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Cupertino management
has hobbled town
When will the Cupertino Metropolis Council approve a proposal for improvement at Vallco? The group has waited six years for the Metropolis Council to approve one thing. The developer has made a number of proposals that each one fail.
In November two new Metropolis Council members might be chosen by the voters. Darcy Paul might be gone in 2023. Hopefully, Cupertino residents acknowledge that “Higher Cupertino” has been a failure, particularly relating to Vallco. The misplaced income to town and faculties runs into thousands and thousands of {dollars}.
Over the past 4 years when Darcy Paul has been mayor, six metropolis managers have come and gone. The administration construction on the Metropolis Council appears to be inflicting loads of issues.
Jon Ramos
San Jose
Prop. 28 would profit
faculties and college students
It’s staggering that the Editorial Board would opine on Proposition 28 (“Don’t lock in additional California college spending,” Web page A6, Aug. 12) with out talking with anybody concerned with the initiative – lecturers, college households, entrepreneurs, artists and group leaders. If that they had, they might have gotten their info straight.
“Center of the pack” is a meaningless comparability when the group contains the likes of Arkansas and Mississippi, which wrestle to supply even the fundamentals at school lecture rooms.
In 2019-20, per pupil funding in Los Angeles was about $17,000 versus $30,000 for New York Metropolis. Barely 1 in 5 public faculties in California supply full-time artwork or music applications whereas nearly 4 in 5 do in New York as a result of they’ve satisfactory funds to take action.
Prop. 28 will create a brighter future for public college youngsters in California and ensure the workforce in media, expertise and leisure higher displays the range in our faculties.
Austin Beutner
Los Angeles
Inhabitants a drag
on Lake Mead
The letter that Paula Danz submitted on Aug. 9 (“Work practically carried out on local weather, spending invoice,” Web page A6) and the column by Leonard Pitts Jr. on July 31 (“The growing theme for 2022 is it’s the 12 months [bleep] acquired actual for us,” Web page A13) solely inform a part of the story.
Lake Mead definitely is loads decrease than the Sixties, and I agree this 20-year mega-drought is generally accountable. Nevertheless, Lake Mead provides water to a few states: Arizona, Nevada and California. Within the Sixties the inhabitants of those three states was a mixed 18 million. Right now it’s greater than 49 million. Add to that farmers want extra acreage to feed the increasing inhabitants.
As we proceed approving extra jobs and industrial improvement, we’ll by no means remedy our water woes and housing scarcity. It’s a vicious and dropping cycle.
Sure, Lake Mead will not be as good because it was within the Sixties, nevertheless, Mom Nature will not be the one offender.
Joseph Gemignani
San Jose
Letter mischaracterizes
Trump’s Jan. 6 speech
Ronna Devincenzi’s Aug 7, 2022, Letter “Media ignores coronary heart of Trump’s Jan. 6 speech” (Web page A6) illustrates how Trumpers present Donald Trump deniability for his insurrectionist actions.
Trump’s Jan. 6 speech contained practically 11,000 phrases; Devincenzi targeted solely on these 22 phrases: “I do know that everybody right here will quickly be marching over to the Capitol constructing to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.” Devincenzi ignores the 8,549 phrases that adopted the place Trump tells Mike Pence to carry out an unconstitutional act to overturn the vote of the Electoral School. Did these hundreds of Trumpers act “peacefully and patriotically”? No. They attacked police injuring 114, inflicting the deaths of 4, and raised a scaffold on the Capitol steps chanting, “Grasp Mike Pence.”
The place was Trump? Watching TV for 187 minutes whereas a mob of insurrectionists was making an attempt to overthrow the federal government. Trump did nothing to cease the revolt.
Thomas Roza
Campbell
GOP possession
can’t be exorcised
Recently, the GOP vaguely jogged my memory of one thing however what? Then after the Mar-a-Lago search, it hit me. Demonic possession motion pictures.
The GOP wants an exorcism. Couldn’t be clearer after its response to the Mar-a-Lago search. Identical to when the possessed is sprinkled with holy water within the motion pictures, being introduced with the reality resulted within the GOP’s vehement outbursts of denial, threats and hatred.
