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Metropolis should end job
of restoring church
Re: “Historic San Jose church comes into view after eyesore tarp is eliminated” (Aug. 29).
Jim Salata has chutzpah, a much-needed high quality that’s not thick on the bottom in San Jose. Bored with ready for town to get the job finished, he put his crews to work eradicating the torn plastic sheets and scaffolding from the First Church of Christ, Scientist at 43 East St. James St.
In different phrases, he completed in half a day what town has been unable to do within the final 5 years.
Now town authorities must step up not by blowing smoke, however by working Z&L Properties out of city by no matter means needed and restoring the constructing to its former grandeur.
Thanks, Jim.
Judith Hurley
San Jose
Slayings remind to maintain
an eye fixed on each other
Re: “Relative is arrested in stabbing deaths” (Web page B1, Aug. 26).
I used to be shocked once I learn in regards to the current double slaying of a younger boy and his great-grandmother in San Jose.
I’ve learn many stories of murders, however they all the time felt like distant information headlines — statistics that mattered to another person. Studying this heartbreaking information so near residence, I spotted that the victims might have been anybody.
We will not depend on legislators to make knife or gun management insurance policies, however we will be careful for each other in our group, and that is extra urgent than ever earlier than.
Daniel Lin
Cupertino
Sweden units instance
for public providers
Re: “Stalled bridge toll hike signifies the general public’s discontent” (Web page A12, Aug. 27).
Whereas your editorial correctly rebuffed BART for looking for huge bridge toll hikes with none reform proposals, it doesn’t sufficiently tackle: (1) How BART can presumably proceed to justify its chronically humongous budgets on this new period of distant work and web buying; (2) whether or not BART will ever develop an efficient, economical plan for dealing with its quite a few violent/unruly passengers; (3) the BART unions’ appreciable affect over BART budgetary and administration choices; and (4) whether or not the Bay Space ought to now take into account adopting the just lately rising Swedish method to offering wanted public providers, particularly, by establishing a governmentally coordinated; partially publicly funded; privately operated system, using Uber, Lyft, taxis, bus firms, ferries, and so forth., whereas additionally offering low-income residents with fare subsidies.
As in Sweden, this promising method seeks to perform very important public coverage targets by way of the efficiencies, flexibilities and incentives of free-enterprise competitors.
John Haggerty
Santa Clara
Say no to newest
MTC tax proposal
Re: “Stalled bridge toll hike signifies the general public’s discontent” (Web page A12, Aug. 27).
I’m deeply disturbed that the Metropolitan Transportation Fee (MTC) is planning to push for a Bay Space-wide 2026 poll measure to lift the area’s gross sales tax one other half-cent to additional fund commuter rail, buses and ferries.
MTC is asking residents to fill out a survey that by no means asks if folks wish to pay extra taxes; as an alternative, the upper tax is a given, and it simply asks how folks wish to spend the cash. These fixed gross sales tax measures on each poll are fairly annoying.
Over the past a number of elections, voters in Santa Clara County have handed a number of tax and price will increase. All this nickel-and-diming hurts folks of modest means, who should pay the best share of their revenue in these regressive taxes. Every enhance by itself doesn’t quantity to a lot, however the cumulative impact is so as to add to the unaffordability of the area. Please vote no.
William Hough
Los Altos
Transgender group
are additionally God’s kids
Re: “Conservative teams pushing anti-trans payments” (Web page A1, Aug. 29).
A Bible verse says that God created mankind in his personal picture. About 73% of Republican and conservative activists strongly consider in God and are very non secular. Christianity occurs to be the main faith in America.
