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Khanna shameless
with Feinstein ask
Has Ro Khanna no shame? Sen. Dianne Feinstein is suffering from a relatively common illness, that being shingles. He wants her to resign.
Khanna used ageism to take a congressional seat from Mike Honda after Congress-shopping across many districts. And now he is using anger over reproductive rights to pressure Feinstein to resign, just because she has a temporary medical condition that affects many. Who more than Feinstein has fought for reproductive rights?
I am embarrassed that this man represents me in Congress and I consider myself a liberal Democrat. Shame on him.
Thomas E. Farrell
Santa Clara
County has options for
students’ mental health
The Santa Clara County Office of Education and the county Board of Education are working to expand early learning and wellness for all students.
In response to the nationwide youth mental health crisis, which was significantly exacerbated by COVID-19, the office partnered with our youth to invest new federal dollars in establishing critical wellness centers and programs within our schools.
The wellness centers are already showing signs of positive impact, with one center seeing 700 students in the first week and exit surveys noting significantly improved mental health outcomes.
California has acknowledged the critical importance of early education in social-emotional development as well as academic achievement and has begun expanding the free and universal educational bridge between preschool and kindergarten, known as transitional kindergarten. Interested parents can learn about programs available for children ages birth to 5 at the “Steps for Success” webpage.
Tara Sreekrishnan
Member, Santa Clara County Office of Education Board
Putting Easter op-ed
in paper is courageous
Re: “To give Easter its full due, first confront reality of death” (Page A6, April 7).
Thank you for printing Dr. Tyler Johnson’s thoughtful and moving article on the meaning of both Easter and death. Far too many publications are afraid to touch anything that deals with eternal issues and the historical facts documenting the resurrection of Christ.
The truth is that in confronting the reality of death we see that this life is ultimately useless and meaningless — as the dead body Dr. Johnson describes — unless there is the equal truth of the life-giving power of the resurrection available to all.
I do my best to help and respect my fellow man because I believe he is a valuable and eternal being. That’s what gives each of us worth. If we see each other simply as random clumps of evolved protoplasm, it is hard to care about anyone’s welfare, and that is a pathetic and hopeless outlook indeed.
Norm Smith
Daly City
Easter op-ed flies
in face of science
Re: “To give Easter its full due, first confront reality of death” (Page A6, April 7).
I write about a complete lack of editorial oversight that allowed the above-referenced commentary to be printed in The Mercury News. It was written by a professor of medicine at Stanford, who presumably has taken physiology courses. He explains what happens at death, with the immediate cellular breakdown and the atoms of the body immediately beginning to decay.
And then he continues: “This happened, too, to Jesus,” And then “Mary … confronted the unimaginable: a real, whole, regal Jesus-standing … healed and aglow in heavenly splendor. Not dead, not moldering, not coming apart. Alleluia. Alive again.” The end.
How can such a childish religious screed and claptrap be permitted in the pages of Silicon Valley’s primary newspaper; and worse under the signature of a person trained in medical science and practicing at a prestigious medical school?
John Heineke
Los Gatos
Make abortion
accessible for all
The reversal of Roe v. Wade is detrimental for many women across the United States, myself included.
It should be a constitutional right for all people to have control over what happens to their bodies; that right should not be exclusive to men in this country. Legalizing the right to an abortion would ensure the reproductive rights of women, a lower percentage of unsafe abortions and equal access to health care.
Abortions should be accessible to all, as these facilities will be able to help women that need the procedure and not cause any unnecessary deaths that could have been prevented if it was available to everyone.
Nyssa Cuen
San Jose
Source: www.mercurynews.com