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Lawler would convey
impartial voice
In endorsing a Democrat for Meeting District 28, you acknowledge that the one Republican within the race, Monte Sereno Councilwoman Liz Lawler, is “well-versed on the problems,” and in addition that her aim is “to revive stability to the … one-party rule within the Legislature,” however you don’t endorse her concluding that her “conservative method” would make her “ineffective” in Sacramento.
With respect, including Liz’s “conservative method” to Sacramento, slightly than being “ineffective,” would offer a much-needed impartial voice within the Meeting.
Lon Allan
Monte Sereno
With administration, grid
is prepared for all-electric
Changing from pure gasoline to electrical home equipment in our houses will overburden our electrical grid, in keeping with Lisa Krieger’s article in at the moment’s Mercury Information (“All-electric houses are the long run; the grid isn’t prepared,” Web page A1, Could 11). In the identical Mercury Information subject, Ted Reis says in his revealed letter that the electrical grid is getting an excessive amount of electrical energy from rooftop photo voltaic. (“PG&E has photo voltaic conversion backward,” Web page A6, Could 11) What’s the disconnect right here?
Granted, balancing inflows and outflows of electrical energy is troublesome, particularly on condition that photo voltaic and wind sources are intermittent and so are greatest managed with storage of electrical energy constructed into the system. Clearly, we want efficient long-range planning and wonderful administration of our electrical grid.
Such planning relies upon upon extra uniform predictability in our provide of electrical energy over the long run. That’s another excuse why we want a carbon price and dividend coverage in our nation. As Congress considers a brand new reconciliation invoice, ask your member of Congress to incorporate carbon pricing within the invoice.
Rob Hogue
Menlo Park
County wants obligatory
water restrictions
It's ridiculous that Santa Clara County used 30% extra water in March than it did in 2019.
Much more ridiculous is that there are not any obligatory restrictions or fines for extreme water use. We now have identified that we're in a drought for a very long time. One wonders what's the hold-up.
Bob Roy
Sunnyvale
Take motion now for
our subsequent hearth season
Fireplace season has all the time been an enormous problem in California. We have to put together for hearth, work to scale back future fires and discover a approach to enhance the dire situations for the long term.
World warming and wildfire are inextricably linked. World warming causes the temperature to extend, which contributes to fireside hazards. Let’s work collectively to decelerate international warming by lowering carbon dioxide from exhaust gasoline emissions and selling low-carbonate transportation.
We should take motion on a regular basis, and never simply when summer time will get right here.
Yixin Guo
San Jose
Change punishment for
intercourse crimes in Roe’s wake
With Roe vs. Wade threatened to be overruled and ladies’s rights denied, it's time to make males extra accountable for his or her actions.
Three million girls in the USA have skilled rape-related being pregnant. These pregnancies end result from rape, tried rape, incest and prison sexual penetration. Extra severe penalties for these discovered responsible are required to guarantee girls’s security. If convicted the regulation must require sterilization and/or castration together with a sentence served for this most severe felony. Males should be held accountable. Upon turning into pregnant from this violent trauma girls face a life-changing resolution: to abort or to not abort whereas the person walks away unscathed.
Allow us to eradicate sexual abusers and rapists and deter repeat offenders. Girls should be allowed to determine what's greatest for their very own our bodies as an alternative of males or a court docket of regulation. Change punishment, change minds.
Susan Dillon
Morgan Hill
Will ‘pro-life’ Court docket
tackle weapons subsequent?
This week’s information has trumpeted the euphoric response of the intense proper to the (leaked) opinion of the bulk on the Supreme Court docket overturning the 1973 Roe vs. Wade resolution. Given the acknowledged assertions that their activism towards abortion is rooted in a powerful “pro-life” stance, I await the activists coalescing subsequent to battle the gun foyer and the rising gun violence our nation is experiencing.
What will be extra “pro-life” than taking a powerful stand banning using weapons and assault rifles towards our fellow residents in church buildings, malls, faculties, the streets we stroll?
That’s an “excessive” battle I can be a part of.
Kathleen Duryea
Los Gatos
Biden engages in wishful
financial considering
Concerning “Biden plugs initiative at Ohio metallic firm,” (Web page C1, Could 7) it’s forlorn wishful considering.
The Nice Society’s industrial coverage has sacrificed jobs within the metal, car, semiconductor, photo voltaic panel industries, and coal, oil and gasoline industries. It gained’t cease with 3D printing. Like photo voltaic panels earlier than it, when American innovation turns to revenue we promote to international capital, most just lately Chinese language.
American industrial coverage now not accommodates revenue and jobs. People are left solely with the commercial Solyndras to supply jobs. Innovation and provide chain subsidies create extra offshore than U.S. jobs. Misplaced employment won't return.
Fred Gutmann
Cupertino
Setting the report straight
An oped by Matt Mahan in Tuesday’s Opinion pages of the Mercury Information misstated the share by which Mahan believes San Jose ought to cut back the speed of homelessness annually for the following 10 years to ensure that San Jose and Santa Clara County elected officers and senior employees to get raises. The right quantity is 10%.