Let’s find people to keep our polls open

Voters should reject pay-to-play politics

Re “Gloria outpaces Bry in independent donations” (Sept. 5): Campaign consultant Tom Shepard says special interests that make large campaign contributions do so because of the “pay-to-play culture in city government. You pay money and you have special access to those you contributed to.” So special interests buy influence with their campaign contributions while our neighborhood needs go unmet. This practice is corrupt.

All San Diegans deserve to have a say in the decisions made by the city of San Diego because the city’s decisions impact all San Diegans. That’s why we need campaign finance reform. That is why we need clean elections.

Biking increase story sounds like a lot of spin

Re “San Diegans hop on cycling” (Sept. 10): Where are the numbers? This article provides ridership increases in percentages only but percentages of what? A 42 percent increase in ridership with hundreds of riders measured is meaningful. But if the 2019 number of riders is only 10 and the 2020 riders are 14 and a kid with training wheels, then 42 percent is a negligible increase. Figures don’t lie, but liars have been

Protect our access to critical therapies

Leaving the hospital after battling to survive COVID-19 is by no means the end of the road to recovery. All signs point to the coronavirus pandemic leaving in its wake hundreds of thousands of patients who have significant rehabilitation needs.

Access to physical therapy after hospitalization is

Anyone who has ever voted in an election expects a legion of senior citizens welcoming them to the local polling center. They smile, mark off your name, hand you a ballot and make you feel that your single vote is so important it is worth them showing up for this great American tradition once more.

We all need to vote again, on Nov. 3. Polls must be open for those who do not mail in their ballots. At age 88, I was looking forward to being trained for the first time but my younger, 87year-old husband reminded me about the pandemic. None of our precious seniors should show up this time.

How about some help from the virtual college students and the young unemployed? Poll workers are paid, according to their

Had country known, we could have prepared

As if we needed more evidence that the president isn’t fit for the job. A person with only a modicum of foresight would’ve told us everything he knew, everything his expert advisers had told him, and that it was going to be tough, and that we had to take it seriously early on in order to minimize the consequences to the health of the public and the economy.

But no. His approach to leadership was to pretend it was nothing to get too worried about — that the virus would disappear like magic. Everyone beware. His attitude toward climate change

Nation needs a viable two-party system

My mother, a life-long Republican, died three years ago. Among her last

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