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Relocating homeless
trumps want for park
Regardless of disagreeing with the FAA’s intentions, I perceive the necessity to adjust to their calls for to relocate the camp residents as outlined in Marisa Kendall’s article (“Airport homeless camp may change into canine park,” Web page B1, Feb. 10). Nevertheless, I really feel uneasy with town’s plan to interchange the camp with a brand new park.
The unhoused are among the most weak on this pandemic. Though Mayor Sam Liccardo expressed a want to place the camp inhabitants first, I fail to know why it’s vital to interchange the camp with a doubtlessly pricey park. If it's so vital to relocate the residents of the camp to adjust to FAA orders, why not alter the plan for the park in an effort to allocate extra funds into housing options? Shouldn’t the wants of the residents trump the will for a park? Not solely would this profit the inhabitants of the airport camp, nevertheless it may have broader results for San Jose’s unhoused inhabitants.
Rebecca Voss
San Jose
Political extremes
tearing nation aside
I'm a average Republican appalled by the Trump supporters main the celebration lately. Rameysh Ramdas’ (“Sen. Paul reveals GOP in want of cleaning,” Web page A6, Feb. 17) and Neil Bonke’s (“Average Republicans may rescue celebration,” Web page A6, Feb. 10) letters made me consider three quotes.
The primary quote is from Ronald Reagan, an enormous tent Republican, “Freedom is … by no means multiple era away from extinction. It's not ours by the use of inheritance; it should be fought for and defended continuously by every era, for it comes solely as soon as to a folks.” The second is from Stealers Wheel: “Clowns to the left of me. Jokers to the proper.” The third is from Mad Eye Moody in “Harry Potter”: “Fixed vigilance.”
Our democracy calls for all of our greatest efforts to guard for our kids and grandchildren that which we take as a right. Neither excessive has a majority of public assist, and each want swing voters and moderates to hold any election. Possibly it’s time for one thing new. Possibly it’s time for a centrists’ Third Celebration.
Dave Riggs
Aptos
Improper time to chill out
COVID masking guidelines
Re. “Is Bay Space embracing the looser masks rule?” Web page A1, Feb. 17:
The Bay Space has constantly failed its cities in its combat towards COVID-19. In line with the article, those that have obtained the COVID vaccine would not have to put on masks inside companies and public workplaces, because of the most recent COVID peak in winter simply starting to settle.
Nevertheless, this ignores the truth that COVID remains to be rampant, and the relief of the masks mandate comes throughout as a letdown. Unvaccinated folks can entry a mask-required web site and not using a masks as a result of nobody will likely be checking to see if they're present on their vaccinations.
As a member of the group, I’ve grown extra pissed off by the common leisure of masks and vaccination guidelines, on account of non permanent lows in instances, that do extra hurt than good.
Jenny Dang
San Jose
State’s senators aren’t
targeted on constituents
Re. “Ballot: Help for Sen. Dianne Feinstein drops to career-low,” Feb. 11:
No kidding. She has change into completely unresponsive. The identical for Sen. Alex Padilla.
I've written to every of them twice and even known as Padilla’s workplace asking for his opinion on Sen. Jon Ossoff’s invoice S 3494 to ban congressional inventory buying and selling. Nothing from both of them. We don’t ship folks there to get wealthy on insider buying and selling. We ship them there to do our work. Neither of those persons are doing that now.
Rep. Anna Eshoo however is doing a superb job. As of now, our senators must refocus or discover new work.
David Perrino
Los Altos
Pricey bullet practice
needs to be deserted
Re. “No plan but for California’s rising bullet practice price ticket,” Web page A7, Feb. 17:
Fourteen years in the past, the price of the high-speed rail challenge was estimated at $33 billion. At present, $100 billion.
The worth retains rising, and we don’t have a bullet practice. Scrap the challenge and run a monorail down the middle of Interstate 5, because the environmental lobbyists gained’t add vital lanes. Let’s cease being silly and throwing cash away.
Walt Disney constructed a monorail system 65 years in the past to indicate Southern California it might be finished. However doing that now would eradicate particular remedy and payouts to vital mates of California politicians.
Jay Morrett
San Jose