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Don’t toss Little League;
do away with politicians
Closing the Eastridge Little League subject is a lead balloon. On July 17, Eastridge Little League will probably be no extra. For 50 years, underserved children locally have performed ball right here. Now Santa Clara County supervisors need to evict these children for a lead drawback on the airport that a county report reveals doesn't exist. And mayoral candidate Cindy Chavez stays steadfast that closing the fields remains to be the appropriate determination; she is satisfied that lead – a heavy metallic – has fallen in all places however the airport.
It isn’t the youngsters that ought to be thrown out of the ballpark. It's Cindy Chavez and the opposite politicians that should be thrown out of this recreation. They aren’t looking for the group; they're looking for builders.
Michael McDonald
Sunnyvale
As nation regresses,
state ought to assume exit
I can't agree extra with Joe Mathews (“California wants to arrange to secede from the nation,” Web page A6, July 1). The USA now not works for Californians. It was a terrific thought for a rural nation within the 18th century however is irrelevant to the challenges going through us within the twenty first century. As a progressive, I’m so uninterested in appeals to fund this or that (wonderful and well-meaning) particular person to avoid wasting pink or purple states from themselves once we may very well be spending the cash on a “no-fault-divorce” secession modification.
Republicans should be salivating over the prospect of a Home of Representatives with out the overwhelmingly blue California delegation. The diploma to which we're under-represented within the Senate is disgraceful: we've 1/eighty fifth of a senator for every “Wyoman.”
Seth Neumann
Mountain View
Courtroom gun ruling
sends us backward
Re. “U.S. Supreme Courtroom expands gun rights,” Web page A1, June 24:
Within the 1993 western movie “Tombstone,” Sam Elliot, portraying Virgil Earp, is seen tacking a brand new metropolis gun ordinance to a publish. As an indignant crowd gathers, he proclaims, “Nobody’s saying you may’t personal a gun. Nobody’s saying you may’t carry a gun. You simply can’t carry a gun on the town.”
It all the time amazes me how typically the teachings of historical past are forgotten or ignored. If the cowboys in Tombstone had complied, essentially the most well-known western shootout on the OK Corral would by no means have occurred.
I don’t assume we actually need to return to the Wild West of the Eighteen Eighties.
Barry Hennings
Los Altos
A lot proof exists
to again up Christianity
I used to be deeply saddened by Mathew Clark’s latest letter attacking faith as “unscientific, irrational, unproven”; “Church buildings are breeding floor for excessive ideologies”; and “there isn't a proof of God or afterlife.”(“Faith has an excessive amount of sway over life in U.S.,” Web page A6, June 30)
I attempt to stay a Christian life, and I attempt to be as considerate and caring as I can. I do know no ebook has been as critically examined because the Bible. It lists names, dates, occasions, rulers and kingdoms, all simply verifiable. There are extra written eyewitness accounts of Jesus than of George Washington. Not like superstition, religion has proof.
Church buildings have been unquestionably the leaders in offering for the poor and needy all through our historical past. As for proof of God, I’d begin with the actual fact of existence itself.
Proof, finally, is that which convinces you. The overwhelming proof I discover greater than convinces me of the reality of Christianity — regardless of the various failures of individuals like me.
Norm Smith
Daly Metropolis
We'd like extra instruments
than gasoline tax vacation
Re. “Biden requires federal gasoline tax vacation,” Web page A1, June 23:
In response to the U.S. Power Data Administration, about $1 of the rise in gas costs is a results of larger refinery revenue margins.
It is because refinery decommissioning in 2020 lowered capability by about 5%.
As individuals returned to work this yr, refinery utilization climbed again above 90%, making a state of affairs the place gas use is constrained to match provide as a result of excessive worth.
This has two essential penalties:
• Slicing the gasoline tax will enhance refiners’ earnings moderately than decreasing gasoline costs, since consumption needs to be restricted to match provide.
• If People can minimize gas consumption by about 5% for causes aside from sheer unaffordability, we are able to convey refinery margins again down, and minimize $1 off the price of gasoline.
The mix of a tire inflation marketing campaign, EVs and environment friendly new autos, bikes and ebikes, carpooling, distant workplace work normalization, and improved transit utilization can try this.
David Sacerdote
Palo Alto