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S.J. workforce points
driving people from metropolis
Re. “To construct a greater San Jose, begin by filling 800-plus jobs,” Web page A6, June 8:
I'm fairly certain that many of the residents of San Jose agree that the salaries of metropolis staff have to be aggressive, however the visitor editorial by Jean Cohen and Derrick Seaver solely addresses half of the issue.
Our leaders additionally have to take a protracted, exhausting look, division by division, about what different kinds of issues are essential to do. Our police division has barely half the variety of law enforcement officials as similar-sized cities and is overburdened by staff in different departments who hold including increasingly employees to do increasingly issues which have achieved little to unravel our primary issues.
People who find themselves leaving the world have figured this out. Maybe it's time the remainder of us do as nicely.
Thomas Scott
Morgan Hill
$800M Newsom pledge
solely a begin for local weather
In his most up-to-date funds request, Gov. Gavin Newsom pledged almost $800 million to protect California’s lands and waters and to tackle local weather change. That is much-needed, as local weather change is the best risk going through the planet’s well being. However it’s only a first step.
The science is obvious: We should defend 30% of all lands and waters by 2030 to cease the worst results of local weather change. Newsom has made essential strides towards this objective, but when we’re critical about attaining it, we have to dedicate extra funding to those efforts, together with funding for shoreline safety, for biodiversity conservation, and for making our communities extra resilient.
None of us are proof against the consequences of local weather change, and if we’re going to take it on, we have to work collectively and defend our lands and waters so generations to return can stay in sturdy communities on a thriving planet.
Mary Buxton
30 x 30 Job Pressure, Sierra Membership Loma Prieta Chapter
Monte Sereno
Our priorities on weapons
are out of whack
Based on the newest information studies, Sens. John Thune and Invoice Cassidy imagine that it’s extra essential to guard the rights of hunters going after prairie canines and raccoons with AR-15s than it's to guard the lives of our youngsters.
Between the 2 of them, these senators have accepted contributions in extra of $3.5 million from the NRA. This pales compared to the $13.6 million that Sen. Mitt Romney receives, nevertheless, it doesn’t clarify why it’s extra essential to guard the rights of individuals to shoot prairie canines and raccoons than it's to guard our youngsters.
Dona Nichols
San Jose
Regardless of U.S. assist,
Ukraine falters in conflict
I may have stated, I advised you so, but it surely’s too late now. It seemed just like the Ukrainians had been profitable the conflict in opposition to Russia, whose troops had been starting to retreat. Now, President Biden signed a invoice to offer Ukraine costlier weapons together with superior missiles. Are they profitable now? No, Russia is pummeling them with much more weapons.
Peace negotiations may have saved hundreds of lives and tons of taxpayer dollars. It was silly to assume a small nation like Ukraine may defeat a nation the scale of Russia. If Russia did lose, they might solely regroup for an additional conflict later.
Invoice Graham
Salinas
New legal guidelines gained’t cease
mass shootings
The Letters to the Editor part has just lately been stuffed with issues for extra gun legal guidelines, however sadly, extra new legal guidelines won't ever clear up the issue or finish the frustration.
Stroll into components of San Jose on any night time and stroll out with the gun of your alternative; handgun, rifle or shotgun together with all of the ammunition you'll be able to carry. No background test, no ready interval, no type of I.D. required; the one factor wanted is money. Individuals with evil of their hearts will readily promote their wares to different folks with evil of their hearts. Criminals don’t care about gun legal guidelines. Criminals don’t care about human life.
The way in which to finish the violence is to cease the criminals. It’s more practical than the Band-Assist of “really feel good” gun laws.
Alberto Contrera
San Jose
Implement current legal guidelines
to sluggish gun violence
Janet Darrow (“To vary the regulation vote out GOP first,” Letters to the Editor, Web page A6, June 7) believes that Republicans bear all blame for gun violence in the US and may all be voted out as a way to cross legal guidelines to unravel the issue.
But Republicans had been way back voted out of Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York and different darkish blue cities. The physique counts in these locations don’t appear to assist her concept. Possibly exhibiting a confirmed monitor report of success somewhat than a long time of failure could be a greater start line for the argument to insert a nationwide one-party rule.
Implementing current legal guidelines is a greater concept than pretending to unravel issues with new legal guidelines that no person will implement.
Dave Atala
San Jose