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Cupertino management
has hobbled town
When will the Cupertino Metropolis Council approve a proposal for improvement at Vallco? The group has waited six years for the Metropolis Council to approve one thing. The developer has made a number of proposals that every one fail.
In November two new Metropolis Council members will likely be chosen by the voters. Darcy Paul will likely be gone in 2023. Hopefully, Cupertino residents acknowledge that “Higher Cupertino” has been a failure, particularly in terms of Vallco. The misplaced income to town and colleges runs into tens of millions of dollars.
Over the past 4 years when Darcy Paul has been mayor, six metropolis managers have come and gone. The administration construction on the Metropolis Council appears to be inflicting loads of issues.
Jon Ramos
San Jose
Prop. 28 would profit
colleges and college students
It’s staggering that the Editorial Board would opine on Proposition 28 (“Don't lock in additional California college spending,” Web page A6, Aug. 12) with out talking with anybody concerned with the initiative – academics, college households, entrepreneurs, artists and group leaders. If that they had, they might have gotten their details straight.
“Center of the pack” is a meaningless comparability when the group consists of the likes of Arkansas and Mississippi, which battle to offer even the fundamentals in class lecture rooms.
In 2019-20, per pupil funding in Los Angeles was about $17,000 versus $30,000 for New York Metropolis. Barely 1 in 5 public colleges in California provide full-time artwork or music packages whereas virtually 4 in 5 do in New York as a result of they've satisfactory funds to take action.
Prop. 28 will create a brighter future for public college youngsters in California and ensure the workforce in media, expertise and leisure higher displays the range in our colleges.
Austin Beutner
Los Angeles
Inhabitants a drag
on Lake Mead
The letter that Paula Danz submitted on Aug. 9 (“Work almost carried out on local weather, spending invoice,” Web page A6) and the column by Leonard Pitts Jr. on July 31 (“The growing theme for 2022 is it’s the 12 months [bleep] bought actual for us,” Web page A13) solely inform a part of the story.
Lake Mead actually is quite a bit decrease than the Sixties, and I agree this 20-year mega-drought is usually accountable. Nevertheless, Lake Mead provides water to a few states: Arizona, Nevada and California. Within the Sixties the inhabitants of those three states was a mixed 18 million. At the moment it's greater than 49 million. Add to that farmers want extra acreage to feed the increasing inhabitants.
As we proceed approving extra jobs and industrial improvement, we'll by no means remedy our water woes and housing scarcity. It’s a vicious and dropping cycle.
Sure, Lake Mead isn't as good because it was within the Sixties, nevertheless, Mom Nature isn't the one offender.
Joseph Gemignani
San Jose
Letter mischaracterizes
Trump’s Jan. 6 speech
Ronna Devincenzi’s Aug 7, 2022, Letter “Media ignores coronary heart of Trump’s Jan. 6 speech” (Web page A6) illustrates how Trumpers present Donald Trump deniability for his insurrectionist actions.
Trump’s Jan. 6 speech contained almost 11,000 phrases; Devincenzi centered solely on these 22 phrases: “I do know that everybody right here will quickly be marching over to the Capitol constructing to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.” Devincenzi ignores the 8,549 phrases that adopted the place Trump tells Mike Pence to carry out an unconstitutional act to overturn the vote of the Electoral Faculty. Did these hundreds of Trumpers act “peacefully and patriotically”? No. They attacked police injuring 114, inflicting the deaths of 4, and raised a scaffold on the Capitol steps chanting, “Cling Mike Pence.”
The place was Trump? Watching TV for 187 minutes whereas a mob of insurrectionists was trying to overthrow the federal government. Trump did nothing to cease the riot.
Thomas Roza
Campbell
GOP possession
can’t be exorcised
These days, the GOP vaguely jogged my memory of one thing however what? Then after the Mar-a-Lago search, it hit me. Demonic possession films.
The GOP wants an exorcism. Couldn’t be clearer after its response to the Mar-a-Lago search. Identical to when the possessed is sprinkled with holy water within the films, being introduced with the reality resulted within the GOP’s vehement outbursts of denial, threats and hatred.
The reality is that Donald Trump took paperwork he had no proper to own. Mar-a-Lago was searched legally. It was essential as a result of Trump lied about not having the paperwork. Instantly, the GOP spewed out threats towards AG Merrick Garland and the FBI. They made up tales of Trump having standing declassification procedures after which modified their thoughts to say the paperwork have been planted. No matter lies would possibly by some means achieve traction.
Scary stuff and, sadly, nobody is aware of the right way to exorcise the GOP on this real-world horror story.
Todd Lowenstein
San Jose