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Larger PG&E charges
will lower donations
Re: “PG&E fee change is due to new legislation” (April 18).
That is the dumbest legislation ever.
As an individual who labored their butt off to dwell on this valley, I’ll most likely match within the highest class. My plan is to chop my substantial donations to some California charities. The web outcome can be zero.
A variety of my associates have advised me they may do the identical.
Robert Droege
San Jose
State’s ‘gravy practice’
retains homeless coming
Re: “Homelessness rise baffles lawmakers” (Web page B1, April 23).
The headline in Sunday’s Mercury Information, “Homelessness rise baffles lawmakers,” was shocking contemplating that the reply to the query is contained within the first sentence of the article: “The state has spent billions of {dollars} on homelessness in recent times.”
When the gravy practice is operating at full pace, passengers from close to and much will flock to the station. I can not bear in mind any time in previous historical past when legislators bent over backward to maintain individuals who won’t ever have the ability to afford residing right here from leaving for a greater life. Relatively than spend funds to assist individuals relocate to a state with a practical price of residing, California is spending billions of {dollars} to create backed and free housing together with a plethora of social providers for this inhabitants.
In the event you construct it, they may come; we shouldn’t be stunned to search out an inflow of homeless individuals using the gravy practice in California.
Kirch DeMartini
Saratoga
S.J. shouldn’t drag
toes on expertise
Re: “Robotic shuttles at S.J. airport?” (Web page A1, April 20).
Thanks for the good article. You want to googling PRT (private fast transit). It’s an idea that has been round in varied guises for 50 years.
Working in Morgantown, W. Va., an SFO-like system continues to be going very efficiently, and that’s with Nineteen Sixties tube pc expertise.
LHR airport in London has a extra fashionable system in use for over 5 years in addition to a number of different profitable purposes all over the world.
It’s not “pie within the sky fantasy” as some pursuits like to assert however a ripe and profitable expertise, and there’s no excuse for San Jose (or wherever) to have been dragging its toes for 23 years as talked about within the article.
One wonders why the capital of tech has not adopted this idea when different locations all over the world have.
Fred Geiger
Santa Cruz
Give the homeless
a good place to dwell
Re: “Housing the homeless isn’t any name for division” (Web page A6, April 20).
The homeless deserve a good place to dwell wherever it’s possible. A roof over their heads and no matter supportive providers are wanted needs to be supplied.
Though this will sound trivial, I’m wondering if a few of the objections to homeless housing in neighborhoods could possibly be because of the chilly, sterile eyesores which might be being constructed. Downtown Monterey has many new buildings designed within the mission fashion that improve the neighborhood and respect historical past. San Jose additionally has a beautiful historic previous. Hopefully, we gained’t get so techy that every one of our new buildings appear to be pc elements.
Diane McQuillen
San Jose
Precise science admits
vary of sexes
Re: “We will’t dodge science in feminine athletics” (Web page A6, April 26).
I’m certain that Laith Naaman meant effectively in his letter, however the entire “info” within the letter are mistaken. Right here is the true science.
1. Most individuals have solely two chromosomes, often XX or XY. However there are various different mixtures, together with XXY (Keinfelter’s syndrome), XYY and extra.
2. Chromosomes don’t decide intercourse. That is excessive school-level biology. It’s the 23 genes inside every chromosome that decide intercourse, hair and eye coloration, and so on. Particularly, the DAX1 and WNT4 genes within the X chromosome and the SRY gene within the Y chromosome decide intercourse.
3. Solely when all three of those genes are regular is XX feminine and XY male. If any or the entire three genes will not be regular, you may have all kinds of male-female mixtures. That is essential These are well-known pure phenomena in all animals and people. Nobody decides something.
Diane Gaskill
San Jose
Simple, however unlikely, repair
for Feinstein quandary
The perfect (and possibly unlikely) resolution to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s quandary about fulfilling his pledge to
