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Bipartisan bill is a
good start for forests
Re: “Forest plan favors industry over nature” (Page A6, Nov. 25).
Jennifer Normoyle states that the Fix Our Forests Act prioritizes profits for timber industry executives over genuine forest protection.
I disagree. The FOFA helps America increase our resilience to catastrophic wildfires, restore forest health and build fire-safety defenses for communities in high-risk areas. It’s a good bipartisan start (rare these days!) to protecting forests so trees can continue their important work pulling climate pollution out of the atmosphere.
In the U.S., the annual area burned by wildfires has more than doubled over the past 30 years. In California alone, acreage burned by wildfires every year has more than tripled over the past 40 years. In addition to the lost carbon storage, wildfires cost lives, create harmful smoke pollution and make it more expensive to insure and rebuild our communities.
We need to take action to reduce these threats. The FOFA can help, and Congress should pass this bill.
Paula Danz
Los Altos
SJ couldn’t afford
program for jobless
Re: “SJ should offer jobless work clearing trash” (Page A6, Nov. 25).
The writer suggested hiring unemployed people to clean up our cities. The Downtown Street Team hired homeless and unemployed people for community beautification and clean-up projects. Those people were provided with job training and placement assistance, and help in obtaining permanent housing.
Unfortunately, the Downtown Street Team closed Oct. 31, 2025, because of a lack of funding.
Max Steinke
San Jose
Nursing will be out
of reach for many
The federal government’s Department of Education has ruled that registered nursing is not a professional degree and is canceling grants and loans for their education.
Becoming a nurse is a way for working-class and middle-class Americans to better themselves. This new rule is attacking the nurses who help save lives. This directly affects future nurses and our patients who need their care. Modern nursing demands an in-depth knowledge and advanced education to save lives. I am a retired RN with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree and a master’s degree; I’m a Certified Critical Care specialist, and American Red Cross affiliate faculty for advanced life support who has trained thousands of nurses, doctors and health care professionals to save lives.
We need you to speak up for nurses by writing your representatives in Congress.
Linda Sims
San Jose
Trump’s incompetence
brings gratitude
While I am digesting my Thanksgiving meal, I am thinking of the many things to be thankful for.
I am thrilled that the MAGA team and their efforts to achieve the goals of Project 2025, which envisions an autocratic head of state and no relief for the needy, have been headed by the most incompetent president and team in our 250 years. The courts just threw out the indictments against James Comey and Letitia James.
Gary Latshaw
Cupertino
Late to the game on
White nationalism
Re: “White nationalism corroding MAGA coalition” (Page A7, Nov. 25).
It’s not often that I agree with anything that Marc Thiessen writes, but I do agree with the title of his article. And I say, “Really? You just figured out that MAGA’s underbelly is White nationalism? Trump’s response to the Charlottesville rally, dismantling of federal programs addressing systemic inequities, and pardons to violent extremists isn’t clear enough?”
Tucker Carlson just turned over the rock, so it was even more obvious. And I hope those minority voters who supported Trump in 2024 pay attention.
Pat Diamond
San Jose
Trump’s contempt is
for all immigration
Re: “White nationalism corroding MAGA coalition” (Page A7, Nov. 25).
On the same day that Mark Thiessen asserted that President Trump “has not embraced restrictions when it comes to legal immigration,” a memo was revealed that the Trump administration is planning to re-interview and potentially revoke the status of hundreds of thousands of refugees admitted to the U.S. during the Biden administration.
This memo directs the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to review and re-interview all of the roughly 233,000 refugees who were admitted to the country between January 20, 2021, and February 20, 2025, and blocks processing of green card applications from refugees admitted during that time period.
It is incumbent on all of us to contact our senators and representatives to adamantly protest this latest effort to attack refugees, even those with legal status, and including those who worked with the U.S. in Afghanistan. There are no depths the cruelty of this administration cannot reach.
Pat Marcotte
San Jose
MAGA adulation for
Trump has no limit
Re: “Is there any revelation about Trump that would sway MAGA?” (Page A6, Nov. 25).
The answer to the question posed by the article is squarely no. There is nothing Donald Trump can say or do that will make the MAGA individual turn against him — nothing. The adulation of Trump from his followers is limitless and endless.
Behind him is a crowd cheering him on at every turn, no matter what transgression he commits and no matter who gets hurt.
Guy Vigier
San Jose