Residents shouldn't need to make choices between uninterrupted sleep and the travel needs of the region. Nor should they have to wait for years to finally kick start the needed noise relief as has happened in Guadalupe Gardens. San Jose International Airport needs to serve San Jose and not the entire region. In fact, most major cities have some type of curfew even though few cities have located their airport as close to their downtown and their neighborhoods as San Jose has. The Mercury News had the opportunity to support the neighborhoods and the residents who support and purchase the newspaper.
T HERE is a simple solution to the outrageous cost of electrical power.
The cost to the ratepayer has reached outrageous levels because a third party, Gov. Gray Davis, is directing the purchasing, without any consultation with the ratepayer. The state isn't grocery shopping for you, but it is buying electricity for you at similarly inflated rates. Davis has willingly paid 50 times what the electricity should sell for. Yet he pleads for President Bush to put federal price caps on the cost of energy. Davis' pleas are a pathetic attempt to save him from his own incompetence.