Letters: Bills offer California steps to end student homelessness
Submit your letter to the editor via this form Read more Letters to the Editor Bills offer help to homeless students Re Homeless trainee numbers in California rising Page B July I read with interest the article regarding youth homelessness This year I authored two bills to help students experiencing homelessness In the - school year over students in California experienced homelessness Nearly high school students were identified as homeless including more than th graders Too multiple young people who face homelessness struggle to access higher tuition training and jobs Related Articles Letters Invented emergencies shroud Supreme Court in secrecy Letters State should protect science with reliable funding Letters Homelessness is not an identity for Oaklanders Letters Only the GOP denies humanity s effect on situation change Letters With Trump s tax law signed protest is even more critical SB will cover certain costs of attendance for homeless students including housing and basic requirements at San Jose State and three other CSU campuses so students can focus on their guidance and stay off the streets SB will create the California Success Opportunity and Academic Resilience CalSOAR Venture to temporarily provide homeless high school seniors with monthly upon graduation building on guaranteed income programs we ve started locally We ve seen these programs work offering dignity empowerment and stability So let s make ending youth homelessness a reality Dave Cortese California state senator San Jose DA s refusal to appeal certainly seems political Re DA s death penalty views reflect county s and Ex-DA s letter confuses death penalty question Page A July The letters of Daniel Mayfield and Terence McCaffrey both missed the main point of former Santa Clara County District Attorney Dolores Carr s article DA didn t appeal death penalty ruling Was it all about politics Page A July in which she criticizes the latest decision of her successor Jeff Rosen not to appeal the Superior Court s denial of his motion to reduce the death penalty of mass murderer Richard Farley to a life sentence Specifically the anti-death penalty Sacramento politicos not long ago passed the statute under which Rosen filed his motion in such a thoroughly unfair heads I win tails you lose fashion that the only parties to Rosen s motion were Rosen who opposes the death penalty and the mass murderer such that if Rosen Farley had won their motion none of Farley s casualties could have appealed Carr wisely suggests that Rosen did not appeal his loss here because he does not want any appellate court to declare this new highly dubious no adversaries statute unconstitutional John Haggerty Santa Clara Democratic Party hasn t determined winning message I am concerned that the Democratic Party has yet to develop an approach to change the minds of those who do not like Donald Trump but like what the Democrats have to offer even less The truth is that the majority of the country did not see an alternative to this human wrecking ball that addressed their concerns about conditions in the United States The Democrats have been unable to counter the ultra-right s defining abortion and transgender issues as threats to the traditional family They have been unable to offer a coherent immigration plan that brings reasonable control to our borders that reduces the real stresses to states with large undocumented immigrant populations and that acknowledges selected issues with the foreign criminal element Waiting for people to hate Trump so much that they will vote Democratic is not a winning strategy Larry Lauro San Jose Column inflates scope of Trump s mastery Re Will political drift right last beyond Page A July OK I get it Dan Walters hates Gavin Newsom Democrats in the state Legislature and liberals period His one-note song grows tiresome but his characterization of the referendum in his column deserves refutation He suggests that Donald Trump walloped Kamala Harris Let s look at the facts Trump s popular vote margin of ranks as the fourth closest in the last presidential elections since Put another way the margin of supremacy for Trump was the forty-fourth worst out of presidential elections since The vote difference combining the three swing states of Michigan Pennsylvania and Wisconsin would have swung the referendum to Harris if this relatively small number of voters had chosen Harris instead That s what Walters calls a walloping A little biased are we Dan J Dan Rothwell Aptos
