Thanks for debate sponsorship, coverage
As a citizen living in University City, I want to thank the Village News for co-sponsoring the City Attorney’s Candidate Forum at U.C. High School. Several candidates told me that it was the best organized forum they have participated in during this campaign period. Also, I thought Alyssa Ramos’ coverage of the event was complete, fair, unbiased and written in very readable prose (“City Attorney debate mimics City Council meetings,” May 22, page 3).
Hugh Pates, University City
Lightner has provable performance
This June 3 we have a chance to elect a person to City Council who will truly represent our community’s interest. That person is Sherri Lightner. To vote for anyone else will be like pinning our hopes on people with no track record in La Jolla. Sherri has 15 years of traceable, trackable, verifiable and provable performance in the La Jolla Shores Association, The La Jolla Town Council, The Community Planning Association and many projects to establish the Community Plan, The Planned District Ordinance and other community issues.
If you’ve ever attended any community meeting, you’ve seen Sherri leading the charge to ensure that rules are followed, codes enforced and that issues are open and transparent to the public. You can’t ask for more from an elected official other than to be available and to help solve community problems. Sherri has done that and she has committed to continue in the same fashion.
I don’t work for her, but I’ve known her and respect her for her contribution to La Jolla. We need her down at City Hall. She needs 50 percent-plus to win in the primary. Please get out and vote.
John Beaver, La Jolla

Copass points to good direction
What a great experience it was to hear Mike Copass, candidate for the 53rd Congressional seat, at a recent public event! He addressed all the major issues. We need Mike Copass in Congress!
Mike is articulate, engaged and passionate. His is courageous in his opposition to the war on Iraq. He is in favor of universal health care, for full medical and economic support of returning veterans, for a rational and humane immigration policy, for universal access to education without military recruiters in the schools. He is a serious advocate of alternative renewable energy and for immediate attention to global warming problems. Most of all, he is open-minded and he listens to the public!
It’s time for humane, rational and effective national policies. It’s time to allocate tax money for neglected social and economic problems. It’s time for members of Congress who respond to the needs of the people. It’s time for a change!

Tanja Winter, La Jolla

Mall upgrade will make air browner
Re “Westfield asks to upgrade UTC, make it a green mall” (Village News, May 22, page 1): The subject article should’ve been entitled ” “¦ make it a BROWN mall.”
Your article did not mention that the upgrade will result in 17,800 more car trips per day in and out of University City.
Thereby, with all the new smog produced by these vehicles ” the air in UC will be brown.
Matthew K. Wuest, University City

Whose job to clear the broken glass?
At dusk on Friday, May 16, we had a three-car accident at the corner of Reed Avenue and Ingraham Street. Two SDPD patrol cars took care of the scene. There were a few small pieces of auto debris and a copious amount of shattered glass in the street.
On Saturday morning, I drove though the intersection and noted that the auto debris was done, but all of the shattered glass was still in the roadway.
I was always under the impression that the police were supposed to clean up an accident scene.
Shattered glass is litter. Aren’t the police working under the same littering laws as the rest of us? If they don’t clean it up, then, pray tell, who is supposed to? Are we residents of Reed Avenue supposed to go up and clean the street? We rarely see a street sweeper and they are not due until June and they do not do intersections.
I guess that we are supposed to drive over the glass, with our tires, until it is no longer discernable.
Doraine B. Offerman, Pacific Beach