SAN JOSE, CA – Might 27: Flags fly at half mast, Thursday, Might 27, 2021, in entrance of Metropolis Corridor in San Jose, Calif., in reminiscence of the victims of yesterday’s mass taking pictures on the VTA practice yard. (Karl Mondon/Bay Space Information Group)
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San Jose’s racial fairness
definition is simply too slim
Re. “ADL chief: Whoopi Goldberg can use suspension to find out about antisemitism,” Feb. 2:
Did the San Jose Mayor, Metropolis Council and Metropolis’s Workplace of Racial Fairness have a “Whoopi Goldberg” second on Feb. 1? Sure, they did.
Despite each verbal and written public enter informing the mayor, Metropolis Council and the town employees that the definition of “racial fairness” excluded particular racial and ethnic teams, the Council handed a racially biased “racial fairness” definition. At a minimal, the “racial fairness” definition excluded traditionally persecuted Jews. At worst, it excluded much more.
Maybe the mayor, Metropolis Council and the town’s Workplace of Racial Fairness want a two-week “time-out” to mirror on their very own racial biases, beliefs and behaviors. Maybe extra thought ought to be given to assuring that the “racial fairness” definition is inclusive of all marginalized communities. Maybe public enter ought to be given extra weight.
Sandra Delvin
San Jose
Laws has already
had local weather combat impression
I'm writing in response to Craig Bates Feb. 1 letter, “No legislating our approach out of local weather change.” (Web page A6) The letter misses the purpose on two key points.
First, all research point out the local weather change we're seeing now could be artifical. Most telling was the warning Code Crimson for Humanity within the August 2021 IPCC report.
Second, laws can assist handle local weather change. One good instance is Meeting Invoice 117. AB 117 offers the blueprint for a jurisdiction to create a digital utility referred to as a neighborhood alternative aggregation or CCA. The CCA can supply electrical energy from low or no carbon sources (photo voltaic, wind, hydro). CCA income allowed them to fund applications like REACH codes. REACH codes specify electrical home equipment to run on lowered carbon electrical energy as a substitute of fossil gasoline additional lowering greenhouse gases.
These constructive occasions wouldn't have occurred with out the blueprint for CCAs in AB 117.
Bruce Naegel
Mountain View
Single-payer well being care
invoice has too many flaws
There are two (a minimum of) main flaws in Assemblyman Ash Kalra’s effort to determine a California state well being care system (“Lawmaker fights to avoid wasting well being care invoice,” Web page B1, Feb. 2). First is that no state can, or ought to, go it alone in such an effort. The cash isn’t there, and the state – not like the feds – can’t run deficits.
Second, Kalra’s plan for state well being care means dismantling the Medicare system loved by California’s over-65 inhabitants. As somebody who has skilled the advantages of Medicare for greater than 50 years (together with mother and father who lived into their 90s), I can assure that any effort by a legislator to dismantle Medicare will end in instantaneous elimination from workplace. Senior residents vote, and woe to the politician who makes an attempt to disrupt both Social Safety or Medicare.
Fashionable nations worldwide get pleasure from common well being care without any consideration; that we don't is yet one more indicator of regular decline in our dis-United States of America.
Kirch DeMartini
Saratoga
Escalation with Russia
shouldn't be a good suggestion
We're within the midst of our third decade of the twenty first century. That’s proper Bay Space, since March 2020, and popping out of our bathroom paper PTSD disaster, now we have accomplished 20 years of the twenty first century.
As omicron’s headwinds dissipate, America is once more positioning itself to avoid wasting one other nation. We didn’t end the job in Afghanistan and now have our sights on saving Ukraine.
In the meantime, Russia is sending nuclear-capable ships to our close by neighbors akin to Cuba and Venezuela with the intention to remind us that it takes two to tango.
Because the technological hub of the world, now is an efficient time to keep in mind that we're all in truth Homo sapiens. Within the animal kingdom, it’s by no means a good suggestion to kill your individual species.
Akeem Mostamandy
San Jose
AB 1400’s failure reveals
an absence of compassion
At present I went on Medicare, as I'll flip 65 this month.
Prior to now yr, the most cost effective, high-deductible medical coverage price me $13,200 in premiums. That premium will plummet to $4,200 this coming yr, for a lot better advantages. Why did I magically, in a single day, come to deserve comparatively reasonably priced medical insurance coverage?
AB 1400, “Assured Well being Look after All,” which simply died within the state Meeting, would have prolonged these advantages to all Californians. If it had handed and turn into legislation, the uninsured wouldn't clog the emergency rooms. Nobody could be one medical incident from chapter or eviction.
A compassionate society takes care of everybody’s medical wants. We have to discover a method to go this invoice subsequent yr.
Terence Welch
Santa Cruz