LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Don’t set the bar too high for counselors

Re “Report recommends $128 million ‘down payment’ to train thousands more mental health care workers in San Diego”

since 2010. Strengthening a field is always appropriate, but it should not be destroyed.

Homelessness issue needs a reality check

First. But get creative with things that face the issue as it is — like the “safe parking lots” and especially the “safe villages.”

plant for Huntington Beach that had been in the planning process for 20 years.

Gov. Gavin Newsom needs to take swift action and use his executive powers to override the commission and immediately start this project and many other desal plants along the coastline. Also, San Diego and other cities need to institute a building moratorium until we have the water needed to support new construction.

It is a fact that we are having a statewide drought. Why is there not a building moratorium in place? New houses, hotels and convention centers all use water, but the amount of water they will need is never discussed. But I am supposed to conserve. Why should I save water so that someone else can use it?

Find those who helped Trump take documents

Re “Mar-a-lago search just part of one of several Trump probes” (Aug. 9): Donald Trump did not personally go to the National Archives and load boxes of top-secret documents onto the moving trucks himself.

That raises the very important question as to who in the White House and/or National Archives oversaw or facilitated the removal of the boxes found at Mar-a-lago.

Breen editorial cartoon was packed with humor

Re “Boxed in” (Aug. 11): I want to say kudos to Steve Breen for the Trump editorial cartoon in the paper.

Awesome job. Made me laugh. Made my day. Keep up the excellent work.