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Guadalupe River Park
an incredible concept forgotten
Fairly a couple of years in the past I used to be delighted when town fathers determined to develop and enhance the Guadalupe River because it handed by means of the guts of town. My spouse and I have been desirous to stroll alongside the newly developed space and had a pleasing day doing so.
A couple of days in the past we took the stroll once more. What a disappointment. As an alternative of discovering a well-maintained, clear space with lush new development and plentiful wildlife, we noticed a complete mess: weeds and trash in all places, together with within the river itself. As an alternative of murals on the wall, there was graffiti and homeless folks and their messy encampments.
I sympathize with individuals who have been pressured from their properties by laborious occasions. However after spending bundles of cash to beautify the realm it seems that the venture has been completely deserted. Simply one other good concept that's now ignored.
Gerald Caldwell
San Jose
Nothing mistaken with photo voltaic
properties paying for grid
Marshal Merriam argues that owners with photo voltaic panels mustn't need to pay for his or her grid companies, evaluating them to cellular phone customers who surrender their landlines (“It’s the mistaken time to punish photo voltaic customers,” Web page A6, Aug. 17). The deceptive comparability highlights a typical misperception about rooftop photo voltaic.
Only a few properties with photo voltaic installations are fully disconnected from the grid. Most depend on PG&E’s costly distribution community to safe a steady provide of electrical energy. Many individuals are actually producing their very own photo voltaic electrical energy and aren't paying their justifiable share to assist preserve the grid, and they're fairly completely different from cellular phone customers who've given up their landlines. The present settlement with photo voltaic households is overly beneficiant and unsustainable, shifting an growing share of the grid upkeep burden to non-solar households.
My house has photo voltaic panels, and I'm completely prepared to pay an applicable mounted payment for my useful underground landline to PG&E’s grid.
Doug Peterson
San Jose
Implement single-issue
rule for poll measures
Proposition 26 versus Proposition 27 reveals what’s mistaken with the initiative course of, but additionally factors the way in which to a easy resolution.
A primary requirement of an initiative is that it should handle just one difficulty, a requirement continually ignored. Proposition 27 is an initiative to approve on-line gaming in order that it may be taxed with the cash to be earmarked to deal with homelessness. What in the event you’re in favor of on-line playing however against the homeless?
First, it’s a foul concept to tie the state price range to single-issue poll measures. Second, it confuses the difficulty at hand. Proposition 27 proponents say Proposition 26 offers nothing to assist the homeless. However that’s not the basic query on the poll the voters are being requested to resolve.
The secretary of state ought to implement the one-issue rule so the voters can clearly specific their will on the essential query.
Dave Riggs
Aptos
Cheney’s stand reveals
precept is paramount
Re. “Cheney concentrating on Trump killed reelection hopes,” Web page A6, Aug. 28:
Ernie Konnyu belittles Rep. Liz Cheney’s stand towards former U.S. President Donald Trump, after he incited the Jan. 6, 2021, violent far-right revolt towards the U.S. Capitol. You ask why she would sacrifice her profession by making an attempt to carry Trump accountable for betraying his vow to guard the U.S. Structure.
Why? As a result of she selected rules over occasion, integrity over kowtowing to ‘King’ Trump. You act perplexed as a result of her braveness spotlights the cowardice fellow Republican lawmakers have displayed since Trump’s failed coup. That they had an opportunity to question Trump for a transparent crime towards American democracy however fumbled the possibility to free their occasion from his stranglehold.
Liz Cheney misplaced her congressional seat as a result of she refused to drink the Kool-Assist that's Trumpism. She's going to certainly be remembered as a political hero. Mr. Konnyu, there are extra essential issues than successful.
Rita Girman
San Jose
Mounting proof means
Trump received’t run once more
Donald Trump will be unable to run for president ever once more.
The Jan. 6 committee and the Mueller report did a unprecedented job in revealing the reality about our former president’s efficiency. With all of the proof they introduced, it's past doubt that Trump dedicated a number of felony offenses.
Trump misplaced the favored vote and was solely elected president due to our outdated electoral faculty system. His presidency can be graded because the worst ever. I'm certain that Barack Obama did and nonetheless does really feel disappointment, after inviting Donald Trump into the White Home and conceding the presidency to him, in regards to the execution of Trump’s presidential mandate.
Sadly, Trump nonetheless believes that he's our president. In any other case, his response to the DOJ in requesting the return of the paperwork he illegally faraway from the White Home is inconceivable.
Wilhelmus Vuist
Campbell