The Cupertino Courier

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Recent additions not
good sign in the city

During my 12 years as a Cupertino resident, I've just assumed our city planners have poor taste in permitting a growing number of ugly and oddball-sized business signs to litter our city. It now appears that poor taste has been elevated to a virtue in allowing DeAnza College to scroll heaps of crimson-red visual noise onto unsuspecting drivers with its brand-new electronic billboard. Everyone watch the sign--and watch the accident rates in front of the school rise like SAT scores--guaranteed.

Someone has spent way too much time in the low-rent districts of Vegas and thinks that's cool for our town. I urge the planners to spend a little more time hearing from their neighbors and spend a little more money with consultants who understand building a consistent "look and feel" for the graphics and signage of our fair city.

K. Yama

Cupertino

Keeping library open
is a fitting tribute

Last Friday, as every Friday, a steady stream of patrons--I among them--arrived at the doors of the Cupertino Library. Like many of them, I was dismayed to find those doors closed and the building dark.

After briefly flashing on such possibilities as power outage, bomb scare and the like, I realized that the library was merely observing a legal holiday, Cesar Chavez Day.

I would not wish to deny to library workers their hard-earned holiday, but I do have a question: How exactly does shutting libraries honor the memory of Cesar Chavez? I don't know for sure how Mr. Chavez felt about libraries, but I love libraries, and if it were my holiday, I would want my memory to be honored not by closing libraries, but by keeping

them open an extra hour or two.

Tom Schaefer

E. Estates Drive

AT&T cable service
satisfies resident

I signed up with the new AT&T cable and Internet package as soon as it was made available. The Internet is faster, there is a better selection of channels and the price is better.

Sure, there are some start-up issue with the new service; the occasional picture freezes and some software bugs. But, I had to reset the Comcast cable boxes more often.

Where my experience differs with the article is that AT&t has always been extremely responsive to any issues and has always tried to resolve them quickly.

Hooray for competition!

Lenny Goldberg

Pacifica Drive