Mailbag: Officer’s attitudes found to be lacking

Glendale voters were excellently represented when Glendale Community College trustees Vahe Peroomian, Anita Gabrielian, Tony Tartaglia, Armine Hacopian, Ann Ransford and student trustee Lilya Avagyan voted to approve Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, or LEED, certification for new building and renovation projects (“Trustees go for LEED,” Jan. 29).

This was a smart long-term business decision. The public will own these buildings for several decades, and LEED buildings save on operating costs. Certification assures that the building’s various systems actually work as planned.

Thank you to the Glendale News-Press for keeping its readers informed about the lead-up to this Jan. 25 vote (“Trustees split on LEED,” Dec. 26).

NANCY BURNET KENT

Glendale

Right needs to shut it

Speaking of bobbleheads (“President has bobblehead backup,” Feb. 2), isn’t it time you stopped publishing letters from the extreme right and started giving us some options when it comes to “name-calling”?

WJ SINCLAIR

Glendale

Don’t forget the Sinatra at Americana

Tim Ra and BJ Ence’s (“‘Performer’ offends, encourages behavior,” Jan. 29) complaints about the “amplified music” of a longtime local folk singer is petty and unwarranted.

Granted, the guy is no “burliues.” But I don’t hear them complaining about the “amplified” Frank Sinatra music that is being pumped continuously throughout the Americana at Brand next door to where this fellow performs.

I guess one man’s music is another man’s earache. Ra and Ence need to buy earplugs or move to the “country.”

DAVID LEE WILLIAMS

Glendale

Not time to rebuke Supreme Court

The president is a Harvard Law School grad, where he was the editor of the Harvard Law Review. He has also been a Constitutional law professor at the University of Chicago and a U.S. senator.

In spite of this impressive legal background, he chose the wrong time and the wrong place to call out the Supreme Court justices during his nationally televised State of the Union speech.

Using highly charged, legally and factually incorrect rhetoric, he attacked a recent Supreme Court decision on free speech for corporations.

Hundreds of Democratic senators, representatives and cabinet members stood and joined him in rebuking the Supreme Court justices, quietly seated in the front of them. Their message was clear, if the Supreme Court doesn’t agree with us, we will call you out.

Isn’t one-party rule great?

LYNN MCGINNIS

Glendale