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Donkey rescue is
an inspirational story
In a world seemingly crammed with adversity on so many ranges, your article “It’s a donkey child growth at sanctuary,” (Web page B1, Aug. 8) about Ron King’s rescuing and rehoming efforts on behalf of needy donkeys – particularly mares and their offspring – was heart-warming and galvanizing.
King gave up different profitable and high-exposure endeavors and devoted his money and time to the loving care of those animals – right down to their most detailed wants.
Thanks, Mr. King, for Oscar’s Place, and thanks, Joan Morris, for sharing this story.
Linda Michener
Santa Clara
Article sells harm
from new mine brief
Re. “Blended conclusions on mine proposal,” Web page A1, July 30:
The article reporting on the not too long ago launched draft EIR for the proposed Sargent Mine was egregiously one-sided, and inappropriately downplayed the anticipated ecological and cultural impacts detailed within the affect report.
The proposed mine would irreversibly destroy one of many final remaining indigenous cultural websites (the Juristac Tribal Cultural Panorama) in Amah Mutsun territory not but desecrated by growth. But as an alternative of detailing this reality, the author wrote that the report confirmed “solely reasonable impacts” would end result to “tribal archaeological websites.” The report clearly particulars “important and unavoidable” impacts to tribal cultural assets regardless of mitigation measures.
The writer additionally severely downplays – and poorly characterizes – impacts to wildlife. If allowed, this may be not one, however a number of hilltop-removal operations on probably the most essential wildlife hall within the Monterey Bay.
To prime it off, the author offers the final phrase within the article to a disgusting assertion from Verne Freeman.
Benny Drescher
Santa Cruz
Chen respects controller
job’s boundaries
Re. “For state controller, Chen affords steadiness, neutral oversight,” Web page A6, Aug. 2:
It's refreshing to see extra editorial boards in California endorsing Lanhee Chen, the Republican candidate for state controller. Voters who need change in California ought to look towards Lanhee for a similar causes.
We'd like an unbiased fiscal watchdog who focuses on making certain tax cash goes the place it must. As an alternative of a candidate that treats the controller place as a platform to combat for points hardly associated to the job, we want somebody who guarantees to audit state spending and expose waste. Taking these actions will help clarify why the state fails to fight skyrocketing housing costs, a failing training system, fiscal irresponsibility, and unemployment fraud, to call a number of.
California doesn't want extra politicians to cozy as much as the one-party monopoly in Sacramento and fail to create actual change. Lanhee understands and respects the boundaries of the controller’s job, particularly for an workplace meant to be unbiased.
Calvin Zhou
San Jose
Rioters took totally different
message from Trump
In her Aug. 7 letter (“Media ignores coronary heart of Trump’s Jan. 6 speech”, Web page A12) Ronna Devincenzi admonishes The Mercury Information for failing to report on what was arguably the one sane line in Donald Trump’s in any other case incendiary speech.
Based on Devincenzi, this line, by which Trump remarks that “everybody right here will quickly be marching over to the Capitol constructing to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard” was “a key takeaway for me that day.” Whereas that could be good for her, I’m fairly certain that the military of indignant and misguided Trump supporters – those who violently assaulted the Capitol instantly after being whipped right into a frenzy by Trump’s litany of stolen election lies and exhortations like “We combat like hell and when you don’t combat like hell, you’re not going to have a rustic anymore” – garnered a totally totally different “key takeaway” from his speech that day.
Matt Ward
San Carlos
Israel has a proper
to strike terrorist PIJ
Palestinian Islamic Jihad is a terrorist group that’s objective is to ascertain an Islamic state from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.
Extra Gaza youngsters had been killed by PIJ on this spherical of combating than by the Israelis. They shoot rockets and missiles indiscriminately and hope they kill Jews, however typically they miss and kill their very own individuals. About 20% of their rockets fell brief and stayed in Gaza.
Israel is now taking the combat to them, not ready to be attacked first. When you find yourself coping with terrorists who don’t care who they kill, you don’t want to attend for them to assault first.
Hamas, one other terrorist group that guidelines Gaza, is unable or unwilling to manage the PIJ and the identical might be mentioned in regards to the Fatah rulers within the West Financial institution. Israel is justified in taking motion to guard herself.
Gil Stein
Aptos