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District 3 wants
councilman who cares
Re. “Metropolis chief desires ‘pause’ on tiny houses,” Web page B1, Aug. 2:
With out arguing the deserves of tiny houses or debating the most effective place to place them, I couldn't assist however discover that Metropolis Council Consultant David Cohen fights for District 4.
I dwell in District 3 and our council consultant, Raul Peralez, has by no means stood up for our pursuits. His incapability to guard the residents in District 3 has resulted within the placement of roughly 50% of all providers and services to serve the homeless in our district.
Many individuals in surrounding encampments are merely unable to seek out housing they will afford. However our neighborhoods are besieged by individuals who sleep, urinate and defecate within the streets, act out in unusual methods, wander round barefoot and generally unclothed.
Right here’s hoping the following election will get us a consultant like Cohen, who will demand an equitable distribution of providers throughout the entire metropolis. District 3 can’t carry all the load.
Judith Hurley
San Jose
Info don’t help
closing Reid-Hillview
Re. “City neighborhood no place for airport,” and “After crash, it’s time to shut Reid-Hillview,” Letters to the Editor, Web page A6, Aug. 2:
Mr. Estrada and Ms. Bauer of their latest letters revealed Aug. 2, clearly don’t settle for the essential information regarding Reid Hillview Airport: (a) that the lead examine commissioned by the county “discovered that soil samples taken at Reid-Hillview Airport in San Jose didn't comprise lead ranges that exceed native, state or federal requirements” (Mercury Information, June 11) and (b) that the airport predates any residential growth within the space, having been established in 1942.
Whereas it is very important work collectively on all sides for the way forward for the airport, it's doubly essential to stay centered on the information and never unfold false info.
Chris Verbil
Los Altos
Liz Cheney incomes
a spot of honor
Rep. Liz Cheney will go down as probably the most honorable ladies within the historical past of our nation. Even understanding she's going to almost certainly be voted out of workplace, her purpose as vice chairwoman of the Jan. 6 Choose Committee is to show that there has by no means been a higher risk to our republic than Donald Trump. And her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, agrees in full.
Additionally, her remark that “males are working the world” is a reference to what I feel must be thought-about as “the elephant within the room”: testosterone.
Dick Gaskill
Los Gatos
With extremists,
violence is similar
Final week, a violent man, alleged to be New Jersey resident Hadi Mater, stabbed and tried to kill Salman Rushdie, a very harmless man, who as soon as was the topic of a Fatwa, or an order to kill, by Ayatollah Khomeini, then the extremist chief of Iran, as a result of the Ayatollah didn’t like or agree with Rushdie’s opinions.
Additionally this week, one other violent man, alleged to be Ohio resident Ricky Shiffer, was shot and killed by authorities when he tried to forcibly breach the FBI workplace in Cincinnati, after issuing a number of violent calls to arms in opposition to the FBI throughout social media. He was apparently motivated by former President Trump’s excessive, partisan claims in regards to the FBI concerning the lawful execution of a warrant at Trump’s dwelling which Trump didn't like nor agree with.
Inform me, what’s the distinction?
David Herlich
Morgan Hill
Cease promoting
prescribed drugs
I consider most Individuals have no idea that the US and New Zealand are the one two nations on the earth that enable prescribed drugs to be marketed to most of the people through mass media. This could by no means be allowed and is a travesty. The cash spent on this promoting may go a really lengthy option to cut back prescription drug costs.
These medicine ought to solely be marketed to licensed physicians that may prescribe them and have the data to know what's greatest and proper for his or her sufferers. Promoting in medical journals — however by no means on to most of the people — is okay and what was the legislation. I couldn't even start to estimate the sum of money spent on media promoting by pharmaceutical corporations. It must be in opposition to the legislation.
I urge everybody to contact their congressperson and beseech them to maneuver to alter this legislation.
Harriet Fernandez
San Jose