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Letters to the Editor

Hate crime needed better coverage

Editor:

I, like many, were dismayed to hear of the hate crime that occurred last Saturday in our city. As I waited to read about it in more detail in the Voice this week, I was surprised to see that it was not on the front page. Placing the article on page 4 of your Aug. 4 paper seems to diminish the importance of this story.

For such an act of violence to occur on a Saturday night, and in the downtown area, should have flagged this incident as an important story for the community to know about. I believe those involved in the "Dock-diving doggies" would have understood not being on the front page, as they were.

The Voice has run in-house advertisements in the past saying it is a community paper first before using it to line bird cages or wrapping fish. I believe you failed to prove that this time around.

Alicia Crank

California Street

Mountain View has too many jobs

Editor:

The Bay Area Council has given Mountain View an "F" for providing housing because of the jobs-to-housing imbalance. The common assumption seems to be that Mountain View doesn't have enough housing.

I would like to suggest that Mountain View has too many jobs. The Bay Area Council could just as easily have cited Los Altos and Los Altos Hills for not providing enough jobs for their citizens, thus requiring them to drive to Mountain View. We could quickly achieve a more equitable balance by transferring the land that Google sits on to Los Altos.

Glenn Meier

Walnut Drive

Big difference between Israel, Hezbollah

Editor:

Bill Michel, in his July 28 letter to the editor, states that Israel is committing "war crimes" against the Lebanese people. This statement reflects an ignorance of the facts or perverts the meaning of the term "war crimes."

Is Israel supposed to accept the killing and kidnapping of its soldiers as well as absorb thousands of missile attacks aimed at the civilian population?

If anyone should be accused of war crimes it is Hezbollah, who initiated the attacks and continues to do so now. In addition, Hezbollah targets Israel's civilian population, uses the women and children of Lebanon as human shields, and has called for the destruction of Israel. Israel does none of these things.

Ron Lautmann

St. Julien Way