Letters to The Daily News
Cargill salt ponds should be turned into wetlands, not a subdivision
Redwood City’s Cargill salt ponds are the wrong place for development.
First, this is open space. It’s a tidal plain that’s part of the bay; it’s never been zoned for development. Second, the site is far from transit centers, right across from heavy industries, and will be one of the first places flooded by sea-level rise.
We need housing, but we need transit-oriented infill housing, not sprawl.
We need to restore as many former wetlands as possible, both for the health of the bay and to protect against sea-level rise. There are many other places to build housing – there’s nowhere else where we can restore 1,400 acres of wetlands. There is no reason Cargill can’t sell this site for restoration, just like it did with nearly every other salt pond. It’s time for Cargill to join the 21st century — where we don’t fill in the bay.
— Alice Kaufman, Redwood City
Our politicians could take their cue from China
I was shocked to learn that official Chinese government policy is to increase workers wages by 10 percent a year. They do this to build a domestic market that can support their industry by providing consumers with more and more disposable cash to spend.
Wonder why our politicians don’t make it their business to help lower- and middle-class folks earn more so they can buy more and grow our economy as they did when it was the wonder of the world? Oh yeah… Citizens United made it much too easy to ignore the “little people” in favor of the tycoons now running our lives.
— Ed Taub, Mountain View
Why Trump’s approval rating is so low
How can President Donald Trump change opinions about him? His job approval rating is currently 45 percent, according to CNN. Columnist Marc Thiessens’ view is that all he has to do is to point to the economy and we voters will forgive and forget. I don’t think so. He’s still the man of 10,000 lies (Washington Post, April 29) and 3,500 lawsuits (New Yorker, May 13). The nation would be better off if he would just stop telling lies and stop obstructing justice with frivolous lawsuits.
— Ed Kyser, Los Altos
Rocky Mountain high
Various jurisdictions have legalized marijuana, but now Denver has approved “magic mushrooms.”
Now we know why that city has been referred to as the mile high city all these years.
— Paul Machado, Palo Alto