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S.J. leaders should
give attention to the fundamentals
Sufficient with the headline-grabbing antics. I’m weary of regularly studying about councilmembers chasing shiny objects.
How about specializing in the fundamentals for the nice of all residents? For starters, emergency preparedness — our group is ill-prepared for the “large one,” or climate disasters. Unlawful dumping is uncontrolled. Extra bushes ought to be planted. Have been earlier proposals adopted up on? Public security numbers should develop. Streets ought to be cleaned completely and often. Animal care and companies want consideration. Parks want ongoing upkeep.
Fundamentals aren’t “attractive,” and I doubt that specializing in bringing them to fruition would garner front-page information. However that’s what our electeds are imagined to be doing … specializing in the working of the town, proper?
Thank heaven for Mayor Matt Mahan, who understands the significance of specializing in the fundamentals. All San Jose Metropolis Councilmembers must get behind him for the nice of the entire group.
Tina Morrill
San Jose
Planet wants new
financial mannequin
Re: “Golden State’s glow is fading” (Web page A1, July 26).
How about publishing an article on the professionals of a shrinking inhabitants, and the cons of the concept that infinite development is the one path to a wholesome economic system?
It’s a well-established indisputable fact that we’re quickly sucking the life out of our “spaceship Earth” by increasingly more densely packing our species into each nook and cranny of the planet. Authorities, enterprise and the media have us all bought on the mannequin of development because the financial end-all and be-all.
“Finish-all” is, sadly, in all probability correct. We want a brand new mannequin.
Paul Cole
Palo Alto
The place is ‘Residents’
Treatment’ for builders?
The California State Legislature has crafted a “Builder’s Treatment” for builders in search of to maximise income with megacomplexes and high-density housing initiatives squeezed into our suburban neighborhoods.
However it’s native management that made our suburbs a haven of protected, tranquil neighborhoodsand good faculties to lift our households and to get pleasure from quiet contentment in retirement.
Santa Monica, the place an ungainly builder’s treatment lately examined these waters, successfully dissuaded the developer, leading to a settlement that either side can stay with, and saving the neighborhood that was in danger.
Now Menlo Park, with a inhabitants one-third the scale of Santa Monica, faces irreparable injury from a builder’s treatment proposed 27-story megacomplex — taller than the Statue of Liberty. And that’s considered one of three related abominations that may tower over this city of principally one- and two-story buildings.
What we’d like shouldn’t be carte blanche for grasping builders, however a “Residents’ Treatment.”
Cherie Zaslawsky
Menlo Park
Outcomes, not intentions,
justify state insurance policies
Re: “Democrats maintain repeating the identical errors” (Web page A6, July 18).
It might not resonate with different members of the occasion, however state Sen. Steven Glazer, D-Orinda, has stumble on an important facet of how and why we spend the federal government’s cash.
He factors out that this 12 months’s state funds is “dedicating spending to getting homeless individuals off the road, supporting faculties, retaining public transit afloat and treating psychological sickness.” He doesn’t dispute the need to take action, however he additionally states that “now we have spent billions of {dollars} on the identical issues — with little or no to point out for it.” For him “good intentions” should not sufficient — there should be an accompanying aspect of accountability.
I applaud this sentiment. The Legislature should settle for the accountability of not solely enhancing the lives of individuals, nevertheless it should additionally be sure that the processes they’re funding are producing the outcomes they’re designed to deal with.
Manny Morales
San Jose
Medicare enlargement
isn’t hurting psychological well being
Re: “Medicaid enlargement hurts psychological well being of the needy” (Web page A7, July 26).
It’s arduous to think about a extra twisted response to the shortage of psychological well being companies for low-income individuals than saying that the enlargement of Medicaid (Medi-Cal in California) is accountable. Moderately it’s the poor reimbursement of Medicaid suppliers, the privatization of public insurance coverage and the commodification of well being care which are accountable
