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Spend on restorative
justice, not a brand new jail
I used to be deeply involved to study that the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors is contemplating constructing a brand new jail in Santa Clara County.
A brand new jail wouldn't cut back crime nor wouldn't it contribute to neighborhood security. It could as an alternative pour valuable public funds right into a damaged prison justice system that worsens the basis causes of crime equivalent to poverty, psychological sickness and dependancy, all whereas contributing to a racist system of mass incarceration.
Upstream interventions equivalent to poverty reduction and job coaching applications and ample funding in dependancy and different psychological well being providers are key to eliminating the necessity for extra jails and prisons and constructing a future that may strengthen households and communities, together with people who can be impacted by incarceration.
I'm in help of stopping the brand new Santa Clara County Jail in favor of options to incarceration that enhance communities and promote therapeutic via restorative justice approaches.
Maristella Tapia
San Jose
Cupertino management
working effectively for metropolis
It have to be an election yr once more. In Cupertino, it appears that evidently some maintain campaigning by proxy. Jon Ramos (“Vallco delays danger Cupertino’s funds,” Letters to the Editor, Web page A12, Jan. 23), who doesn’t dwell in Cupertino, criticizes our mayor and Metropolis Council for entitlements that have been taken utterly out of their arms. Talking as a politically concerned resident, the favored sentiment right here is that our Council has confirmed they work effectively with one another and with trustworthy folks. Contemplating Cupertino’s many challenges in recent times, Mayor Darcy Paul and our Council have dealt with even essentially the most tough points with grace, aplomb and integrity.
Our residents have grown weary of Cupertino’s few however vocal critics, together with a persistent nameless smear-blogger, and judgmental outsiders who've by no means had a constant working relationship inside our metropolis. Infantile pot-shot ways shouldn't have any place in politics, however expertise reveals they may sadly enhance as we get nearer to the polls.
Danessa Techmanski
Cupertino
Utilities want plan
that received’t kill photo voltaic
Concerning any adjustments to the pricing of photo voltaic power for the general public, please don’t cease one thing that's lastly rising.
Many actually consider California could lead on the nation – and far of the world – in a constructive, long-lasting supply of future energy. And we’re off to a great begin, each in shopper attraction and in rising employment. Let’s not nip it within the bud.
Sure, batteries are the longer term. However at the moment, solely higher-income households can afford rooftops and batteries – on the similar time. In the meantime, it’s been middle-income households who've invested in photo voltaic’s beginnings – and would proceed to make it develop. Except stopped.
Actually, the utilities can attain some consensus. Giving owners and builders extra incentive to put in photo voltaic, whereas the utilities profit financially from an enlarged grid to deal with elevated load.
Please go for a photo voltaic future.
Dan Dippery
Menlo Park
Valadao impeachment
vote was the precise one
So let me ensure that I perceive the parents in Hanford: The previous president tried to overthrow the U.S. authorities. Their congressman does the one factor a rational and ethical individual might probably do: Honor his pledge to defend the Structure and vote to question. And he stabbed them within the again?
All of us wish to meet within the center, however one wonders how can we discover widespread floor with those that help sedition.
Dave Eshleman
Los Gatos
Djokovic obstinance
turning into too widespread
Novak Djokovic, the world’s main male tennis participant, created a global incident along with his cavalier therapy of the foundations governing entry to Australia. He refuses to be vaccinated and thinks his stature in tennis ought to exempt him from guidelines anybody else is predicted to obey.
This perception within the primacy of private freedom over accountability to a better good is basically opposite to the notions of democracy, i.e., a authorities by the folks and for the folks. If we’re not keen to stick to norms of widespread decency that respect the rights and privileges (and well being) of others, we’re headed for a real-world, 24/7 model of “The Purge” films.
A tennis participant’s sense of entitlement is trivial within the grand scheme of issues. However his conduct epitomizes a prepare of thought in society that's turning into more and more widespread. It's dangerously unhealthy for our collective future.
Eugene Ely
San Jose
Jan. 6 conspiracy ought to
be on entrance web page
Propaganda and outright lies from hard-right media and social media inform the political beliefs of a big proportion of People – but democracy will depend on the reality.
Mounting proof particulars the makes an attempt of the defeated president and his accomplices to defy the need of the voters and allow him to stay in workplace – for the primary time in our historical past. The defeated president helps the campaigns of state election officers loyal to him and sure with out qualms about “discovering” Donald Trump votes. And state elections legal guidelines are modified, making it more durable for a lot of to vote – largely folks with much less privilege. The risk to our democracy, together with the rebel and the function of right-wing media, deserves every day placement on Web page 1 – not Web page 7, (“For a lot of who went to rally, Jan. 6 was solely the start,” Jan. 23) as final Sunday.
The identical applies to local weather disruption and its options.
The quantity of protection and placement ought to mirror a problem’s significance. All tales usually are not equal.
Barbara Fukumoto
Sunnyvale