Also: Yee’s example | Right thing to do | On-field violence | Feeding an army. Mercury News reader letters to the editor for April 24, 2026.
Regarding the recent article about another toddler who died after being placed by Santa Clara County’s Department of Family and Children’s Services. The article highlights that this is the third child in recent years that has been placed by Santa Clara County’s DFCS and then, unfortunately, killed.
This shows that it is much more than isolated cases and more of a systemic problem impacting DFCS. While the county has recruitment plans to fill vacant positions, new social workers cannot start right away because they still need months of training, as reported in a 2025 hiring memo. This is something that social workers expressed frustration about, already facing burnout and high caseloads.
With staffing being short, decisions get rushed, including placing children with family members, even when it may not be the safest option. Santa Clara County should move to hire extra-help positions to fill gaps. Without enough staff and lower caseloads, situations like this are likely to continue to occur. Shout out for Betty Yee for dropping out of the race for governor.
Now, others, please do the same. California Democrats need one candidates to run against the Republicans, not six to split the vote. Give the party a fighting chance. Currently, we have two Republicans and six Democrats running.
With California’s voting system, we can have many good Democratic candidates, but Republicans win both seats. Urge your Democratic candidates for governor to do a “Betty Yee. ” Drop out and give us a fighting chance. As a Native of Humboldt County , I am outraged by Dan Walters’ comments concerning the return of 4,301 acres of ancestral land back to the Tolowa Dee-ni Nation.
How can Walters find any argument against returning this land to the people who nurtured and cultivated it; who lived, hunted, fished and grew old on this land; who married, gave birth, raised families and were buried on this land, for over 1,000 years? What gives Walters the right to say the Tolowa people should not have their own land returned to them? Because other California tribes might push to have their ancestral land returned as well?
I hope they do because guess what — native land belongs to native people. Support it or not, it is the right thing to do. In Dieter Kurtenbach’s zeal to define the pulse of the Giants, he wrote: “And if you can’t win on the diamond, tell the other team to meet you in the parking lot. ”, a Giants fan who, in 2011, was nearly beaten to death by “fans” in the Dodgers Stadium parking lot.
A tough-guy mandate on the field can turn violent off the field.argued that war is sustained not just by strategy, but by the material means that make fighting possible, with food as chief among them. An army that cannot eat cannot maneuver, fight or maintain morale. If reports of U.S. food rationing and prolonged deployed military shortages are accurate, they point to a breakdown in the fundamentals that Clausewitz considered essential, or logistics as the backbone of combat power.
He viewed friction and uncertainty as inevitable. However, U.S. provisioning failures at this scale, this early, may suggest preventable mismanagement rather than battlefield chaos. Sending forces into contested waters without reliable supply chains risks turning strategic intent into operational weakness. Clausewitz would likely see this as an unfortunate side effect of war, along with a failure to grasp that sustenance is inseparable from strength.
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