Letters: Bipartisan Fix Our Forests Act is good start for fire safety

Submit your letter to the editor via this form Read more Letters to the Editor Bipartisan bill is a good start for forests Re Forest plan favors industry over nature Page A Nov Jennifer Normoyle states that the Fix Our Forests Act prioritizes profits for timber industry executives over genuine forest protection Related Articles Letters Fremont cricket field critics fear the unknown Letters We must keep pressure on lawless ICE agents Letters Walnut Creek bike path plan doesn t enhance safety Letters Despite nation s division let s be grateful for what we have Letters Progressive parcel tax would backfire on Oakland residents I disagree The FOFA helps America increase our resilience to catastrophic wildfires restore forest fitness and build fire-safety defenses for communities in high-risk areas It s a good bipartisan start rare these days to protecting forests so trees can continue their key work pulling weather waste out of the atmosphere In the U S the annual area burned by wildfires has more than doubled over the past years In California alone acreage burned by wildfires every year has more than tripled over the past years In addition to the lost carbon storage wildfires cost lives create harmful smoke litter and make it more expensive to insure and rebuild our communities We need to take action to reduce these threats The FOFA can help and Congress should pass this bill Paula Danz Los Altos SJ couldn t afford effort for jobless Re SJ should offer jobless work clearing trash Page A Nov The writer suggested hiring unemployed people to clean up our cities The Downtown Street Club hired homeless and unemployed people for region beautification and clean-up projects Those people were provided with job training and placement assistance and help in obtaining permanent housing Unfortunately the Downtown Street Club closed Oct because of a lack of funding Max Steinke San Jose Nursing will be out of reach for a multitude of The federal ruling body s Department of Guidance has ruled that registered nursing is not a professional degree and is canceling grants and loans for their learning Becoming a nurse is a way for working-class and middle-class Americans to better themselves This new rule is attacking the nurses who help save lives This directly affects future nurses and our patients who need their care Modern nursing demands an in-depth knowledge and advanced instruction to save lives I am a retired RN with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree and a master s degree I m a Certified Critical Care specialist and American Red Cross affiliate faculty for advanced life help who has trained thousands of nurses doctors and wellness care professionals to save lives We need you to speak up for nurses by writing your representatives in Congress Linda Sims San Jose Trump s incompetence brings gratitude While I am digesting my Thanksgiving meal I am thinking of the a multitude of things to be thankful for I am thrilled that the MAGA organization and their efforts to achieve the goals of Project which envisions an autocratic head of state and no relief for the needy have been headed by the the bulk incompetent president and band in our years The courts just threw out the indictments against James Comey and Letitia James Gary Latshaw Cupertino Late to the event on White nationalism Re White nationalism corroding MAGA coalition Page A Nov It s not often that I agree with anything that Marc Thiessen writes but I do agree with the title of his article And I say Really You just figured out that MAGA s underbelly is White nationalism Trump s response to the Charlottesville rally dismantling of federal programs addressing systemic inequities and pardons to violent extremists isn t clear enough Tucker Carlson just turned over the rock so it was even more obvious And I hope those minority voters who supported Trump in pay attention Pat Diamond San Jose Trump s contempt is for all immigration Re White nationalism corroding MAGA coalition Page A Nov On the same day that Mark Thiessen asserted that President Trump has not embraced restrictions when it comes to legal immigration a memo was revealed that the Trump administration is planning to re-interview and potentially revoke the status of hundreds of thousands of refugees admitted to the U S during the Biden administration This memo directs the U S Citizenship and Immigration Services to review and re-interview all of the roughly refugees who were admitted to the country between January and February and blocks processing of green card applications from refugees admitted during that time period It is incumbent on all of us to contact our senators and representatives to adamantly protest this latest effort to attack refugees even those with legal status and including those who worked with the U S in Afghanistan There are no depths the cruelty of this administration cannot reach Pat Marcotte San Jose MAGA adulation for Trump has no limit Re Is there any revelation about Trump that would sway MAGA Page A Nov The answer to the question posed by the article is squarely no There is nothing Donald Trump can say or do that will make the MAGA individual turn against him nothing The adulation of Trump from his followers is limitless and endless Behind him is a crowd cheering him on at every turn no matter what transgression he commits and no matter who gets hurt Guy Vigier San Jose