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Bend has mishandled
enhance in site visitors
Re: “To see the way forward for California, look to Oregon” (Web page A13, Sept. 10).
Earlier than packing their baggage to maneuver to Bend, Ore., Californians must know that Joe Mathews informed us solely half the story.
In the midst of making a twice-yearly auto journey to my place in Jap Washington over the previous 40 years, I’ve seen how Bend has failed miserably in addressing the rise in site visitors. A beltway designed to get rid of site visitors on Freeway 97 by way of downtown is clogged with site visitors throughout commute hours as a result of it was constructed with stoplights at cross streets. The part of 97 between Bend and Redmond is a harmful four-lane freeway with no middle median, which is jammed with heavy site visitors many of the day.
It’s nice that Bend has constructed a wonderful new highschool. Nevertheless, if I had been betting on a habitable future, I’d place my cash on Mathew’s hometown of South Pasadena.
Stan Bogosian
Saratoga
Faith is private,
not public coverage
Re: “Bible, and Christians, acknowledge two genders” (Web page A6, Sept. 6).
Why is it that individuals who name themselves Christian suppose they’ve the solutions to every thing? And why do they focus a lot on intercourse? What they need to reside by with their Bible is their enterprise, however one other particular person’s gender (and the flexibility to vary that) will not be.
If these folks would spend extra time on bringing about world peace, serving to enhance the local weather, controlling crime and rendering help to these in want, the world could be a significantly better place. And they need to maintain their spiritual beliefs to themselves the place they belong.
Katie Dent
Sunnyvale
Hormones, not DNA,
affect gender
Re: “Bible, and Christians, acknowledge two genders” (Web page A6, Sept. 6).
Thomas Watson puzzles about gender identification: “Who will get to make up all these new guidelines? Does DNA not imply something anymore?”
Scientific data retains rising and growing our understanding of our our bodies. Do a Google search on “prenatal endocrine influences on sexual orientation” and you can find a whole bunch of peer-reviewed scientific journal articles supporting the fetal hormonal idea of sexuality and gender identification — the hormonal “flooding” that happens within the first trimester of being pregnant.
It’s not the DNA — it’s the hormones.
Invoice Charleston
Campbell
Native legislators ought to
oppose EATS act
The Ending Agricultural Commerce Suppression Act (EATS) was launched in Congress in June. EATS is a direct response to California’s Proposition 12, which bans merciless manufacturing unit farming practices, together with cage confinement of egg-laying chickens and mom pigs. The EATS Act would repeal state and native legal guidelines that defend livestock, farmworkers, shoppers and the surroundings.
Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley says “California’s Proposition 12 goes to harm the economic system of Iowa, which is primary in pork manufacturing. As a result of we farm in another way than the eggheads of California suppose we should run our animal agriculture, we will’t promote our product there.”
Sen. Grassley and others don’t need California to inform them how you can farm. Let’s not allow them to inform us what to eat or how you can deal with our livestock.
Contact Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Alex Padilla Urge them to ensure the EATS Act will not be included within the 2023 Farm Invoice.
Judith Hurley
San Jose
Article distracts from
deeper points with China
Re: “Developer allegedly proposes China as companion in constructing large $2.8B dam” (Web page A1, Aug. 26)
Shocked and happy to see some protection of one thing having a hyperlink to worldwide relations below the rubric of the oddball proposal for a farcical Chinese language-funded dam challenge for Santa Clara Valley Water District that may by no means occur given the present state of U.S.-China relations.
Alas, as an skilled on the Belt and Highway Initiative (BRI), I remorse to spotlight that the commentary on the BRI within the piece is hyperbolic, inaccurate and selectively biased. There are a variety of issues with the BRI in addition to China in infrastructure, however the superficial remedy of those themes within the article distracts from the important thing difficulty of how the SCVWD challenge (no matter its deserves) can be funded in addition to bigger problems with the supposed financial and political advantages and dangers of getting international entities (pleasant or not) concerned in California infrastructure as funders, buyers and contractors.
Jean-Marc Blanchard
Los Gatos
