Reservoir venture east ofS.J. wants transparency
This summer time, Del Puerto Water District despatched out a survey of potential Del Puerto Canyon Highway realignments, to exchange a number of miles of current roadway that may be destroyed for an agribusiness reservoir, to residents of Del Puerto Canyon and the gated Diablo Grande group. Freeway 130/Del Puerto Canyon Highway connects San Jose with Patterson and Modesto, however they didn’t invite residents of these communities to take part.
Water district managers then met with Stanislaus County Public Works relating to “Option 9.” This follows Del Puerto Water District’s sample of being much less clear with sure stakeholders, as they had been sluggish to ship out invitations for public feedback in Spanish once they publicly launched Del Puerto Reservoir, regardless of the adjoining metropolis of Patterson being majority Hispanic and talking a house language apart from English.
Working-class residents of close by cities ought to have possibilities for enter.
Christopher QuockSan Francisco
Founders regulatedguns in modification
Re: “Framers’ meaning clear in Second Amendment” (Web page A6, Sept. 18).
Whereas I positively agree with the creator that weapons ought to be regulated (and are), I take difficulty together with his proposed grammatical studying of the Second Modification.
Not solely did the Founders of our nation regulate gun possession, they included within the Second Modification language that allowed such restrictions — notably a “well-regulated militia.”
Since 1791 and the passage of the Second Modification, courts have upheld the suitable of the federal government to limit gun gross sales, gun utilization and gun varieties. And whereas there stay open questions on an individual’s proper to accumulate weapons and to overtly carry weapons, for example, most states have banned the sale and possession of sure sorts of weapons, comparable to assault weapons, and gun possession by sure people, comparable to felons and the mentally sick.
What has not been questioned is the suitable of individuals to maintain and bear arms. No studying of the Second Modification has concluded in any other case.
Dan CasasSaratoga
Electoral School leavesmajority with no voice
Re: “Electoral College keeps coastal states in line” (Web page A6, Sept. 17).
The letter is a panoply of non sequiturs.
Mr. Markle writes “Without it (i.e. the Electoral College), a vast and significant number of Americans would have no say in our politics.” However, as Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman doc in “White Rural Rage,” with it a majority of People haven’t any say in our politics.
Robert VaresioSunnyvale
Harris, Walz drawingsupport of the honorable
Re: “Donald Trump Jr. delivers racist comments about immigrants from Haiti” (Web page A3, Sept. 15).
Demonizing weak human beings in Springfield, Ohio, is one more occasion of the cruelty and lies of Donald Trump, JD Vance and Donald Trump Jr.
The failure of Republican leaders to unanimously repudiate the vile hate speech of their Republican candidates, because the Republican mayor of Springfield and the governor of Ohio have, is cowardly and disgraceful. The Republican presidential and vice presidential candidates’ false accusations have penalties, inspiring bomb threats and vandalism. Faculties and hospitals have closed as a consequence of these threats, impacting the whole metropolis. The focused folks — authorized, hard-working immigrants — are damage and scared.
Respectable, good-hearted folks of all political persuasions can be part of along with their fellow People to repudiate fear-mongering and scapegoating by voting in huge numbers for Democrats up and down the poll. An increasing number of honorable Republican leaders are voicing their assist for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.
Who will we select to be? Who do we would like our youngsters to emulate?
Barbara FukumotoSunnyvale
