Los Gatos Weekly-Times

Letters

Todd article paves way for paper as supermarket tabloid

Congratulations! Your article about Los Gatos Police Chief Larry J. Todd in the Sept. 18 issue of the Los Gatos Weekly-Times was sensational! I mean that in the strictest yellow journalism sense of the word.

By misinterpreting a single illustration used in a report, you have managed to encourage Los Gatans to bury their heads in the sand when considering gang violence, while, at the same time, mounting a vicious personal attack on the chief. And you so cleverly disguised this as a legitimate news story!

Clarence Cromwell's talents are sorely wasted. He should seek employment as a reporter for such prestigious publications as the Star or the Globe. Unless, of course, your publisher's goal is to turn the Weekly-Times into a supermarket tabloid. Heaven knows we could always use another. Keep up this kind of petty, self-serving "reporting," and you will be able to change your name to the Los Gatos Enquirer.

Madelynn Miller
Los Gatos

Newspaper's West Valley College coverage has improved

I don't think you get too many laudatory letters, at least I haven't noticed them. But since I have written several letters in the last few months that were critical of your coverage of the only community college in your district (West Valley/ Mission), I thought that it was time to say "thank you" for a job very well done.

The article on in the Sept. 25 issue about the wetlands was excellent and well planned and covered everything in a very fair way. The issue of the wetlands, and the impact on feral cats, is important to a lot of people in the college community and its neighbors.

The dissemination of news, either flattering or otherwise, concerning the only college (public) within the district can only help to inform your readers of the resources that they have available within their home area. Thank you again.

Norm Abrahams
Los Gatos

Robie Lane resident sees similarities to Calvary Church

Open letter to Michael Burke:

What you are going through with the Los Gatos Christian Church and the Town Council sounds so familiar to us on Robie Lane.

The Town Council overruling the Planning Commission, and maybe the Town Council realizing that they could be wrong. Or at least, you got their attention as we did on the Calvary Baptist Church.

One of the council-members said we were their worst nightmare. You and your neighbors can be another.

Myrna Skala
Los Gatos

The United States government, as usual, has strange set of priorities

In all its infinite wisdom and majesty, the government of the United States has decreed that the only acceptable form of marriage for its 250 million-plus citizens is the union of one man and one women. That's it. Period. No exceptions. None of this man-man or woman-woman business for our legislative and executive leaders. They have received the word, and they have passed it on to us. If nothing else, you have to admire the chutzpa of these Beltway Bohunks. The country is $5 trillion in debt, the deficit is on its way to being balanced but is not there yet by a long shot, the streets are awash with illegal drugs, and those in charge of educating our kids believe that churning out of graduates is best achieved by lowering the water, not raising the bridge.

And yet our elected officials have taken the time to define for us what is an OK marriage and what is not. You would think they would be afraid of being criticized for an inane setting of priorities. But no. When our leaders are confronted with an earthshaking problem, they act, regardless of the personal and the political consequences. Let the Mideast blow up. Let Russian democracy die on an operating table with Yeltsin. Let the flood of illegal immigrants continue. Let our jobs vanish overseas. These things are of minor concern. We now know the proper people configuration of the marriage contract.

In view of all our other pressing problems, you would have thought our leaders would have aimed at higher targets when setting their priorities. Their accomplishments in the field of holy matrimony is reminiscent of those who insisted the deck chairs on the Titanic be properly aligned as she begin to list.

Frank J. Stagnaro
Los Gatos

Fixed-up version of the Buffalo Co. building would still be ugly

Regarding the Buffalo Trading Co. Building, while I feel Kathy Morgan is probably a well-meaning person, and has apparently served as a planning commissioner for many years, I, as well as every single person I have spoken to regarding the building, can't understand what all the fuss is about.

What if the builder actually agrees to save the building? A fixed-up, repainted version of the same flat square box will be as unattractive as what we have now. Preserving the wonderful historic buildings in our town is one thing, but placing value on anything simply because it is there is unwise.

The thought of this kind of logic helping shape our town for the future scares me!

K.S. Davis
Los Gatos