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Re. “‘Smart’ water meters coming,” Page A1, June 16:
Big whoop. Morgan Hill has had “smart” water meters for years. I first noticed that a lot of meters had a new “puck” shaped attachment on the lids. I opened mine and saw there were also wires attached to the meter. Then, I saw city employees walking the neighborhoods with (what looked like) metal detectors, except they were only scanning the top of the meter boxes.
Now, they’re connected through WiFi and I get phone calls and emails from the city whenever my house starts using abnormal amounts of water. This part is really nice.
In the past, when I’ve had irrigation pipes burst (rats routinely eat the plastic), the neighbor would have to come over to tell me I’m flooding his yard (and have been for the last two weeks). Now, the city tells me there’s a problem in real-time with a phone call and in an email.
What more evidence does this country need to conclude that Donald Trump and his henchmen willfully schemed to overturn the 2020 election, foment a riot and bring down our democracy?
Obviously, even concrete evidence and credible testimony from many of Trump’s former advisors, insiders and colluders are still not enough to convince many Republicans (65%). Columnists like Victor David Hanson and Marc Thiessen along with Fox News continue to grab at straws and create doubt in peoples’ minds that this is all a “witch hunt” and that Trump is the “victim.” That is classic Trump.
He has been a loser at everything and knows one thing and one thing only – win at all costs, using every angle and excuse, even if it means destroying people and principles along the way. Trump and his followers are a threat to everything that the United States should stand for.
I wish to commend Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine for signing legislation making it easier for school employees to carry firearms on campuses in Ohio.
My daughter is a schoolteacher in the Bay Area and she agrees that the introduction of additional weapons into her school would make her feel much safer going to work. In fact, she anticipates a flood of teacher transfers from California and other states to Ohio to take advantage of this brilliant and progressive concept.
As the parent of an educator, one can scarcely imagine the possibilities. Thank you, governor.
Does anyone have any confidence in President Biden’s policy prognostications anymore?
The interview report by Associated Press’ Josh Boak, “Biden says recession is not inevitable” (Page A1, June 17) is an indication of his incapacity to lead our democratic republic.
“Inflation is temporary” shows that he is more concerned with voting in the 2022 and 2024 election cycle than with the domestic well-being of the American public.
“Putin must go” is an example of popular rhetoric and excessively poor foreign policy.
His quote in the interview “People are really, really down” is not necessarily his doing, but Biden is proving incapable of coping with more than popular proclamations.
An unfortunate problem with our democratic voting system is that it is producing very inferior political leadership.
Negotiate low or no-interest loans with an extended timeframe to pay them off, but no student loan payoffs by the government. It’s unfair to taxpayers who paid off their student loans.
I was 32 when I made my final payment. We don’t want to pay for those who made poor educational decisions. The government can’t declare 18-year-olds adults, with all the responsibilities of being an adult, and then forgive the contracts they signed, as adults, to obtain student loans.
Taxpayer money would be better spent on a national program to improve career counseling through career education, K-12, to guide students to living wage, high-demand, robot-proof occupations. A high-priced university isn’t for everyone. Post-secondary education/training that leads to demanded occupations is for everyone.
Help our kids make post-secondary education/training decisions, based on their tested and guided interests and abilities, and we won’t worry about future student debt either.
Donald Trump is a criminal, plain and simple. He and his co-conspirators plotted to overthrow the government to maintain power, and he and many Republicans continue to undermine the integrity of our system through inflammatory rhetoric and lies.
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Are we so simple-minded and impressionable that we will succumb to a flimflam man and his sycophants? It appears so, and even if somehow reason should prevail, this fiasco has irreparably damaged the integrity of our democracy.
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