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Exempt advisory boards
from the Brown Act
Re: “Conferences should stay open to public viewing” (Web page A6, July 11).
Whereas I agree with the editorial on July 11 that “conferences should stay open to public viewing,” advisory boards want an exemption from the Brown Act.
Advisory boards permit the general public to speak the problems and successes of packages to legislators. Videoconferencing permits the general public simpler entry to precise their opinions. With out an exemption to the Brown Act, we lose the views of the people who can’t simply journey, our disabled.
Let’s make certain all the public can take part in advising our legislators.
Mathew Lubinsky
Cupertino
Many selections already
made for all of us
Re: “Addicts should settle for some duty” (Web page A6, July 19).
Life is a matter of non-public duty and that features habit says John Worthing in a letter.
Sure, I’d agree to some extent. However we don’t make a lot of our selections, the essential ones akin to the place and after we are born, who our dad and mom are or the place, our genes, our intercourse, our brothers and sisters if we have now them, the neighborhood, the political and social local weather, colleges, conflict and even a pandemic. By the point you’ve gotten the selection many have already been made and your path drawn.
Many who make it simply nice don’t see it that approach. They view it by way of their very own experiences, which is narrower than the habit needle. The issue is that they’ll by no means perceive the circumstances till they’ve lived them.
So don’t trouble telling me that substance abuse is a cover-up. That comes from an unwillingness to know, clearly a alternative John Worthing made.
Raymond Grzan
Morgan Hill
Adjustments in our each day
lives can impression local weather
The local weather disaster is a fossil-fuel disaster; even oil man and President George W. Bush stated that 20 years in the past. We are inclined to overlook that in our each day lives, burning an excessive amount of of it and loading our ambiance with extra CO2 and methane.
So if we wish to lower the incidences of forests burning, cities flooding and excessive climate occasions like hurricanes, tornadoes and extreme rainfall, consider these issues if you attain to your automotive keys or your air conditioner. Are you about to activate an inside combustion engine? Is your home powered by electrical energy coming from a fossil-fuel-burning energy plant? We’re all on this collectively.
Steve Eittreim
Palo Alto
DeSantis assault on
training hurts freedom
When the self-anointed guru-Gov. Ron DeSantis tells you what can and can’t be taught about African American historical past I see the beginnings of an erosion of our basic rights.
