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Guadalupe River Park
an amazing thought forgotten
Fairly just a few years in the past I used to be delighted when town fathers determined to develop and enhance the Guadalupe River because it handed by the guts of town. My spouse and I have been desperate to stroll alongside the newly developed space and had a pleasing day doing so.
A number of days in the past we took the stroll once more. What a disappointment. As an alternative of discovering a well-maintained, clear space with lush new development and plentiful wildlife, we noticed a complete mess: weeds and trash in every single place, together with within the river itself. As an alternative of murals on the wall, there was graffiti and homeless folks and their messy encampments.
I sympathize with individuals who have been compelled from their houses by laborious instances. However after spending bundles of cash to beautify the world it seems that the mission has been completely deserted. Simply one other good thought that’s now ignored.
Gerald Caldwell
San Jose
Nothing flawed with photo voltaic
houses paying for grid
Marshal Merriam argues that owners with photo voltaic panels shouldn’t must pay for his or her grid companies, evaluating them to cellphone customers who surrender their landlines (“It’s the flawed time to punish photo voltaic customers,” Web page A6, Aug. 17). The deceptive comparability highlights a typical misperception about rooftop photo voltaic.
Only a few houses with photo voltaic installations are fully disconnected from the grid. Most depend on PG&E’s costly distribution community to safe a steady provide of electrical energy. Many individuals at the moment are producing their very own photo voltaic electrical energy and aren’t paying their fair proportion to assist preserve the grid, and they’re fairly totally different from cellphone customers who’ve given up their landlines. The present settlement with photo voltaic households is overly beneficiant and unsustainable, shifting an growing share of the grid upkeep burden to non-solar households.
My residence has photo voltaic panels, and I’m completely prepared to pay an acceptable fastened charge for my useful underground landline to PG&E’s grid.
Doug Peterson
San Jose
Implement single-issue
rule for poll measures
Proposition 26 versus Proposition 27 exhibits what’s flawed with the initiative course of, but in addition factors the way in which to a easy resolution.
A primary requirement of an initiative is that it should deal with just one subject, a requirement consistently ignored. Proposition 27 is an initiative to approve on-line gaming in order that it may be taxed with the cash to be earmarked to deal with homelessness. What when you’re in favor of on-line playing however against the homeless?
First, it’s a nasty thought to tie the state funds to single-issue poll measures. Second, it confuses the problem at hand. Proposition 27 proponents say Proposition 26 supplies nothing to assist the homeless. However that’s not the elemental query on the poll the voters are being requested to resolve.
The secretary of state ought to implement the one-issue rule so the voters can clearly specific their will on the essential query.
Dave Riggs
Aptos
Cheney’s stand exhibits
precept is paramount
Re. “Cheney concentrating on Trump killed reelection hopes,” Web page A6, Aug. 28:
Ernie Konnyu belittles Rep. Liz Cheney’s stand in opposition to former U.S. President Donald Trump, after he incited the Jan. 6, 2021, violent far-right rebellion in opposition to the U.S. Capitol. You ask why she would sacrifice her profession by making an attempt to carry Trump accountable for betraying his vow to guard the U.S. Structure.
Why? As a result of she selected ideas over social gathering, integrity over kowtowing to ‘King’ Trump. You act perplexed as a result of her braveness spotlights the cowardice fellow Republican lawmakers have displayed since Trump’s failed coup. That they had an opportunity to question Trump for a transparent crime in opposition to American democracy however fumbled the possibility to free their social gathering from his stranglehold.
Liz Cheney misplaced her congressional seat as a result of she refused to drink the Kool-Help that’s Trumpism. She’s going to certainly be remembered as a political hero. Mr. Konnyu, there are extra necessary issues than profitable.
Rita Girman
San Jose
Mounting proof means
Trump gained’t run once more
Donald Trump won’t be able to run for president ever once more.
The Jan. 6 committee and the Mueller report did a unprecedented job in revealing the reality about our former president’s efficiency. With all of the proof they offered, it’s past doubt that Trump dedicated a number of prison offenses.
