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Metropolis ought to ship
because of Salata
Re: “Officers eye tremendous for tarp elimination” (Web page A1, Sept. 19).
For years, town of San Jose sat on its palms. For years, the property proprietor ignored its duties. And what did Jim Salata do?
Eradicated potential sources of catastrophic fireplace, eliminated particles and dry vegetation, secured home windows to guard the integrity of a historic asset, repaired parts of the broken roof, and pulled out a years-old, ragged tarp topping off an eyesore.
Nice him? Metropolis employees and Councilmember Omar Torres needs to be sending Jim Salata thanks notes.
Leslie Kelsay
Santa Clara
Tech giants lionized
as inventors forgotten
Re: “Remembering Silicon Valley tech large John Warnock” (Web page A6, Sept. 22).
Tom McEnery’s eulogy for John Warnock hits all the best chords, however it does omit one essential element.
Warnock and Chuck Geschke had the perception and connections to commercialize the invention of one in all their colleagues. John Gaffney was among the many main architects of Postscript, the web page description language that shaped the muse of Adobe’s improvements.
Warnock himself eulogized John Gaffney at his early, premature memorial, recognizing his contribution to the success of Adobe. Company founders might justifiably obtain the accolades for creating groundbreaking corporations, however in lots of instances, the work of the inventors goes unrecognized.
Campbell Scott
Los Gatos
Small tax hikes add
as much as actual cash
Re: “Small tax hike might pay for SJ contract” (Web page A6, Sept. 22).
There’s no such factor as a small tax hike. That’s like saying a tsunami is simply drops of water.
After we moved to San Jose in 1966, the state gross sales tax was about 3%. In the present day it’s bumping up in opposition to 9.5%. It didn’t get there in a single day. It was offered to the individuals by way of small 1/8% and 1/4% raises in phrases much like Brian McCormick’s moderately informal “most taxpayers can afford it.”
The truth is, we will’t all the time have every thing we would like as a result of we merely can’t afford it.
George Kreider
San Jose
Benefit scholar hopefuls
are wanted excellent news
Thanks for publishing the 2023 listing of Nationwide Benefit Scholarship college students contending for scholarships.
I do know that it takes up a whole lot of print area to publish 1,140 names, however it should make them and their mother and father proud to see them honored on this means.
It’s gratifying to see such excellent news.
Joanne Kobori
San Jose
Payments could be
important turf battle instruments
Re: “Turf wars: NFL gamers and homeowners are at odds over changing synthetic surfaces with grass” (Sept. 4).
Why is synthetic turf — whose existence is only a phony imitation of one thing the world has deemed essential to its environmental well-being for hundreds of years — so extremely regarded by way of options to recent grass?
Even only one search on the web proves it’s incapable of supplying customers with the identical advantages actual grass provides. Extra importantly, even the gamers who use the fields agree on recent grass’s superiority by way of each security and advantages.
Assist take away synthetic turf by emailing Gov. Gavin Newsom to ask him to move payments SB 676 — which might reinstate cities’ energy to ban the set up of synthetic turf — and AB 1423 — which might ban the set up of all turf containing PFAS — to make our cities and colleges safer and extra sustainable.
Nicole Lee
Saratoga
Partisanship has
poisoned U.S. politics
Re: “Poll for each challenge could be unworkable” (Web page A8, Aug. 6).
Dan Pitt’s clarification of consultant authorities is idealistic. We vote for politicians, hoping that they’ll serve us and symbolize the general public curiosity. As an alternative, they serve themselves and symbolize the pursuits of their main marketing campaign contributors. This is the reason Republicans help oil drilling and the gun foyer.
It’s additionally why in California we get housing legal guidelines that profit builders, and the actual property foyer that closely funds members of the state Legislature and the governor’s campaigns.
When politicians run for reelection, most voters don’t hassle to guage a candidate’s efficiency or their voting report. They vote primarily based on partisanship and title recognition. Most incumbents are termed out of workplace moderately than voted out. Nobody is extra responsible of sloganeering and false propaganda in laws than the California Legislature.
Marketing campaign financing has hijacked democracy and excessive partisanship of the voters on this nation has nearly eradicated all accountability for politicians.
Steve Van De Pitte
San Jose
