Submit your letter to the editor by way of this way. Learn extra Letters to the Editor.
PG&E cash creates
look of battle
ABC’s KGO-TV reported in February that PG&E was quietly declared a “secure firm” by Gov. Newsom after sparking California wildfires.
Is that this a coincidence, or a $200,000 battle of curiosity within the governor’s job of policing the PG&E monopoly?
When Newsweek requested Gov. Newsom about PG&E’s donations to his spouse’s nonprofit, his reply was, “There’s no correlation, interval, full cease. Completely none.”
PG&E is now failing to ship energy to tens of hundreds of shoppers as a result of its new shutoff software program is disconnecting disturbed traces on the drop of a hat (or the drop of a lifeless squirrel).
On this try and keep away from one other wildfire lawsuit, PG&E is inviting a brand new sort of lawsuit when grandma falls down the steps at nighttime throughout a shutoff.
Curtis Panasuk
Santa Cruz
Politicians pulled
a quick one on voters
Re. “Voters lengthen leaders’ phrases,” Web page A1, July 18:
Residents are over-taxed and overburdened. What justification is there for spending $3.2M on once more polling residents and voting simply because these politicians weren't pleased with the primary end result?
I firmly imagine that after phrases are set, candidates must be voted on and when their phrases are up, then they should vacate and discover one other job.
What number of years can candidates efficiently do a proactive and unbiased job with out their self-serving pursuits?
Political representatives are making it tougher and tougher for the typical individual to outlive on this metropolis. This self-serving apply must cease. When representatives don't get their means one other vote is positioned on the poll. And once more, taxpayers pay for a political whim.
Our tax dollars have to be higher spent. Cease the abuse of the residents. No extra bogus voting.
Maria Reyes
San Jose
League does extra
than register voters
Have been you stunned to learn that the League of Ladies Voters of Cupertino-Sunnyvale was suing town of Cupertino? The League does much more than register voters.
The League was based in 1920 and works to advertise the knowledgeable and energetic participation of residents in authorities. Generally it takes a lawsuit to make clear or shield residents’ rights.
I’m proud to have been a member of the League since 1969. All ladies and men are welcome to hitch.
Barbara Wardenburg
San Carlos
To assist setting,
reduce on meat
File warmth waves in America and Europe endanger hundreds of thousands, as wildfires rage, in a brutal manifestation of man-induced world warming.
Every of us can cut back our private contribution by reducing again on the consumption of animal meals, which account for a whopping portion of greenhouse gases. Carbon dioxide is launched by burning forests to create animal pastures. Methane and nitrous oxide are launched from the digestive tracts of cows and sheep and from animal waste pits.
In an environmentally sustainable world, greens, fruits and grains should exchange animal meals merchandise in our weight-reduction plan, simply as wind, photo voltaic and different renewable power sources exchange fossil fuels. The subsequent journey to our favourite grocery store gives an incredible alternative to discover the scrumptious, healthful, eco-friendly plant-based meat and ice cream merchandise within the frozen meals part.
Ralph Findley
San Jose
Damaged electoral system
begs for brand new get together
David Brooks in “We must always concern even larger turmoil for the following six years” (Web page A13, July 17) observes six causes that Individuals are disgusted with present administration coverage. Causation might be laid to poor management ensuing from our damaged electoral system that has developed into polarized politics that's helpless to deal with a plethora of issues exacerbated by poor coverage. Sadly, makes an attempt at a third-party resolution in the US have at all times failed.
A begin could be the elimination of the pointless workplace of vice-president. Maybe a brand new get together could possibly be fashioned by the likes of Joe Manchin who has saved us, not less than briefly, from the inflationary spending of Construct Again Higher and the socialist Inexperienced New Deal program.
Brooks needs a throwback to Theodore Roosevelt’s model of progressivism. I voted for Henry Clay within the final two presidential elections. I hope Brooks has extra affect towards effecting elementary change.
Fred Gutmann
Cupertino