Stacey Falls, who teaches chemistry and environmental science at Santa Cruz High School, takes issue with a recent Lookout op-ed on the dangers of the San Lorenzo River levee. Yes, there are unhoused people and it is “certainly unpleasant and even disgusting” at times, she writes. But the problem is the “unjust systems that have created rampant homelessness in one of the most affluent counties on the planet.” The city cleans up beaches and downtown regularly – why not the levee, she wonders.
