Letters to the Editor
Letter From Vickie Fairchild
I voted for Santa Clara Mayor Jamie Matthews. My children don’t play soccer. I don’t live near the stadium. And I have strong feelings about the 49er/soccer park proposal. It’s not a win–win solution. The...
Letter From Todd Dickson
The 49ers’ persistent demands for the Youth Soccer Park to become their parking lot say a lot about the organization, the city management, and their values. 1. They should have told us this in the...
Letter From Craig Larsen
Youth Soccer Park Relocation – 49ers pay Although the 49ers have reneged on their spoken and written commitments to provide replacements for stadium event displaced soccer fields, there is one contractual commitment in place. As...
Letter From Rufino Vargas
Recently pharmacists joined doctors and anesthesiologists, refusing to participate in executions of human beings. The vast majority of nations in the world do not accept or employ the capital punishment. It is a shame that...
Letter From Nick Dellaporta
City governments are motivated to build high density housing developments because they meet the increasing demand for affordable housing and the property taxes that they generate contribute to a city’s revenue. But this creates obvious...
Letter From Rozane Bey-McCurdy
Santa Clarans always had choices. They could have chosen the environment over development; instead they chose a stadium over water. They could have chosen a variety of educational sources for their children, instead they chose...
Letter from Melinda Rosenaur
At 3333 Octavius Drive in Santa Clara, the City Council of Santa Clara approved the removal of many beautiful and majestic Heritage Redwood trees. These Redwood trees had added beauty to an otherwise boring and...
Letter From Vickie Fairchild
When Magnolia was given the conditional lease of the old Milikin site, they were told that SCUSD would be unable to renew the lease because of future enrollment. In the interim, the state mandated grade...
Letter From Kathryn Limprecht
If a soccer field is put in Montague Park, then 220+ children north of 101 will be without a baseball league in their community. The closest league would then be Briarwood, which is already tight...
Letter From Christina Gorokhovsky
I received a notice of the Community Outreach meeting regarding the development of Montague Park. I was disappointed to see that the city has characterized this proposal as a “potential rehabilitation.” The illustrations of the...