Stebbins is the rightchoice for judgeship
Santa Clara County voters have the uncommon alternative to fill a vacant seat on the Superior Courtroom and Johnene Linda Stebbins is the extremely certified, skilled candidate to fill this seat.
Johnene is the one candidate endorsed by Decide Vincent Chiarello to exchange him for Superior Courtroom decide .
As a Santa Clara County deputy district legal professional for 26 years, Johnene prosecuted a variety of legal, client safety and environmental instances, and taught legislation to organizations and teams within the authorized neighborhood. She is a girls’s rights advocate who engages with the neighborhood on each skilled and private ranges.
Johnene Stebbins is the proper alternative for Superior Courtroom decide.
Rebecca ElliotSan Jose
Vote sure for rentcontrol with Prop. 33
California is lengthy overdue for complete hire management. Your paper’s opposition to hire management is solely advocating for insurance policies that take from the poor and provides to the wealthy.
The hire management exemptions on new development have allowed builders to tear down rent-controlled residences, construct new residences with no hire management and displace current residents.
The exemption on single-family properties has helped gas an investor monopolization of house possession.
California’s excessive rents aren’t resulting from a scarcity of housing. They’re resulting from company greed. Lots of people have been pushed into homelessness by rents which have doubled and tripled in simply a few years. The identical builders we’re instructed received’t construct until we give them each conceivable concession aren’t going to provide anybody affordability out of the goodness of their hearts.
Vote sure for individuals and no for company greed. Sure on 33.
Steve Van De PitteSan Jose
Prop. 5 will returnpower to communities
As reasonably priced housing leaders in Santa Clara County and past, we’re conscious about California’s huge housing scarcity. Too many low- and middle-income neighbors battle to afford, discover and hold a roof over their heads.
Proposition 5 offers a vital resolution by returning the facility to native communities, permitting us to create extra reasonably priced housing and guaranteeing that our public infrastructure retains up with progress.
Proposition 5 isn’t just about constructing reasonably priced housing; it additionally helps important public infrastructure, reminiscent of transportation, parks and faculties, that make neighborhoods thrive. Housing doesn’t exist in isolation. Protected, livable communities require funding in infrastructure that connects individuals to jobs, schooling and companies.
Let’s seize this chance to vary the way forward for our communities. We urge you to vote sure on Proposition 5 this November to create a stronger, extra equitable California.
Regina Celestin Williamsand Noni RamosSan Jose
Synthetic turf is wrongchoice for atmosphere
Re: “Sides lining up to protect their turf” (Web page A1, Oct. 15).
The Oct. 15 article on synthetic turf overlooks important issues. Whereas the Artificial Turf Council, a “nonprofit that advocates for the turf industry,” claims artificial fields save water, they usually require hundreds of gallons to chill down — an effort that lasts solely 20 minutes.
Addressing discipline shortages, the article fails to say that synthetic turf fields turn out to be dangerously scorching. With temperatures reaching 50-70 levels hotter than pure grass, excessive warmth poses severe dangers to athletes. Growing stories from throughout the nation spotlight athletes affected by warmth exhaustion, and even demise, on these fields.
As well as, synthetic turf is tough to eliminate, exhausting to recycle, and sits in landfills for a whole bunch of years. Sustainable options, like enhancing pure grass fields, must be prioritized for our well being and the atmosphere.
Cheryl WeidenLos Altos
A vote for Trumpis a vote for Musk
We see the as soon as mighty Intel faltering, having misplaced its former mojo. It has gotten so unhealthy that discuss abounds of its susceptibility to takeover efforts by numerous rivals.
Equally, Donald Trump has turn out to be confused, weak and sunk to dancing to golden oldies.
The hazard is that he too, being weak, is topic to takeover by a stronger entity. At this time that entity is Elon Musk. He has donated tens of thousands and thousands to the Trump marketing campaign and can have a robust hand over Trump and thus, over our nation’s assets (monetary and navy) if Trump is elected.
If you wish to hand the automobile keys to a pushed, narcissistic billionaire then a vote for Trump can be a vote for President Musk. Would you like that?
Ed TaubMountain View
Affirmation separatesDemocrats, Republicans
I discover a putting and essential distinction between the Republicans and Democrats.
The Republicans are all about punishment, of people and teams; the Democrats are about working collectively to search out options to essential issues.
Punishment vs. affirmation is a telling distinction in mindset.
Don BarnbyMenlo Park
