Mailbag: Bigger issues confront the state

We’ve got dams breaking and people evacuating. We’ve got freeways flooding and sinkholes forming. We’ve got hillsides sliding and people dying but most importantly we’ve got newly elected state Sen. Anthony Portantino introducing a piece of legislation to delay the start of the school day for junior and senior high school students to 8:30 a.m. Isn’t that just priceless? I wonder if he thought this out and maybe suggested, instead, that kids to go to bed a little earlier.

Hum, liberal priorities to pay back the teachers union — shortening the work day for them. This is the same Portantino that two of our council members enthusiastically endorsed over the well-respected Michael Antonovich. Well, I’m sure two votes won’t make a difference in the council race but Spence and Curtis will certainly not be getting them.

Bob Tanabe

La Cañada Flintridge