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Increased PG&E charges
will minimize donations
Re: “PG&E fee change is due to new regulation” (April 18).
That is the dumbest regulation ever.
As an individual who labored their butt off to stay on this valley, I'll in all probability match within the highest class. My plan is to chop my substantial donations to some California charities. The online end result shall be zero.
A lot of my mates have informed me they are going to do the identical.
Robert Droege
San Jose
State’s ‘gravy practice’
retains homeless coming
Re: “Homelessness rise baffles lawmakers” (Web page B1, April 23).
The headline in Sunday’s Mercury Information, “Homelessness rise baffles lawmakers,” was shocking contemplating that the reply to the query is contained within the first sentence of the article: “The state has spent billions of dollars on homelessness in recent times.”
When the gravy practice is operating at full velocity, passengers from close to and much will flock to the station. I can't keep in mind any time in previous historical past when legislators bent over backward to maintain individuals who won't ever have the ability to afford residing right here from leaving for a greater life. Quite than spend funds to assist folks relocate to a state with a practical price of residing, California is spending billions of dollars to create sponsored and free housing together with a plethora of social companies for this inhabitants.
Should you construct it, they are going to come; we shouldn't be shocked to seek out an inflow of homeless folks using the gravy practice in California.
Kirch DeMartini
Saratoga
S.J. shouldn’t drag
toes on know-how
Re: “Robotic shuttles at S.J. airport?” (Web page A1, April 20).
Thanks for the nice article. You prefer to googling PRT (private speedy transit). It’s an idea that has been round in varied guises for 50 years.
Working in Morgantown, W. Va., an SFO-like system remains to be going very efficiently, and that’s with Sixties tube pc know-how.
LHR airport in London has a extra trendy system in use for over 5 years in addition to a number of different profitable functions world wide.
It’s not “pie within the sky fantasy” as some pursuits like to assert however a ripe and profitable know-how, and there's no excuse for San Jose (or wherever) to have been dragging its toes for 23 years as talked about within the article.
One wonders why the capital of tech has not adopted this idea when different locations world wide have.
Fred Geiger
Santa Cruz
Give the homeless
a good place to stay
Re: “Housing the homeless is not any name for division” (Web page A6, April 20).
The homeless deserve a good place to stay wherever it's possible. A roof over their heads and no matter supportive companies are wanted ought to be offered.
Though this will sound trivial, I'm wondering if a number of the objections to homeless housing in neighborhoods may very well be as a result of chilly, sterile eyesores which are being constructed. Downtown Monterey has many new buildings designed within the mission model that improve the neighborhood and respect historical past. San Jose additionally has a beautiful historic previous. Hopefully, we received’t get so techy that each one of our new buildings appear like pc elements.
Diane McQuillen
San Jose
Precise science admits
vary of sexes
Re: “We will’t dodge science in feminine athletics” (Web page A6, April 26).
I'm certain that Laith Naaman meant nicely in his letter, however all the “info” within the letter are mistaken. Right here is the true science.
1. Most individuals have solely two chromosomes, often XX or XY. However there are numerous different combos, together with XXY (Keinfelter’s syndrome), XYY and extra.
2. Chromosomes don't decide intercourse. That is excessive school-level biology. It's the 23 genes inside every chromosome that decide intercourse, hair and eye colour, and so on. Particularly, the DAX1 and WNT4 genes within the X chromosome and the SRY gene within the Y chromosome decide intercourse.
3. Solely when all three of those genes are regular is XX feminine and XY male. If any or all the three genes aren't regular, you'll be able to have all kinds of male-female combos. That is vital These are well-known pure phenomena in all animals and people. Nobody decides something.
Diane Gaskill
San Jose
Simple, however unlikely, repair
for Feinstein quandary
The best (and possibly unlikely) resolution to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s quandary about fulfilling his pledge to nominate a Black lady to the Senate ought to Sen. Dianne Feinstein resign, a pledge made earlier than he knew a Black lady could be operating for the seat towards two different revered Democrats, is as follows:
Newsom appoints Barbara Lee after she pledges to retire after her first full time period, at which level she shall be in her 80s. Reps. Katie Porter and Adam Schiff know there shall be a seat to compete for no later than six years from now, and within the meantime, they return to the Home, and California advantages from the continued management of all three.
Todd Gutmann
Sunnyvale