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Heads ought to roll athapless housing company
Re. “Housing company takes $13M loss in sale,” Web page B1, Oct. 3:
It’s sadly ironic that the Santa Clara County Housing Authority misplaced $13 million of taxpayer cash on an ill-advised actual property buy adopted by a sale lower than two years later after they realized it was a awful selection for its headquarters.
Thoughts you, that is the company whose sole cost is to bolster and encourage the creation of reasonably priced housing within the county. Is it any surprise that the company continues to fail miserably at its major mission when it could’t even make wise monetary choices by itself behalf? After all, one wonders why any heads haven’t rolled.
Nick CochranSan Jose
Wang, Mehlinger forSunnyvale council
I write to precise my wholehearted help of Justin Wang and Richard Mehlinger for Sunnyvale Metropolis Council.
I served with each on the board of Livable Sunnyvale. I'm deeply impressed by their capability for teamwork; their ardour for housing, transportation and sustainability; and the huge coverage experience they bring about to the desk.
Sunnyvale is not a small city. It's the second largest metropolis in Santa Clara County and residential to a few of the largest firms on the planet. Our metropolis faces critical challenges, reminiscent of site visitors security, local weather change and the housing disaster, amongst others. If we're going to meet these challenges, we'd like contemporary concepts and daring voices.
Richard and Justin have the expertise, experience and braveness to fulfill the challenges our group faces head-on. They're precisely what Sunnyvale wants to steer us ahead. Depend me as their private reference.
Angela RauschSunnyvale
Elect educators toCupertino faculty board
Cupertino presently has a beautiful group of individuals on the college board. The selections they've made over time have stored Cupertino extremely rated for schooling.
The present members up for election, Satheesh Madhathil and Jerry Liu, should be reelected. Ava Chiao is a highschool instructor, somebody who will convey instructional expertise to the college board.
Darcy Paul was on the Cupertino Metropolis Council and lacks the qualifications to be a faculty board member. His expertise on the Metropolis Council introduced us the present vacant lot at Vallco. Voters want folks within the instructional area to run the college board, not a politician.
Jon RamosSan Jose
Cease huge cashfrom shopping for elections
I'm so sick of the Silicon Valley titans interfering in our elections by shelling out 1000's to tons of of hundreds of thousands in our elections.
There are solely two causes they do that: No. 1, they don’t suppose the candidate can win on their very own deserves, and No. 2, that candidate is the one they know will help their wants. The Zuckerbergs did it by contributing $400 million to the Biden marketing campaign and now the 49ers are following go well with.
That is referred to as shopping for elections, and one thing needs to be executed to cease these outrageous contributions in order that the folks whose on a regular basis lives are affected by the end result have the say, not the almighty greenback to outspend the opposing candidates who attraction to the folks they are going to serve.
Sharon WangsnessSan Jose
State doesn’t appearhonest on local weather
Re. “Payments OK new housing on industrial land,” Web page B1, Sept. 29:
When the federal government exempts constructing initiatives from the environmental assessment course of just like the behemoth high-speed rail or building of 100% reasonably priced housing initiatives (AB 2011), it makes one surprise about their priorities and even sincerity.
Is the setting actually that vital to the federal government if accountability is definitely exchanged for expediency and incentive? One wonders if these situations are imposed merely to train energy and management.
Kathryn TomainoLos Altos
Article is admirablehowever brief on element
Re. “Focus diet: Veg-ucation,” Web page B15, Oct. 2:
Whereas I appreciated the “Focus diet: Veg-ucation” article in Sunday’s paper, two issues troubled me: First, the article’s unhappy lack of knowledge in regards to the significance of fiber. As a substitute, the article skewed closely towards discussing protein. Fiber is certainly our pal. A few of the advantages of fiber: It could assist scale back the danger of weight problems, coronary heart illness and diabetes along with serving to one’s digestive tract.
A Mayo Clinic article about fiber mentions many meals pictured on the backside of the article’s “pyramid” which might be superb sources of fiber.
Second, the article’s sub-section “A tricky row to hoe” ought to have expanded on details about the diets of the vegans/vegetarians talked about, particularly people who went again to consuming meat due to “declining well being.” It made this vegetarian surprise what they have been (or weren't) together with of their weight loss program. Extra information ought to have been offered.
Thanks for the article.
Tina MorrillSan Jose