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Letter-writer came off as self-superior

Recently a letter-writer chastised your columnist, Ingrid McCleary, for relating her alleged behavioral and religious errors in her essays. The man seems to speak from a certain viewpoint of theological, and therefore political, self-superiority.

He suggested a recent Sun report was "anti-police." I didn't notice that it was at all. Perhaps The Sun failed to confuse police with social workers. He lamented that The Sun is liberal. Does he want all newspapers to be conservative? Hitler did.

I remember when the most liberal president of them all led the nation out of the depths of the Depression. Nevertheless, the letter-writer should be commended as one who is sincere even in his errors.

Robert Thoen
Sunnyvale

Plan will ruin area

I want to thank Councilmember Stan Kawczynski for his stand against the downtown development ("Council approves deal with downtown developer," The Sun, June 24). He is the only one on the City Council who understands how to maintain the quality of life in a community. He was quoted as saying, "We are giving away the soul of this community." If the rest of the City Council are representative of this community and cannot understand that statement, then there is no soul to give away.

The City Council has sold out the residents and small-business owners of Sunnyvale for their own personal agendas. As far as I am concerned, they are following the actions seen over and over again in disintegrating communities: Out-of-state people are brought in, business interests predominate the council and free-for-all development in the name of increasing the "tax base" is used as an excuse for good management. In the meantime, longtime residents are disenfranchised; local landmarks are destroyed and replaced by sterile, ugly plazas.

If I knew what to do, I would call for an immediate recall election of all City Council members except for Mr. Kawczynski.

Why aren't Sunnyvale residents doing anything to stop this? Is anybody there?

Sandra Skolnik
Sunnyvale

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This article appeared in the Sunnyvale Sun, July 1, 1998.
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