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County ought to go towards
options to new jail
Final week, Supervisor Otto Lee ignored neighborhood outpouring and voted for a brand new jail (“County to maneuver ahead with new $390M jail,” Web page B1, Jan. 27).
4 and a half years in the past I used to be homeless. I've bipolar and I used to be with out medicine. A state of affairs occurred the place the police confirmed up however so did an ambulance. As an alternative of going to jail, I went to the hospital.
From there I began receiving remedy. After plenty of rehabilitation, steering, and work, I've housing, I've medicine, I’m again in class, and I've route in my life. I've hope. I hate to suppose what might have occurred if I had ended up going to jail for a psychological well being challenge.
Rehabilitation doesn't occur in jails, it occurs in social companies.
I urge readers to name Supervisor Lee’s workplace to ask him to vary his vote to no on a brand new jail and sure on options to incarceration.
Andrew Siegler
Sunnyvale
S.J. gun ordinance will
assist sluggish gun violence
Re. “S.J. gun legislation is ripe for defeat in courtroom,” Letters to the Editor, Web page A8, Jan. 28:
I applaud Mayor Sam Liccardo and the San Jose Metropolis Council for his or her brave vote for gun management. It will save lives and educate and redirect potential gun violators.
Gun lovers like to quote the Second Modification, which they suppose offers them particular person gun rights. It states that a gun proprietor must be a part of a well-regulated militia.
There may be an inverse relationship between strict state legal guidelines and gun deaths. California is No. 1 in strict gun legal guidelines, No. 44 in gun deaths in 2019; Mississippi is No. 48 in legal guidelines, No. 2 in deaths. When Sunnyvale handed its strict gun ordinances in 2013 they have been sued by the NRA; the NRA misplaced.
Day by day we hear about one other capturing. Let’s change that.
Myra Orta
Los Altos
PG&E wants new
mannequin for its enterprise
The Jan. 31 article “A struggle over rooftop photo voltaic” (Web page C9, Jan. 31) highlights the harmful philosophy of PG&E – “the extra electrical energy they promote, the extra money they make,” and rooftop photo voltaic is a menace to that.
With federal local weather change motion caught in Congress, we are able to’t afford to undermine rooftop photo voltaic in California. The advantages are clear:
• Owners get monetary savings and make higher conservation choices.
• The utilization of obtainable sq. footage on rooftops means much less improvement of lands for photo voltaic farms, defending pure ecosystems.
• That’s extra environment friendly, flowing electrical energy direct out of your rooftop into your house, or pulling it throughout tons of of miles of transmission traces and substations?
The massive enterprise method of PG&E has resulted in California having a few of the best electrical energy charges within the nation whereas inflicting a few of our worst disasters. Make electrical energy charges extra equitable, however PG&E has to help a distributed useful resource mannequin.
Tom Calderwood
Los Gatos
Pink states banning
greater than books
Re. “Tennessee college district bans e book about Holocaust,” Jan. 27:
With the wave of e book banning occurring in lots of crimson states, to say that I’m relieved to be a instructor in California is an understatement.
That is my first 12 months of educating, and I merely can't think about being restricted in my skill to current my college students with views that may make them extra inquisitive, empathetic, educated, and sure, uncomfortable. That's the nature of schooling.
As my colleague places it, “If you’re banning books, you’re banning voices.”
Jacob Lafarga
Sacramento
U.S. path is inviting
battle in Ukraine
Congressional leaders, notably Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi, advocate laws that invitations conflict by squelching negotiations between the 2 nuclear superpowers whereas militarizing Ukraine for $500 million.
“The Defending Ukraine Sovereignty Act” (H.R. 6470 and S.3488) sanctions Russians, given “vital escalation” — even with out invasion.
Opposing Moscow “concerning NATO membership” turns into a non-negotiable coverage.
America pledged NATO wouldn't advance “one inch” east of a unified Germany (1990). We reneged, staged an anti-Russian Ukraine coup in 2014, and now arm and practice Ukrainians.
How is Ukraine our enterprise any greater than Cuba was USSR’s enterprise in 1962? Soviet missiles panicked JFK. Putin fears NATO aggression.
As invaders of Iraq, Vietnam, Korea and elsewhere, we lack the ethical authority to be world cops.
The UN Constitution (signed in San Francisco) requires settling disputes peacefully (Articles 2 and 33). Getting ready for conflict brings conflict.
Jeannette Hassberg, Paul W. Lovinger and Grace Teresi
Officers, Conflict and Regulation League
San Francisco
People all too keen
to disregard Trump hassle
Will Bunch asks if we People will select silence once we be taught the reality that our former president is responsible of legal acts (“Trump’s legal acts — will America care?” Web page A7, Jan. 26).
Sadly, we People have watched Donald Trump impede justice, commit treasonous acts, try to corrupt the outcomes of a confirmed honest election in 2020, after which name upon his followers to overhaul the halls of Congress in help of his massive lie. Twice we watched the Senate decline to question him.
If our elected leaders who've sworn to uphold our Structure have allowed Trump to get away along with his unlawful actions so far, is there any marvel that we might anticipate something totally different of Americans? Actually, the person is product of Teflon, and has confirmed he's “above the legislation.”
Gen Stoner
San Jose