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Groups have cities,
taxpayers outgunned
Re. “How the Raiders made $189 million in taxpayer cash vanish,” Web page A1, Feb. 13:
If there’s one factor the Raiders debacle ought to train taxpayers and politicos, it’s this: You might be no match for the high-priced legal professionals and homeowners of the skilled sports activities franchises who devise these schemes to complement themselves.
This can be a very robust cause why municipalities don't have any enterprise enjoying on this world with taxpayer cash. Inform the groups to “take it or lump it” and don’t give them a dime.
Mark Carbonaro
Monterey
College students want aid
from excessive value of books
As a school scholar, I've spent hundreds of dollars on textbooks. Like many different college students, I attempt to discover methods to alleviate the monetary burden by on the lookout for on-line copies or renting, nevertheless it nonetheless provides up rapidly, such that college students spend an common of greater than $1,200 on textbooks yearly. The price of textbooks has elevated at over 4 occasions the speed of inflation up to now 10 years, and this acts as one other barrier to accessible greater training for college students already struggling to pay tuition.
Nonetheless, we are able to relieve this burden by implementing a textbook grant program on the UCs. This may incentivize using free open-license textbooks, and permit college students to not be required to pay for assets wanted to achieve faculty. Free textbooks would relieve quite a lot of stress on college students, and all we have to do now's take that step.
Clara Castronovo
Piedmont
Anti-abortion isn’t
the identical as pro-life
Anti-abortion is just not Professional-life. The anti-abortion argument fails on the next factors.
First, it fails on the First Modification’s thought of separation of church and state by selling a spiritual ideology. Second, it violates our fourth Modification’s particular person proper to privateness. Third, the Texas regulation violates the Fifth and Sixth Amendments’ due course of protections. Fourth, it violates the thirteenth Modification’s safety from involuntary servitude to a person or group. It additionally fails within the argument that the state has an curiosity within the well-being of the kid to be born. Enough well being care, ample monetary help and ample emotional help for the ladies all through the being pregnant and elevating the kid to maturity doesn't exist.
A professional-life stance wouldn't outlaw abortion; it could set up the institutional applications that may help a girl’s option to have a toddler by offering well being care, monetary help and emotional help from conception to maturity.
Peter DeLang
Fremont
State can’t delay
whereas drought worsens
The latest editorial about state inaction on equitable water coverage (“With snowpack down, Newsom must step up,” Web page A6, Feb. 2) was spot on. The state of affairs is especially lamentable provided that California is supposedly essentially the most progressive state within the union.
Because the editorial notes, Gov. Jerry Brown fiddled whereas California desiccated via a number of years of drought, losing time and public treasure on the Twin Tunnels debacle. And Gov. Gavin Newsom hasn’t completed any higher, frittering away his political capital by selling feel-good agreements between city companies and industrial-scale San Joaquin Valley farmers.
Information flash, Gov. Newsom: Cities and agribusiness won't ever agree on water coverage. Water is a public belief useful resource, and authorities should lead on its distribution. Because the editorial notes, the California Structure offers the state with all of the authority wanted to implement sound water coverage.
Does that suggest powerful choices? In fact. It’s management, in any case.
Carolee Krieger
Government Director, California Water Affect Community
Santa Barbara
Hold cell telephones out
of landfills with repairs
In the US, People throw out 416,000 cell telephones a day with solely 20% of digital waste being recycled. This isn't solely wasteful however pricey to shoppers who depend upon know-how for his or her skilled and private lives.
It’s time to maneuver to a unique form of system, the place as a substitute of throwing issues out, we reuse, salvage and rebuild. However meaning taking up the massive corporations who would push us into shopping for extra and throwing extra away.
There's a plan of action, nonetheless. The Proper to Restore marketing campaign is supposed to provide each shopper and small enterprise entry to the elements, instruments and repair info they should restore merchandise so we are able to preserve issues in use and cut back waste.
Grant So
Los Angeles