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Penalties on uncared for
buildings ought to rise
Re: “Officers take into account elevating penalties” (Web page A1, Aug. 25).
Mayor Mahan, Vice Mayor Kamei and Metropolis Council members Torres and Foley have proposed that San Jose improve the charges on negligent property homeowners. The First Church of Christ, Scientist at St. James Park is considered one of these properties. By growing the charges considerably and growing the vigilance by code enforcement, we are able to save landmarks that add magnificence, and historic and cultural worth to our metropolis.
Historic buildings give us a way of the previous, our heritage, and enrich our lives with their magnificence and tales of earlier generations. We should shield these treasures, and this proposal would assist to try this.
Paul Boehm
San Jose
Guardrails in place
for sentencing reform
Re: “Proposed invoice raises nervousness, issues” (Web page A1, Aug. 30).
Relating to the issues about SB 94, the invoice follows a transparent 3-step technique of rigorous analysis: judicial discretion, Board of Pardons Hearings and the governor’s evaluation. Public security officers and victims shall be consulted at each step of the best way.
Terry McCaffrey
Amnesty Worldwide
Palo Alto
Headline misleads
by blaming president
Re: “Clear water safety weakened by Biden” (Web page A4, Aug. 30).
I don’t know when you or the Related Press compose the headlines of your articles, however whoever it’s must do significantly better.
Should you simply learn the headline, “Clear water safety weakened by Biden,” you’ll suppose that President Joe Biden himself, or maybe EPA Administrator Michael Regan, had the direct duty for weakening clear water rules. However studying the article clarifies that it was the Supreme Courtroom who truly made this occur. “Administrator Michael Regan stated that the company had no various after the Courtroom sharply restricted the federal authorities’s energy to manage wetlands. … Justices boosted property rights over issues about clear water in a Might ruling in favor of an Idaho couple who sought to construct a home close to a lake.”
So, who actually weakened these clear water protections? Please keep away from deceptive and misguided headlines.
Dick Howard
San Jose
Column ought to level
finger at Trump
Re: “Pullout from Afghanistan may value Biden reelection” (Web page A7, Aug. 30).
Marc Thiessen’s column is an ideal instance of why you must be skeptical of extremely partisan columnists.
Studying Thiessen’s column, one would by no means know that it was truly Donald Trump who first negotiated the Afghanistan withdrawal in February 2020. Not solely that, Trump initially needed to finish the withdrawal by election day. Thiessen additionally failed to say that Biden had inherited a declining Western drive in Afghanistan that will have been exhausting to reverse.
Whereas I personally agree with Thiessen that the Afghanistan withdrawal was a mistake, the error was negotiated and set in movement by Donald Trump, not President Biden.
Loren Spiekerman
Foster Metropolis
Congress ought to act
to maintain youngsters protected on-line
We’ve learn too many heartbreaking tales about households who’ve misplaced kids due to the risks of social media: relentless cyberbullying resulting in suicide, harmful “TikTok challenges” inflicting deadly accidents, movies selling consuming problems amongst younger ladies, publicity to grownup predators.
We are able to now not stand by silently as extra youngsters get damage. It’s time to face collectively — and to demand that our leaders in Washington and state capitals throughout the nation do one thing about it. Congress ought to begin by passing the Children On-line Security Act, which has large, bipartisan help.
Our children are continually inundated with dangerous content material. The act would offer instruments and safeguards to guard in opposition to harmful content material pushed on-line, and maintain social media firms accountable for repeatedly failing to take away it.
Lawmakers have an obligation to guard our children from Huge Tech’s blatant abuses. It’s time to carry this necessary laws to a vote.
Kanika Kansara
San Jose
Planet’s actual drawback
is overpopulation
Re: “Right here is the true drawback with all-electric automobiles” (Web page A6, Aug. 29).
Mr. Crisps’ opinion piece concerning electrical vehicles was attention-grabbing. And his concluding remarks about local weather chaos being “very more likely to proceed until we modify the best way we stay, which suggests fewer vehicles, smaller houses, much less air journey, much less purple meat, much less consolation and comfort” is what we’re continually advised.
