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Wilcox Senior Debuts Dance, Raises Funds for UNICEF

Author Melissa McKenziePosted on August 9, 2018
Seventeen-year-old Wilcox High School senior Sanika Kamde began showing an aptitude for the arts at the young age of six. Her mother, not wanting to squander the opportunity to...
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I find it comical that Santana reports that City employees are “squeezing” money from every available department to “cobble” something together.  I have a more efficient idea.  How about we cut the salaries, benefits and pension of the overpaid City Manager ($700K) Assistant City Managers ($300K each) and other highly paid personnel?  Jennifer made around $250K a year and the City ran more effectively than it does now without all the drama. We do not need any more highly paid useless personnel coming from San Jose. Those deductions would free up quite a bit of money and would help with the City’s budget deficit.  The residents need to be reminded of the taxpayers' money spent on the City Manager and Assistant City Manager’s trip to France, etc.  Neither of them needed to go or spend the money frivolously that the City doesn’t have. It was just there way of getting

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The WEEKLY reported that the City of Santa Clara is facing budget issues for various reasons.  A few weeks ago, Santa Clara sent out the city's  “INSIDE” newsletter that is now printed on glossy paper with full color pages.  I retired from a manufacturing company and am fully aware that documents on glossy paper with full color sections are considerably more expensive to print than standard newsprint or plain paper.  The WEEKLY does a great job communicating information on standard newsprint paper using black ink and a few color photos.  It is not necessary for Santa Clara to spend the extra money for a newsletter that will simply thrown away after it is read.  Is it pretty? Yes.  Does it communicate information in a better way?  No.  Santa Clara needs to look at simple cost cutting measures and get away from trying to be glitzing when it serves no purpose.   Regards, Winnie Sloan, Santa Clara Resident

Winnie Sloan

Following the death of George Floyd, many protestors have destroyed monuments that pay homage to historic oppressors of ethnic minorities. Recently, the Catholic Church removed a statue of Father Junípero Serra from San Luis Obispo Mission in order to protect it from vandalism. Fr. Serra founded the California missions associated with abuses against Native Americans, but that was 300 years ago. What some people don’t know is that Fr. Serra made efforts to protect the indigenous people of California from Spanish soldiers. I don’t think we should consider monuments of past leaders by today’s standards. Nearly every historical figure can be accused of being insensitive to someone, and if that’s the case, how will history judge us?

Nolan Chen

I write to you to voice my concerns regarding riots, mobs and extreme leftist groups. I am a Sunnyvale resident and a American Filipino Veteran, US Army. I lived in Sunnyvale most of my life(I am 53 years old) and I have never been a victim or seen any "systemic racism". I'm from the school of "judge a man by his character and actions, not by the color of his skin". I am horrified of the free reign of leftist violence, Ideology and their call to tear down statues. I implore you all to look to our Constitution and follow it. Protests and riots/looting are not the same thing. To not do anything to protect the citizens and businesses will cause major outrage. To not protect our historic monuments and statues is UNAMERICAN. Fines and jail time should be mandatory for those criminals. I support Law and Order not lawlessness.

John

Hi, I see you wrote an article around AirBnB holding back large fees for covid-19 related cancellations. I have had the same thing happen - I have been fighting with them around a 27% fee that they have retained, for a booking that had to be cancelled due to Covid-19 travel bans. The host refunded 100%. AirBnB has withheld 27% of this ($461 USD fee retained) and will not give a refund - an excessive amount, in my opinion and an abuse of the Covid-19 situation. This is a student related trip as well. I am happy to share the experience if you have further articles around this. Thank you, Alana

Alana Weibull

With the pandemic and mass protests in media headlines, the State Legislature is quietly fast tracking the agenda to end single-family zones in California. SB 1120 (Atkins-Wiener) will allow lot subdivisions and duplexes on a single-family parcel, so that one house can become 4 units, or 8 including by-right accessory dwelling units. This comes with minimal or no requirements on parking provisions. SB 902 (Wiener-Atkins) goes even further to institutionalize autocracy: it permits a local government to pass an ordinance, exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act and regardless of any initiatives placed by voters, to allow up to 10 housing units in any parcel in a job-rich, transit-rich or urban infill site. Will the gold rush make it harder for home-buyers to compete with developers and investors who want new unaffordable housing ? What happens with inadequate infrastructure, destabilized neighborhoods, or destruction of ecosystem services provided by single-family zones?

MeiLing Stefan

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