{"id":445111,"date":"2026-08-27T13:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/445111\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:08:11","slug":"that-162m-could-save-a-lot-more-lives-if-spent-on-other-needs-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/445111\/","title":{"rendered":"That $162M could save a lot more lives if spent on other needs \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re \u201cCoronado bridge suicide barrier clears final hurdle\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2026\/08\/21\/new-anti-suicide-barrier-for-coronado-bridge-clears-final-hurdle\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aug. 22<\/a>): Building a suicide barrier is a noble cause in normal times; however, we are not living through normal times. Instead, we are in the midst of a catastrophic period where average Americans can no longer afford food, gas or health insurance, and programs like Head Start are being gutted. It is certainly a tragedy when eight to nine lives are lost on average each year due to suicide on the bridge. However, I believe that $162 million could save more lives if invested in things like health care subsidies, SNAP and making mental health care available to all.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kathleen Butterstein, Del Cerro<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Re \u201cCoronado bridge suicide barrier clears final hurdle\u201d (Aug. 22): Building a suicide barrier is a noble cause&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1564,975,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-445111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-letters-to-the-editor","tag-opinion","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}