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We should always present
common dental care

Re: “San Jose pop-up presents free dental care to a whole bunch at conference heart clinic” (Web page B11, Might 21).

All of us owe gratitude to the various dentists, dental assistants and group members who donated their time and experience to offer free dental look after 1,500 sufferers at this weekend’s free clinic sponsored by the Santa Clara County Dental Basis.

Poor dental well being is expensive. It’s tied to coronary heart illness and dementia. It’s painful. Youngsters whose enamel damage can’t focus at school. Lacking enamel result in malnutrition. They’re ugly and infrequently price individuals employment alternatives.

It does us no good for any of us to be unhealthy. It’s expensive and it undermines our nationwide safety and our financial system.

So this celebratory article begs the query: How is it attainable that in one of many wealthiest nations on the earth we don’t present individuals with common, ample and reasonably priced dental well being care?

Judith Hurley
San Jose

Laws defend
us from greed, scofflaws

Re: “Room fee was $249, however advert didn’t point out $90 in charges. Laws goals to cease that” (Web page A1, Might 22).

SB 478 which forces resorts and alike to reveal hidden charges, as reported by The Mercury Information, is a reminder of why we have now laws.

Whereas many assume we over-regulate or are part of the good deep-state conspiracy, they’re there to guard the general public. Many of those legal guidelines come about as a response to abuse. Many complain that is authorities overreach, nevertheless it usually comes due to greed, scofflaws and the shortcoming of companies to self-regulate. On account of laws, our lives turn into extra advanced, however we’re safer for it.

I cannot condemn our protections however reward them. At their finest, they save lives.

Raymond Grzan
Morgan Hill

Florida reveals that
historical past can repeat

Re: “Civil rights teams warn vacationers about Florida in wake of ‘overtly hostile’ legal guidelines” (Web page A3, Might 22).

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his ilk are going after training. From e-book banning, to “Don’t say homosexual,” to rejecting AP African American research programs to banning faculties from having packages on range, equality and demanding race idea, and inclusion, even going as far as limiting race-based conversations in faculties and companies and thus getting ready college students/residents for unthinking obedience to authority and ignorance. There isn’t any worth placed on creativeness, curiosity, originality, creativity and, particularly, important thought.

This technique was utilized within the early Thirties to put in fascism in Germany. Every new authorities narrowed constitutional ensures and dominated extra by decree. Different acquainted methods included: deepening the cut up within the employees/residents, nationalism, racism, mobilization via enragement and concern, and destruction of the unions and newspapers. Many have been satisfied that so long as the democratic state existed, fascists couldn’t seize energy.

The teachings of historical past should not be ignored.

Karen Mandel
San Jose

‘Mallard Fillmore’ little
greater than name-calling

Bruce Tinsley (writer of “Mallard Fillmore”) does a strip implying the Bidens are a part of some “venal, corrupt crime household” and The Mercury Information thinks that’s fantastic to print. (Web page B9, Might 22)

That is the type of gutter-level character assassination the right-wing makes a speciality of. No proof of something. Simply the identical Trump-style name-calling that we’ve been listening to for years. If anyone has one thing factual to place on the market, then let’s hear it. Let’s see the laptop computer we’ve been listening to about for 3+ years.

I’m grateful for the nice man I helped elect. I’m disgusted with the redneck crap Tinsley places on the market day by day. And I’m disenchanted with The Mercury Information for publishing it.

Steve Ortiz
Redwood Metropolis.

Let’s not deal with battle
as a pure state

Re: “Russia: Wagner non-public military seizes Bakhmut” (Web page A4, Might 21).