The Goblin corndog, which combines a beef hot dog with deep-fried potatoes, is one of the over-the-top creations at the FoodieLand night market. (Nadia Lathan/Bay Area News Group)
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Night markets recall
visits to family in China
Re: “Bay Area night markets a foodie’s delight, with art vendors, music and more” (Page F2, July 2).
Thank you for sharing the information about the local night markets, and being able to see the food market photos made me nostalgic.
The food and music, especially, made me think of the market that I visited while I was in China before the pandemic. The circumstances made me recall the family members and friends in China as they had been with me in the local night market four years ago.
Limited flights from the United States to China are the reason that I stayed here in the Bay Area this summer, and as the summer kicks in full gear, I hope that there will be more direct flights to China so that I can travel again to see my family and friends.
Yunwen Fang
Saratoga
Voters should decide
on propping up BART
Re: “BART’s desire for money fuels bridge toll hike” (Page A6, June 28).
Regarding the June 28 editorial on BART and the Bay Area bridge toll increase, I could not agree more. Remote and hybrid work are here to stay, so why doesn’t BART just adjust its schedules accordingly?
And aren’t rate increases like this a voter issue? We have an election coming soon — let voters decide whether to keep funding empty trains or not.
Jim Pollock
Los Gatos
Founding Fathers rightly
concerned about religion
In response to the original letter of June 30 (“Removal denies cultural significance of the cross,” Page A6) and the letter of July 5 (“Nation’s greatness rests on more than Christianity,” Page A7) about the cross on the hill and our “Christian values” as a country, our Founding Fathers were justly concerned about the potential pernicious effect of religion on the new country.
I invite everyone to read the last part of the last sentence of Article VI of the Constitution which reads, “… but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.” As a further showing of the neutrality of the Government towards any and all religions, George Washington visited a Jewish temple in Newport, R.i., where he welcomed the Jewish people as equal American citizens and declared that bigotry has no place in this country.
Roger Wood
Fremont
Hauler making it
harder to compost
I’m a firm believer in composting food waste. After my trash service provider asked us to start composting, we went out and bought a 3-gallon container and compostable bags. We were able to reduce our trash by 50%.
Now, they say the bags we have been using for several years are not compostable. They want us to put food waste directly into the yard waste bin. They have also asked us not to put bins out unless they are full. It’s conceivable that raw food waste will sit in the bin for several weeks.
The bags we use are certified as compostable. I am hesitant to just toss my food waste so it can sit in the heat for several weeks. I think they need to improve their process so these bags can be composted. I have relatives living in other cities who do not have this problem.
Steve Nestle
San Jose
Court’s decision doesn’t
honor civil rights martyrs
We the people suffered an egregious blow to our freedom this holiday week from a Supreme Court that has until recently been a protector of our rights. We are being “groomed” for a return to the “good old days” of being told, “We don’t serve your kind here.”
In the ’60s I was with a group that was refused restaurant service because one of our members was wearing a Star of David. That was the first time I heard that sad phrase.
And yet, that is what the malefactors of great power in our depraved Supreme Court are setting us up for. They are taking back the human rights that previous generations of justices and many martyrs of the civil rights movement fought for and in some cases died for.
We must not let them succeed in forcing us back to those grim earlier times.
Ed Taub
Mountain View
Local ordinances aim to
dumb down body politic
In certain states and local jurisdictions, we have people who want to limit education and reading to a short list of “approved” subjects. They do not want to allow people, especially the younger ones, to think for themselves. This creates a culture of small-mindedness.
We should establish a rating system to designate these jurisdictions as “Small-Minded I,” Small-Minded II,” etc. Students applying for college could then write “I am trying to escape my Small-Minded II environment” on their college-application essays.
The same thing could be done for those states limiting women’s rights and denying LGBTQ rights. The ratings would be “Taliban I,” “Taliban II,” and so on.
John Cormode
Mountain View