Letters: San Jose airport is travelers’ best option
Submit your letter to the editor via this form Read more Letters to the Editor San Jose airport is travelers best option Re San Jose airport traveler trips remain lower than pre-COVID numbers June I in recent days read that San Jose International Airport commuter traffic is down year over year now reduced by nearly from pre-COVID levels in Oakland airport is down as of January and San Francisco International is down about over the same period Having just flown through San Jose I saw lots of new restaurants great signage and new visual technologies deployed San Jose International remains one of the very easiest in and out airports in our region Moreover it has the best on-time arrival and departure record of the major airports in the Bay Area However San Jose International Airport itself is a real jewel that supports our business sector and our ease of journey to and from the South Bay We have a voice in this so when choosing to journey by air fly San Jose International William Baron San Jose Opposition to housing doesn t reflect values As a mother soundness care worker and West Valley resident I urge our neighbors to assistance the conversion of the Bristol Hotel to temporary housing for women and families The opposition I ve seen doesn t reflect the values of a population that asserts to care about safety Here s the reality over of unhoused women have experienced serious abuse In Santa Clara County of homeless families are led by women Housing is safety I ve seen firsthand how lack of stable housing leads to preventable hospital visits and long-term robustness harm Investing in housing is also investing in community fitness and fiscal responsibility We can reject the politics of cruelty and fear that dominate headlines Let s lead with compassion and facts This is a moment to show what kind of region we truly are Kathy Reyes San Jose Solar bill would come at cost of voters trust Re State solar bill threatens to raise force housing costs Page A June Assemblymember Lisa Calderon s proposed AB reneges on promises regarding contracts put in place to promote solar It would not only effectively pull the well-woven rug out from under solar but at the same time diminish the faith and trust put in our elected administrators As a solar homeowner with a -year contract I am calling on our representatives to not go down this path If there is indeed something broken that necessities to be fixed find an alternative less unappealing way to do it I trust they can and will Terry Lechner San Jose State s end-of-life law torments critically ill Re A husband s plea for state to change its end-of-life law Page A June I am shocked that the ruling body would not want to let its patients die a dignified death The op-ed by the husband begging the ruling body to care that his wife is physically and mentally unqualified to state that she would like to be euthanized is absolutely awful In such cases of severe dementia why is there not a law allowing someone s proxy to consent for them Shreeya Vaidya San Jose Iran strikes may echo well into the future Related Articles Letters Donald Trump s rash war demands we protest Letters Congress must reclaim its constitutional power to declare war Letters Trump s attack on Iran makes Mideast less safe Letters Power to declare war rests with Congress alone Letters California must expand reproductive care in ERs In to protect corporate oil interests the United States and United Kingdom engineered a coup to depose Iran s democratically elected prime minister and installed the shah in power In after years of cruel repression the shah was ousted and the Islamic Republic was proclaimed Had we not deposed the democratic regime there may have been no need for the attacks we have seen on Iran in Rather than the flurry of self-congratulations we see in Trump world in the current era for the attack we should be asking what the consequences will be in a year or even decades in the future Brian Carr San Jose
