Letters to the Editor
Letter From Bob Hughes
It’s clear that the proponents of the stadium on the Santa Clara City. Council has abandoned their common sense i.e., voting $4 million tax dollars and borrowing $6million on an empty pocket budget to start...
Letter From James Rowen
Before the whine of the stadium naysayers goes louder than a banshee on crack, permit me to point out the three important findings that have to be made for this plan to be approved by...
Letter From Wolfgang Schaechter
Re: Milestones 11/16/11 Your last week’s editorial about the unsustainable cost of public employee pensions describes perfectly the symptoms of the fiscal crisis facing the state of California, Santa Clara County, and our City. However,...
Letter From Jim Crouch
Your article regarding the history of the issue of the current housing/real estate and banking/loans in the last couple of decades was written perfectly. Not only did the result effect us here from the government...
Letter From Dan D
Hi Miles, Your analysis of the housing mess is dead-on (today’s editorial). I can remember loan officers trying to sign me up for a 3% stated income load even after I told them there was...
Letter From Bob Hughes
The refusal to release the staff report on security measures by the City of Santa Clara is typical of the paranoia that has afflicted the CIA and other Agencies handling classified materials. This many closed...
Letter From Don Wolfe
Re: Milestones Thank you for recent article in Santa Clara Weekly regarding the Fed Govt. “Jobs Bill”. You make excellent sense and bring clarity to muddled federal policy that will bring our country further down...
Letter From Dick Blanding
Thank you, Miles, for putting so many aspects of my personal and political philosophy into print! I wish our local paper would do the same....
Letter From Ronald Brackney
A few quotes from years gone by: San Jose Mercury mid-70s Memorex President Robert C. Wilson stated: “The vast and growing group of agencies, commissions, administrations and bureaus is actually a fourth branch of the...
Letter From Steve Chessin
Re: Charter Review Committee Off and… Plodding Aside from the obvious bias against PR (only criticisms of the various systems are given, not their advantages), it confuses the majoritarian (non-PR) system of instant runoff voting...