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Hit A’s proprietor the place
it hurts: the pockets

Re: “A’s plan for stadium seems to be useless” (Web page A1, Might 13).

The front-page story on Saturday, “A’s plan for stadium seems to be useless” confirmed a photograph on Web page 6 of followers throwing rotten tomatoes at images of group proprietor John Fisher, group President Dave Kaval, and Main League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred.

I do sympathize with the followers and their anger and frustration. Nonetheless, throwing rotten tomatoes will roll off the backs of those males like water off a duck. In the event you actually need these males to understand how you’re feeling, hit them the place it hurts, their wallets. My husband prompt a boycott of all of the video games.

I do know this could be laborious for the followers, however you possibly can nonetheless present up within the parking heaps and have tailgate events; that’s half the enjoyable anyway. Simply don’t purchase the tickets.

Carol Pollard
San Jose

Including extra jobs
than houses a foul plan

Re: “Places of work, 850 houses might sprout close to San Jose BART cease, new plans present” (Might 12).

The headline for a Might 12 Mercury Information article trumpeted a challenge to construct 850 new houses in San Jose. Sounds good, however it isn’t.

This “housing” challenge can even embody 455,000 sq. toes of workplace house that can generate over 2,000 jobs. A challenge that provides extra jobs than homes solely makes the housing disaster worse. And few of the homes shall be reasonably priced for the individuals who most want housing. It’s all about offering housing to extremely paid workers to facilitate the enlargement of excessive tech.

The Mercury Information needs to be offering considerate evaluation of tasks like this slightly than parroting developer press releases.

Richard Leask
Palo Alto

State’s leaders ought to
plan for subsequent drought

Re: “Clear power will get increase from large snowpack” (Web page A1, Might 9).

Nice article by Paul Rogers on the Might 9 entrance web page.

However you notice that in earlier editions of The Mercury Information, the graphics present one other drought coming in 4 years. I hope somebody in cost will plan for that. And the graphic on the identical web page exhibits fascinating energy manufacturing. I hope that the swap to all-electric will have the ability to accommodate all the brand new EVs the governor expects together with the cancellation of fuel home equipment. Will the ability outages we presently have be eradicated?

I consider somebody’s considering is all mistaken on our insurance policies for conservation.

Joe Sindorf
San Jose

Assist maintain Amazon
accountable for plastics

Recycle, recycle, recycle. That’s what we’ve been informed to do, however plastic air pollution retains getting worse. Lower than 10% of what we intend to recycle really will get recycled. The remainder finally ends up incinerated, creating extra air air pollution, or in the environment. Microplastics are actually being present in our meals and in our bloodstream.

So what’s to be accomplished? We as individuals should come collectively and maintain accountable those that produce the plastic that we’ve to make use of. As a result of let’s be sincere, most of us wouldn’t select to make use of single-use plastic if we had the selection. It’s one thing out of our management in the mean time. However, we might be those to vary that. Amazon produced 600 million kilos of plastic waste in 2020. Be a part of me in attempting to carry them accountable.

Jeremy Martinez
San Jose

Cross payments to assist
foster youth transition

Within the final two months, two payments looking for to increase foster care advantages previous the age of 21 have been referred to the suspense file the place they may die with no vote.

SB 9 launched by state Sen. Dave Cortese and AB 525 launched by Assemblymember Phil Ting may assist youth within the foster care system keep away from going into homelessness by growing age limits to receiving advantages and growing the quantity of monetary help supplied to stay independently.

With the rising price of residing within the Bay Space, the help that the state supplies to a few of our most weak youth shouldn’t be sufficient for them to stay and thrive. Lots of the youth exiting foster care shouldn’t have household to assist assist their transition to maturity. Whereas offering these advantages may very well be pricey, it is going to be extra pricey to attempt to home unhoused youth later down the highway.

Jacqueline Ramos
San Jose

Weak youth
want extra assets

I wish to categorical concern relating to the continued improve of commercially sexually exploited youngsters and the dearth of providers for them.