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Bay Space cities should
do extra on housing
Re. “Single household residence in Oakland sells for $2.1 million,” Nov. 8:
Studying this killed me a bit of on the within. I doubt my technology would be capable of afford to purchase a home when single-family properties are going for $2.1 million.
What are we presupposed to do when mortgage funds for a home are increased than a family’s month-to-month revenue? Transfer someplace cheaper? Homes are getting costlier and wages have been stagnating. Rising up within the Bay Space, it could suck to go away, however that appears to be the one possible possibility for our technology aside from rooming with a number of pals or dwelling with our mother and father.
Cities within the Bay Space want extra accessible housing for individuals who can’t afford to spend 80% of their paycheck a month simply on lease.
Lewis Liu
San Jose
Schooling board ought to
embrace democracy
The appointment course of by the Santa Clara County Board of Schooling is a side-step to democracy. An appointment course of could also be authorized however is it simply and truthful? We've elections for a purpose. An appointment course of silences the voters, marginalizes participation, and is an assault on voting rights.
This Board ought to do precisely what they train. Totally interact within the democratic course of. Their web site promotes The Energy of Democracy. They need college students to interact and take part however not the voters.
SCCOE will not be dwelling as much as the core rules of democracy to permit the voters to make use of their voice within the democratic course of. We've the proper to vote for a purpose. There's a monetary price, however it's the authorities’s duty to carry integrity into the election course of.
Cease the appointment course of and request an election to switch Trustee Rosemary Kamei.
Patricia Gardner
San Jose
With election over,
time to work collectively
I’m thrilled that the midterm election was neither a “pink wave” nor a “blue wave” – as in these situations, the newly elected or re-elected politicians and related get together leaders leap to “we've got a mandate” to control consequently. They oftentimes assume the identical with a two- or three-point win. And it’s full nonsense.
Elections are usually not mandates. Elections serve to remind us all that our nice republic has traditionally been and stays a politically divided nation – now greater than ever – exhibited via a course of we name democracy. An exquisite factor, certainly.
That mentioned, when time to control, the earlier we will sit down collectively, roll up our sleeves collectively, graciously talk and hear collectively whereas making fact-based selections collectively, the sooner we are going to, collectively, clear up at the moment’s most urgent points and mounting crises. Allow us to get to work, collectively.
William Baron
San Jose
Actual reform wanted
to weed out unhealthy cops
Re. “Two cops charged for leaving handcuffed girl inside police automobile on practice tracks earlier than locomotive crash,” Nov. 8:
Studying concerning the actions of Sgt. Pablo Vazquez and officer Jordan Steinke evoked a number of feelings in me; I felt enraged, saddened, however most of all exhausted from all of the information of incompetent cops failing to make the most of even a tinge of frequent sense.
The legal prices that they face are a small victory, overshadowed by a system that produces an uncomfortably massive variety of underqualified cops.
Think about a rustic wherein its residents really feel secure and might belief those that are supposed to serve and defend them. The US can transfer on this course via higher coaching, elevated responsibility surveillance, and restructuring a system that permits one too many “unhealthy apples” to put on a badge.
Randy Cruz
San Jose
Meta honcho bungles
with out main
Re. “Massive tech layoffs threaten economic system,” Web page A1, Nov. 10:
Meta’s mega misstep may have been prevented if Mark Zuckerberg had Tom Hanks on his govt board.
Within the film “Massive” Tom Hanks is a 10-year-old boy within the physique of a toy firm govt who says in a board assembly, “This toy is unnecessary, and no little one will purchase it.”
Zuckerberg may even have employed a courtroom jester who was the important thing advisor to kings and queens. A jester spoke the reality to energy and identified folly (in a humorous method) that nobody else dared say, then, they dwell to do it once more.
Leaders must continuously ask themselves, “How do I discover out what I don’t wish to hear? How do I do know when the recommendation from these round me is honest, or when it's simply flattery?”
I train management so executives like Zuckerberg don’t should be taught by trial and error.
Curtis Panasuk
Santa Cruz