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Google campus will
exacerbate housing ills
With the development of the brand new Google campus, there can be an inflow of individuals shifting to the Bay Space. Folks see California because the land of alternative and as their golden ticket to success. However is that this actually a possibility when persons are not capable of afford to stay right here?
The housing disaster in San Jose is growing by the day. Many individuals are being hollowed out or just can't afford a home. The quantity of housing obtainable doesn't mirror the town’s inhabitants and employment alternatives. Many people are working minimal wage jobs and might barely afford lease not to mention a mortgage. That is driving out the center class. That is giving individuals an incentive to not transfer to the Bay Space.
Highway building is required, however housing is extra essential.
Jennifer Salim
San Jose
California wants
Chen for controller
Lanhee Chen is the controller California wants. Our tax dollars must be spent the best way California voters supposed.
As our unbiased watchdog, he'll expose how and the place our cash is spent. I've listened to Lanhee Chen for years. He jogs my memory of an amazing trainer who explains issues in a transparent and galvanizing method so we perceive the details. We'd not all agree on how and the place the state spends our tax dollars, however all of us should understand how and the place it's spent.
Lanhee Chen will use the authority of his workplace to look at state applications that could be ripe for fraud, resembling Medi-Cal and the unemployment insurance coverage program. He'll ask robust questions like why had been no-bid contracts given to main donors and the way a lot will pension funds owe as soon as retirement advantages come due.
Vote for Lanhee Chen for sincere accountability.
John Stanton
Sunnyvale
Eshoo’s well being care
report is unimpeachable
I’m disheartened and upset that Anna Eshoo’s opponent has chosen to misrepresent her report.
She’s at all times been a champion of sufferers and her constituents. Over the course of her years in public service, she has gained invaluable well being care experience and is the primary lady to chair the Home well being subcommittee.
We’re beneficiaries of her experience and seniority. She’s labored to allow Medicare to barter for decrease drug costs, to handle gun violence and to help selection and privateness rights.
Two weeks in the past I visited her workplace in Washington, D.C., to advocate for most cancers analysis and early detection payments. Anna has a report of getting payments handed and signed into legislation. These payments, resembling one making it potential for reimbursement for reconstruction for breast most cancers sufferers, change lives.
I'm grateful for her service and dedication, and to bettering the well being and welfare of all.
Homosexual J. Crawford
Saratoga
We don’t want weapons
for self-defense
Re. “6 damage in Oakland faculty capturing,” Web page A1, Sept. 29:
This perpetual gun violence and limitless lack of beneficial human lives is shameful, stunning and irritating. We're a laughing inventory.
It's a pity that our nice nation can't take care of its personal individuals however is ever able to wage warfare and assist oppressors all world wide. Gun violence and the killing of harmless individuals should cease.
Bearing weapons to guard oneself just isn't needed. There are different methods and means. David didn't want a gun to guard him from Goliath.
Esmail S. Essabhoy
Palo Alto
Fraud is rampant
in Medicare system
For at the very least the final 15 years the Medicare Belief Fund has wrongfully paid tens of billions of taxpayer dollars to the medical health insurance trade by means of the deeply flawed program often known as Medicare Benefit.
Medicare Benefit is a part of the Medicare system. The Division of Justice has sued Kaiser for $1 billion for Medicare fraud, the Authorities Accountability Workplace lists Medicare on its high-risk listing, and the American Hospital Affiliation, representing 5,000 hospitals, is dealing with unprecedented monetary hardship, and people on conventional Medicare pay larger half B premiums all because of the many issues related to Medicare Benefit applications.
Each Democrats and Republicans obtain marketing campaign contributions from this trade and each events are remaining silent because the medical health insurance trade continues to fleece the Medicare Belief Fund. It's lengthy overdue that our representatives who're paid to signify our pursuits start to take action.
Anne Bossange
Saratoga
Iranian ladies
want our help
Re. “Iranian lawmaker slams protests as cleric requires calm,” Sept. 27:
From refined clothes restrictions to outright homicide in Iran, ladies are removed from reaching autonomy over their very own our bodies.
The violence in Iran is a magnified illustration of the microaggressions in opposition to ladies. No, we don't put on garments to “entice male consideration,” as Iranian lawmaker Mahmoud Nabavian believes.
To Iranian ladies and protesters – we hear you, and we stand with you.
Shannon Ma
Saratoga