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Quarry sale plan
a win for neighbors
I used to be happy to learn the proposal introduced by Supervisor Joe Simitian to purchase the Lehigh Quarry and Cement Plant (“Quarry and cement plant could also be purchased and closed,” B1, Feb 11). What an excellent concept to show the land into open area and presumably housing.
We stay in south Los Altos and are always studying about violations on the plant. For many years, they've been polluting our rivers and releasing mercury and greenhouse gases into our air. We're additionally respiration fumes from cement vehicles which can be always going to and from the quarry.
This proposal wants to maneuver ahead quick so let’s contact Simitian’s workplace with concepts and assist.
Barbara Kyser
Los Altos
Mall house owners’ parking
charges really feel like greed
I'm vastly disillusioned that the house owners of Valley Truthful Mall are charging prospects and staff for parking.
It actually seems like greed. I guess the Valley Truthful Mall house owners are wealthy. The house owners claimed that they're charging for parking as a result of some folks park there in a single day. I doubt that's the reason. In addition to, if there have been unlawful vehicles parked, all Valley Truthful needed to do was put up indicators in opposition to in a single day parking, then tow the vehicles that violate. That may be a easy, straightforward resolution.
This purpose to cost for parking put out by the Valley Truthful Mall house owners feels each misleading and grasping.
Robert Hoop
Sunnyvale
With COVID charges excessive,
preserving masks proper name
I'm very comfortable that Santa Clara County will proceed to implement the indoor masks mandate. Ram Srinivasan (“Santa Clara County ought to loosen up its masks mandate,” Web page A12, Feb. 13) should not have aged mother and father residing on this county or kids too younger to be vaccinated. The aged are nonetheless at excessive threat of COVID problems even after boosting. And kids underneath 5 received’t have entry to vaccines until April on the earliest.
I perceive that vaccinated adults wish to transfer on from COVID, however our positivity price continues to be very excessive. My largest worry is that stress-free the masks mandate now will trigger instances to go up in March.
Let’s have protections for a number of extra weeks. We’ve come to date already. I’d slightly have a maskless summer season when positivity charges get all the way down to 2%-3%.
Nina Seth
San Jose
Loads of causes for
county to maintain mandate
In response to the Feb. 13 Letter to the Editor “Santa Clara Couty ought to loosen up its masks mandate,” (Web page A12) we wish to level out that the Santa Clara County COVID-19 dashboard displays solely instances which can be reported. Many instances will not be examined, many constructive house checks will not be reported. COVID instances within the hospitals are dropping however not low. Although Santa Clara County has good vaccination charges, there are lots of who're nonetheless not vaccinated or boosted and plenty of who're immunocompromised.
In a Could 28, 2020, Letter to the Editor, 12 infectious illness docs praised Public Well being Director Dr. Sara Cody for shielding the welfare of our residents; they credited her for saving many from struggling and demise. As an alternative of being “disillusioned and upset” with Cody, we must be praising her for clever steering primarily based on science and information and for her braveness in standing agency regardless of quite a lot of stress and antipathy.
Betsy Robust, MD/MPH, and Enoch Choi, MD
Los Gatos
The place’s scholar enter
in class masks debate?
John Woolfolk’s current article “When will California raise faculty masks mandate?” (“College students to proceed sporting masks,” Web page B1, Feb. 15) appears to take with no consideration that college students anxiously await the elimination of masks mandates. In interviewing scholar activists, pediatricians and state authorities officers, it appears college students have been unnoticed.
I not too long ago celebrated my 18th birthday on a highschool campus of half-empty school rooms, underpaid substitutes, and an environment of worry. A lot of our college students really feel unsafe with campus COVID protocols, whereas the district continues to pander to a vocal minority of father or mother activists and take away security guidelines. This comes despite excessive case numbers, reducing attendance and scholar pushback. For an additional native instance of scholar sentiments relating to COVID, one solely must look to the current Oakland scholar protests.
I ponder if, sooner or later, those that argue about masks in colleges will trouble to ask these sporting them.
Web page Murray
Los Gatos
Elevated illustration
will enhance democracy
The Joe Mathews Opinion piece “If the U.S. democracy disaster has a capital, it must be Los Angeles” (Web page A13, Feb. 13) is a wonderful evaluation of the undemocratic U.S. authorities.
We should understand that our Structure was written to safe a union of a number of disparate states. That is why Wyoming has the identical variety of senators as California. Admitting voting senators and representatives from Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., would enhance illustration and variety in Congress.
As Mathews suggests, rising the variety of representatives in Congress would make the physique extra democratic and consultant, and it might additionally enhance the chance of the Electoral School choosing the extra in style president.
Robert Lindley
San Jose