This letter is in regards to your staff editorial article entitled “Residents Must Unite to Combat Local Poverty,” from the August 16 edition. I found your opinion to be very idealistic and shallow. Yet in some weird way I appreciated it. While it seemed like a far-fetched expectation to get residents in any city to actually work together to erase poverty and even that initiatives and grant-funded projects could actually completely eradicate it, I also respected your ideas. I have been reading The Pioneer at the Hayward Bart station on my way to work in San Francisco each week so I have seen the extensive coverage on issues like poverty and hunger, as mentioned in your editorial. And I agree with a past letter to the editor that said you do cover these issues more than local papers do. And it should be that way. I would expect nothing less from a Bay Area college paper because who else would we expect to be so determined, passionate and forward thinking and The Pioneer has definitely done that. So while I think this editorial in question is fairly vague in its solutions and a little un-clear, I applaud you for caring enough about poverty to address it so consistently and so full of heart.