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We could help our children from falling through the cracks by using the state's budget surplus to help low-income California families. If we could provide $2,000 per child, it would cost the state less than $5 billion. Many Low-income families are already suffering the consequences of the recently-expired monthly federal Child Tax Credit which in the past helped reduce child poverty by 33% in California. Since the Child Tax Credit has expired, we have seen dramatic increases in Child poverty (especially with Black and Latino/Latinx children) while the price of basic goods like food and gas have sky rocketed. Now more than ever we can radically reduce child poverty with tax credits targeted to low-income families. Please Governor Newsom and the California Legislature choose to help our kids and families from serious hardship. Thank you! Thank you, Caroline Hicks PALO ALTO, CA

Caroline Hicks

We need humane priorities. The most needy, should be the first to be helped. Fifty percent of the budget used for health and education. Nearly half of all people here are low income and poor. Fifty two percent are children. They are our future. Reduce Poverty with tax credits targeted to low income families. If we raise up the bottom, it raises everyone. Thank you, Shauna Gunderson SANTA CRUZ, CA

Shauna Gunderson

Watching the immediate TV coverage of the Uvalde incident was a suffocating experience. All the empty questions constituted a metaphor for the decades-long failed approach to the prevention of hate, violence, and mental illness. Where will the FBI fly in from, what was the role of the Border Police, has the President been briefed, who will the FBI question and what will they ask? What about the shooter’s social media postings, what was his motive, what did witnesses and neighbors see and think, how many shots did neighbors hear? How are people finding out their child or teacher is okay, why do active shooter incidents continue to grow, how sad it is for parents who won’t be able to drop a child off to school any longer. Talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk. Apparently nobody knows what to do.

Kimball Shinkoskey

Baby formula dearth added to baby dearth Dear Editor, The birth rate in America has been spiraling downward for decades, and now we can add to that the unavailability of baby food to feed the few who do appear on the scene. Once again, ordinary folk are being treated to the reality of the extreme deficiencies of a monopoly economy, with only a handful of large companies cranking out this and other products and services in America. Since the 1970s, America turned hard in favor of monopoly in business, industry, finance, and just about everything else. Monopoly is the economic system of autocracy. Both systems want to limit the privilege of participation to only a few favored persons or entities. The people need to commit our political candidaes to an anti-trust agenda. Our babies are depending upon it.

Kimball Shinkoskey

In the wake of the Buffalo racist killings, Joe Biden says evil will not win. Joe Biden cannot change human nature by means of emotional speeches or even by means of sound public policy. More likely, the President does not intend to work on the problem of evil actions, evil words, or even evil thoughts. He is working on winning over “evil” votes that could be cast for the other party. That is why he showed up in Buffalo for the photo op in the first place. Joe can’t control the court or the Congress. He can’t control Putin and he can’t control the American people. Mr. Biden ought to remind people that it is their responsibility, not his, to end hate and violence. Edmund Burke said evil triumphs only when good men do nothing. Apparently good men and women aren’t doing much today at all.

Kimball Shinkoskey

Since I was elected in Nov. 2020, I have received about 80 California Public Record Act (PRA) requests for my emails, texts and notes. Of those, 60 are from former Santa Clara resident, James Rowen, who seems to be doing this to curry favor with Mayor Lisa Gillmor. In fact, I received six PRAs today (May 17) and five on May 13th. I believe these were made in retaliation for my Op-Ed published in San Jose Spotlight on May 12th: “Jain: California Public Records Act weaponized to harass elected officials”. I estimate that I have spent over 100 hours responding to Rowen’s PRA requests and that his PRAs have cost the City thousands of dollars in staff time to read and redact portions of the released documents. Our City Attorney has not once admonished me for any of the wild claims Rowen has made in his daily email screeds to

Suds Jain

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