valley Honest Mall is clearly profitable, and it’s the devoted workers that carry earnings to this mall. The brand new parking coverage is a money-making scheme that exploits lower-level employees for company acquire – which is egregiously unacceptable.
Rujula Rao
San Jose
Metropolis ought to prioritize
feeding needy, not guidelines
I'm grateful to The Mercury Information for elevating consciousness on the problem of our meals pantries being shut down (“S.J. meals pantry reopens — however for a way lengthy?” Web page B1, Jan. 14).
I by no means knew that an costly allow was required for meals to be distributed to the general public in our parks. That is particularly regarding as we're getting into the third yr of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many native companies and households have been struggling financially by the lockdowns, provide chain shortages and the ever-increasing price of residing.
I'm upset within the metropolis of San Jose constructing obstacles to community-born options to meals waste and for households which are going through monetary hardship. This reads as the town prioritizing the looks of prosperity as an alternative of actually enhancing the standard of life for the residents of San Jose.
Lillian Kirby
San Juan Bautista
Sound laws will assist
mitigate local weather change
Craig Bates (“No legislating our means out of local weather change,” Letters to the Editor, Web page A6, Feb. 1) is blindfolded and holding onto an elephant’s tail and saying there’s no means this factor can weigh 10,000 kilos.
Laws gave us the $7,500 BEV tax credit score, the photo voltaic tax credit score and many analysis cash for innovation.
Billions of dollars have been spent on R&D, prodded by laws.
As an innovator, I too say extra innovation is totally important to get the job completed in time (2030). I additionally see the lobbying by the incumbent applied sciences (fossil fuels, and so forth.) to attempt to cease the laws from being sturdy sufficient to push us excessive. Had they not been as profitable as they had been, they might be gone already.
We're engaged on a essential and adequate set of improvements to tip the stability; and it will be massively useful if somebody would legislate funding to us, in addition to legislating extra demand for our coming merchandise.
Mark Roest
Sustainable Vitality Inc.
San Mateo
CMS ought to reverse
merciless Alzheimer’s coverage
Anybody going through Alzheimer’s should be shocked and offended with the Facilities for Medicare and Medicaid Companies’ (CMS) resolution to not cowl Aduhelm or some other amyloid-targeting remedy which may be permitted sooner or later (“Medicare will restrict protection of dear Alzheimer’s drug,” Jan. 11). It's exhausting sufficient to take care of this illness, however this merciless resolution denies hope to 1.2 million Individuals who would possibly profit.
If my mother, who suffered from Alzheimer’s for over 10 years, was nonetheless within the early levels and I acquired this information, I might be furious. There is no such thing as a simply rationale for this resolution. President Biden desires to be a person of the individuals and produce individuals collectively, however this resolution has the alternative impact. And it's historic in its exclusion.
A society is judged by the way it takes care of its most weak residents; on this case historical past will choose President Biden and all these related to this resolution harshly.
I urge Rep. Anna Eshoo to talk out in opposition to this resolution.
Pat Mahony
San Jose
Common weight-reduction plan comes
with well being dangers
Persons are continuously on the lookout for the quickest method to drop pounds inside a brief period of time. One fashionable weight-reduction plan pattern individuals are at the moment making an attempt is the ketogenic weight-reduction plan. The keto weight-reduction plan is a meal plan that's excessive in fats, reasonable in protein and really low in carbohydrates. With this weight-reduction plan, the physique is now breaking down fats as its main supply of vitality, often known as ketosis.
The principle purpose why people see weight reduction with this weight-reduction plan is as a result of decreased quantity of whole energy being consumed every day when eliminating carbohydrates. This weight-reduction plan isn't the healthiest method to drop pounds, neither is it sustainable. The mind makes use of carbohydrates as its most popular gas supply, and due to this fact they shouldn't be eliminated out of your weight-reduction plan.
Analysis research have solely seen the ketogenic weight-reduction plan to be helpful for people who've continual well being circumstances.
Katelyn Humbert
Campbell