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Why did public
pool work in MV?
I was pulling into the parking lot of Mountain View’s Rengstorff Pool for the first time this summer when my two children let out a shout of excitement.
A large water slide had been installed during the off season making a good, yet distant, facility even better. We have had to use this pool since the Covington pool, the place where they learned how to swim, was closed.
After paying the higher non-resident admission fees, I started wondering how could this have happened? Were the local residents not sophisticated enough to organize and sue the city to stop installation of this “Regional Aquatic Theme Park?” Or perhaps they realized that sometimes members of a community have to make small sacrifices for the benefit of the entire community, especially for the children.
Daniel J. Burns
Los Altos
Los Altos and state
budgets out of sync
Your article indicated (June 18) that the Los Altos City Council had approved a two-year balanced budget. Do they realize with this on their records they will have no chance of achieving higher office at the California state level?
Lou Morgan
Los Altos
Don’t ask homeowners
to pay for hospital
With the current taxes proposed by the governor — tripling of the car tax, another 0.5 cent sales tax, bonds to raise taxes for the schools — El Camino Hospital now wants taxpayers to pay for them to build another state-of-the-art facility!
These are tough times, and they require tough choices. With the cuts to services at every level of government, homeowners can’t be expected to pick up all the slack. I will vote no on the El Camino Bond.
Chrichelle McCloud
Sunnyvale
Where are our
priorities?
Americans have a president who relied on a patently false statement about Iraq obtaining nuclear bomb equipment from Nigeria and if he did not outright lie, he carefully crafted a causus belli from twisted bits of intelligence. Now we cannot find the vaunted WMD in Iraq.
Currently, the same sort of excuses are being floated about Iran. Iran must end its efforts to develop nuclear weapons. “If they don’t, we’ll deal with that.” And what if Iran does not comply? “Iran must comply.” Sounds familiar.
A vast number of folks like that tough cowboy talk. Bush is a hero.
No one questions the military brass, nor questions the troops. But after the president made his photo-op landing on a carrier 30 miles from shore and then declared the war in Iraq won, why are we having our troops being killed on a daily basis? And what of Afghanistan, where we have abandoned our efforts there in favor of efforts in Iraq that still bear little fruit and much chaos?
I fear the fault lies at the front door to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Millions for re-election but not one cent for Afghanistan and our national bankruptcy for Iraq. The emperor has no clothes, even if too many super patriots cannot bring themselves to see it.
Charles Halleck
Los Altos
