Brilliant plan
Editor:
Government plans to spend $3.6 trillion of our money to get us out of the depression. Hard to wrap your mind around a trillion? That’s 1,000,000 times 1,000,000 or one followed by 12 zeros. $3.6 trillion would be more than $32,000 for each of the 112 million households in this country
If each household got a $32,000 tax-free, interest-free line of credit, we’d use it as we–not the politicians–see fit. No delay, no waste, no administrative overhead.
Depression would be over the next day.
Alden Brosseau
Sonoma
Second brilliant plan
Editor:
Kudos to State Sen. Dean Florez for proposing SB 250, which would require dogs in California to be spayed or neutered unless their guardians obtain an unaltered dog license, and requires guardians of unaltered cats to keep them indoors.
Every year, about one million cats and dogs enter our state’s animal shelters. More than half of them are euthanized, simply because there aren’t enough good homes for them. This bill would help reduce those numbers, by encouraging people to do the responsible thing and have their animals spayed or neutered.
Even people who don’t give two cents about animals should support this bill, because our state’s companion animal overpopulation crisis affects every taxpayer: It costs more than $250 million to shelter and euthanize homeless animals every year.
Please choose what’s best for the animals and our state: Support SB 250 and have your cats and dogs spayed or neutered.
Barry Kipperman, DVM
Dublin
Leave the name
Editor:
Mr. Sebastiani, with all the budget problems facing the City of Sonoma, to spend $4,000 to $25,000 to change the name from City to Town makes no sense what so ever. Would not this money be better spent on our schools, the Boys and Girls Club, Mentoring Alliance, Meals on Wheels or even affordable housing? Please reconsider this.
Hope Nisson
Sonoma
Yeah! It works!
Editor:
I heard a rumble outside this morning and pulled apart the curtains to see a PG&E truck beginning to install a lighting arm on the empty pole near the area of the assault on November 6th.
A quick call to David Wallace at the Sonoma County of Public Works confirmed that all seven of the new lights along Vallejo and Arroyo Avenues are going up between today and the 16th of March. As I write this letter five are already installed.
THANK YOU to all of you who came out and marched with us, who forwarded emails, who signed our petition, who put up flyers, who came to the RAC meeting and the Town hall meeting.
THANK YOU to the community organizations who rallied to support us: La Luz, Vineyard Workers Services, VOTM Teen Center.
THANK YOU to our Mayor Ken Brown and Supervisor Valerie Brown, who were both instrumental in garnering support for this issue.
THANK YOU to the Sonoma Sun, the Index Tribune and the Press Democrat for their excellent coverage of the vigil.
And a special THANK YOU to David Wallace at Public Works for making this happen. He told me today that it all boils down to persistence to get things done. It seems appropriate that in this time of great challenges and equally great potential, that we apply this concept to all of the things we would like to improve in our community. If there is one thing I’ve learned from this experience, it is that we must hold our elected officials accountable but that they also can’t do everything for us. We have to have an active role in the stewardship of our community and that means becoming involved.
It’s great to know that even with this awful budget, that our system can still work and our tax dollars can still improve our community. Remember, if you have a lighting concern on your street, you can collect at least 20 signatures from your neighbors in the immediate area and present them to the Dept of Public Works. They will come out and meet with you to determine what improvements can be made.
Congratulations everyone!!!!! We did it!!!
In Peace and Action,
Dmitra Smith
Sonoma