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Congress should really increase
disabled vets program

Congress need to amend the Around the globe House Offered Journey method on military plane relating to eligibility for 100% disabled army veterans and dependents.

Congress approving the growth of the advantage to comprehensive privilege of vacation around the world would increase no extra price to the DOD. I believe the government need to grant the comprehensive privilege of worldwide journey on Area A flights to this smaller group of veterans.

Several in this team of choose veterans bear the scars of wars, conflicts and each day armed service life and are on a limited, preset earnings. Numerous are not able to ever get hold of gainful employment all over again in their existence simply because of their injuries, quite a few of of which are invisible injuries.

Harvey Porter
Fairfield

Proposed S.J. landmark
lousy selection for wildlife

When other key metropolitan areas are doing the job to reduce down on nighttime mild pollution, San Jose has strategies to transfer in the opposite course by erecting a 20-story-tall illuminated sculpture at the confluence of the Guadalupe River and Los Gatos Creek in downtown San Jose (“Landmark structure has been decided on what is subsequent?” Page B1, March 28).

The style of the proposed sculpture requires to be one particular that is responsive to and enhances the normal ecosystem. It ought to not be a brightly lit magnet that will lure numerous birds to their demise.

San Jose touts by itself as an enlightened, environmentally conscious metropolis. A sculpture of this magnitude with its deathly side outcomes does not in shape that image.

Elaine Gould
San Jose

Solar job is erroneous
scale in erroneous place

Large assignments of photo voltaic in remote areas are inefficient because of losses entailed in the transmission of electricity to the level of use.

Solar jobs (“Alameda County delays vote on solar panel undertaking proposal,” Web site B5, May 2) must never be positioned about useful vacant land. Photo voltaic installations above parking a lot produce mini-solar farms that make dual use of the land, and the shade also safeguards vehicles from the sunshine. Furthermore, they are in parts around electric power use, which is great engineering apply.

Every single sizable parking good deal need to have photo voltaic panels. Also, there are hundreds of thousands of acres of rooftops for micro-photo voltaic tasks, and the buildings below use the electrical power as properly as feed the grid.

I concur with Conserve Livermore Valley and the other groups that the proposed venture be vacated. It is a terrible strategy.

Dave Sargent
San Jose

A calendar year right before election,
California remember is a waste

It is a complete waste of taxpayers’ cash to shell out $400 million on a recall election (“Newsom’s remember to value $400M,” Website page A1, May well 2).

The very same matter will be attained by waiting right up until the 2022 election in which individuals dissatisfied with Gavin Newsom can vote in his substitute, or affirm his leadership in the course of this challenging time and re-elect him.

Rosemary Everett
Campbell

San Jose ought to change
psychological overall health response

Psychological health matters and really should be treated with experienced psychological well being workers, not regulation enforcement. It has been claimed that law enforcement usually responds to nonviolent phone calls all-around excellent of lifetime troubles these types of as homelessness, psychological health conditions or compound abuse. During these situations, law enforcement are ill-equipped to de-escalate or appropriately manage a condition when a human being is in crisis, and this, regrettably, effects in police misconduct or dying.

The city of San Jose requirements to establish other alternate options to policing by funding mental overall health businesses and applying far more mobile disaster reaction styles that allow for disaster teams to be the initial responders in non-crisis cases.

We require to urge regional officers to redefine general public protection and inspire the adoption of policing options. With any luck ,, with these solutions, those suffering from mental wellbeing crises would be handled with regard and get the adequate treatment they are entitled to.

Andrea Harbor
San Jose

Biden’s $6 trillion approach
will transform country

Just one can argue that President Biden’s proposed $6 trillion expense in The us is too much, that it dangers dangerously significant deficits, climbing inflation and interest costs, and a declining dollar on earth markets.

On the other hand, just like the unparalleled quantitative easing the Fed pursued subsequent the 2008/2009 Terrific Economic downturn that gave us sustained economic expansion, and minimal unemployment and curiosity rates, the Biden approach is likewise counter-intuitive in terms of macroeconomics. Contrary to conservative trickle-down economics that rarely satisfy expectations, the Biden plan will provide climbing incomes and greater consumption, a booming company sector, rising tax revenues, reduction in different societal dysfunctions, all while addressing the troubles of climate transform. In addition, this will be accomplished when putting the United States on a deficit-reduction path.

The Biden “trickle-up” plan will provide on these historic aims due to the fact of its unprecedented financial investment in America’s most crucial useful resource, our men and women.

Invoice Musgrave
San Jose State College
San Jose

Argument in opposition to tax
hike does not add up

Some thing does not increase up in Jeff Berger’s assert that an improve in the capital gains tax rate will wipe out his fairness in his property (“Capital gains tax hike threatens equity,” Web site A12, Might 2).