Going to miss Sylvia Hamilton, a champion for South County residents
Dear Editor,
Sylvia Hamilton was an outstanding advocate for all of us in the South County.
She championed our rights for pure water and a clean environment when perchlorate was found in our water supply. She stood for San Martin, Gilroy and Morgan Hill residents when the county wanted to expand the local airport to include jet airplanes.
She stood hard and fast and she did it with a smile. Politics was new to her. She did not change because of it but made others change because of her.
I will miss her dearly.
Mark Grzan, Morgan Hill
No sequestration pain whatsoever at the top in the Obama White House
Dear Editor,
No more White House tours, no White House Easter Egg Hunt all because of sequestration. That is understandable.
If that is true how the vice president can afford to spend $585,000.50 and $459,388.65 for a total of $1,044, 389.15 on hotels? This sort of extravagance makes people wonder if we have different rules for government employees. The president still can afford to take a 600-person entourage to Israel and the First Lady still has 23 assistants.
The Department of Homeland Security has enough money to buy 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition. Can someone explain this to me?
Keith C. De Filippis, San Jose
Please don’t forget about the ‘other’ charter school operating in Morgan Hill
Dear Editor,
I read with interest your article in the Morgan Hill Times regarding Navigator Prep coming to Morgan Hill. That said, I would like to correct a misperception on the part of the Times. This is not the first time I’ve read about a new charter school being the “second charter school in the city.”
Morgan Hill currently has TWO charter schools: Charter School of Morgan Hill AND Silicon Valley Flex Academy.
Our school is located in the business park behind the Cochrane Plaza Shopping Center. We use a blended learning model which combines on-line curriculum with a brick-and-mortar school where students have access to on-site core teachers and attend school every day.
We serve 6th to 12th grade students, and currently have just under 200 students with plans to expand to 300 in the coming year.
We invite your readers and you to come by for a tour. We have regularly scheduled tours every Tuesday at 10 a.m., but I or Jean Southland, our Head of School, would be happy to provide anyone with a tour. You can also visit our website for more information: www.svflex.org.
Veronica Kent-Hoyle, Morgan Hill
Leaders gouge us, but condemn legal businesses
Dear Editor,
While condemning perfectly legal businesses, our local elected leaders continue to support public sector transit boondoggles which inflict many millions, and tens of millions, and hundreds of millions more in damage to motorists, taxpayers and truckers, and especially small business owners, with massive taxpayer dependent fiascoes like VTA Lite Rail, Caltrain, etc.
Motorists are gouged by local elected leaders, raping us with their cohorts in the county, state and federal government, by forcing us to pay 99 percent of the fully amortized costs of transit riders’ rides. And now they want the Bullet Train. Have they no shame?
How can they credibly criticize legal business practices with their continual gauging of motorists, taxpayers and truckers? They have no ethical sense of their hypocrisy, while they crucify small business owners in every possible conceivable way.
Our state constitution prohibits municipal governments from contrary governance of state governed conduct, e.g., usury. Therefore, the city government cannot act contrary to the state law on the field. If there is to be tarring and feathering, let’s put the City Council at the head of the line.
Joseph P. Thompson, Past-President,
Gilroy-Morgan Hill Bar Assn.
