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Native Democrats put
deal with college boards
Thanks for publishing Sameea Kamal’s article on web page B1 of the Saturday, Aug. 20 version, relating to California Republicans’ try to take over college boards (“Republicans placing extra emphasis on native college board races“). Domestically, pro-Trump Republicans are absolutely engaged on this effort.
They don't imagine in science. They assume COVID is a hoax and that horse drugs is the answer. They don’t need our colleges to assist LGBTQ+ children or to show about slavery and racism. They don’t even need colleges to show intercourse training or spend any time on social and emotional studying. They don't replicate our neighborhood’s values and voters ought to reject their candidates.
The article suggests Democrats should not centered on this concern, however our Santa Clara County Democratic Get together actively recruited and can assist well-qualified, community-oriented candidates to oppose these MAGA-supported candidates in each single contested race. To be taught extra, go to sccdp.org/colleges.
Invoice James
Santa Clara County Democratic Get together Chair
San Jose
Article sheds gentle on
meals financial institution challenges
Thanks for the intriguing story on challenges confronted by meals banks as a result of new state regulation (“Legislation to cut back waste has added to meals financial institution woes,” Web page B1, Aug. 23).
My household helps some native meals pantries with money, canned and boxed items, however I had no appreciation of the function perishables with little remaining shelf life have on an organization like Second Harvest’s operations. It appears to me that the roads to E.coli, Shigella and Listeria are paved with good intentions.
On marvel who pays for the medical care if of us get severely sick.
Stephen Okonek
Half Moon Bay
Specific lanes are
making Hwy. 101 worse
Driving on Freeway 101 has develop into a nightmare. The wealthy sail alongside alone on toll roads and the remainder of us crawl by seeing empty roadways.
One wonders what sort of public transportation bureaucrat got here up with such an answer to utilizing our highways.
Alice Schaffer Smith
Palo Alto
Column stretches actuality
to suit GOP ideology
Thanks for persevering with to print Marc Theissen’s stuff – it instructs us all within the craft of stretching actuality to suit ideology, a key to at this time’s unhappy politics.
Working example: In his most up-to-date column “IRA received’t cut back inflation or have an effect on local weather change” (Web page A7, Aug. 25) he makes use of the work of Bjorn Lomborg, a famous statistician who likes to fake to be a public mental however as a substitute makes use of numbers to defy, deny and subvert actuality. However then that's what Theissen can be so excellent at – within the phrases of Mark Twain, “lies, damned lies, and statistics.”
Birds of a feather, get the flock out of right here.
Walter Hudson
San Jose
Iran nuke deal should
guarantee no weapons
A nuclear cope with Iran is essential but it surely should stop them from growing nuclear weapons.
The stumbling block of the brand new deal is identical because the final deal – Iran nonetheless refuses to permit full inspections of secret underground nuclear weapon improvement websites. The results of Iran’s harmful quest to develop into a nuclear energy has decreased its GDP by 66% since 2012.
A nuclear deal with out ample safeguards would solely assist the Mullahs speed up their nuclear weapons improvement and enhance nuclear proliferation on this planet.
Ed Kahl
Woodside