More on airport controversy
I was just searching the Internet and I came across your article
on the Santa Clara County supervisor’s decision to increase the
county airport capacity. Let me say that I felt your article was
better written and more factual than the San Jose Mercury article
on this matter.
More on airport controversy
I was just searching the Internet and I came across your article on the Santa Clara County supervisor’s decision to increase the county airport capacity. Let me say that I felt your article was better written and more factual than the San Jose Mercury article on this matter.
However, I would like to correct the quotes attributed to me. First, I said there are eight schools within three-quarters of a mile of Reid-Hillview Airport, not one-quarter of a mile. Second, I said that the student pilots are crop dusting us with lead particulate, not lead matter. This was in reference to the fact that general aviation aircraft use fuel with four times the lead content of banned leaded automotive fuel, do not have pollution control equipment, and two-thirds of operations at RHV are simply pilots flying in circles practicing takeoffs and landings. Third, I misspoke regarding the number of people living near RHV. There are approximately 20,000 people within 1 mile of RHV, and 40,000 within 1 to 2 miles of RHV. Not to make excuses, but it is not easy to say everything that needs to be said within the two-minute window.
Please visit www.reidhillview.com for complete information on RHV. The environmental information is also applicable to South County.
Bud Beacham
San Jose
A deserving victory
“Teflon Tom” Springer, I refer to him as that only because he seems to be able to slide under rules of conscience that guide the rest of us in his quest to turn Gilroy into San Jose Junior, has finally received the recognition he deserves by being voted, ‘Worst Politician’ in the South Valley in The Pinnacle’s Best Of edition last week.
Thank you and your staff at The Pinnacle for having the intestinal fortitude to question ‘authority.’ It shows our elected officials that after they win our vote and sit down in their big comfy chairs in the council chambers, they are indeed still working for us, and we are indeed watching every decision they make.
Margaret Baker
Gilroy
