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PG&E making strides
to maintain state protected
Your January 15 editorial calling for a state takeover of PG&E begins with this problem: “Elevate your hand if you happen to imagine PG&E will meet the security requirements established as a part of the deal for the utility firm’s emergence from chapter.”
My hand is up — together with my 40,000 PG&E coworkers and contract companions who're devoted to ending catastrophic wildfires.
It is a new PG&E, with new management and a brand new means of doing enterprise. We're taking daring actions to scale back danger throughout each a part of our system, day-after-day.
These efforts are working. Whereas there’s extra to do, I'm assured the adjustments we’ve made throughout my first 12 months as CEO are making California safer.
Right here’s my problem: I invite your editorial board to go to our wildfire command heart for a firsthand have a look at the whole lot we’re doing to fulfill our security commitments — then share that along with your readers.
Patti Poppe
CEO, PG&E Company
Ending baby tax credit score
punishing poor households
Why is it that conservatives appear to be extra involved about wealthy folks in america being allowed to hoard cash than they're about poor households attempting to feed their youngsters?
Permitting the expanded baby tax credit score to die is simply fallacious within the richest nation on earth. If you wish to develop the financial system, permitting poor households to spend cash on meals, clothes and extras for his or her youngsters places cash into native economies and helps all people. Wealthy folks storing cash in tax-exempt havens and overpriced shares doesn't transfer economies.
I imagine we should always use our wealth to assist poor households feed, dress and educate their youngsters. That's the way you make a terrific and affluent nation.
Invoice Nicholson
Martinez
All faiths should stand
towards anti-Semitism
The Interfaith Council of Contra Costa is saddened by the rising local weather of anti-Jewish animus each domestically and around the globe. The latest assault on a synagogue in Texas (“All hostages out and protected at Texas synagogue, governor says,” Jan. 15) is the newest manifestation of this troubling development, which we now have additionally noticed regionally.
Nobody ought to be afraid of getting into their very own group of religion. The Interfaith Council decries one other armed wrestle inside a home of religion. We stand once more in solidarity with our Jewish brothers and sisters and condemn within the strongest phrases threats and acts of violence directed towards the Jewish group domestically and overseas.
We acknowledge that anti-Semitism is the bottom theology for White nationalism and Christian nationalism. We every want to talk up for higher psychological well being care, disaster companies and extra engagement with these vulnerable to ideological violence. It’s our job as folks of religion.
Rev. Will McGarvey
Govt director of the Interfaith Council of Contra Costa County
Nice Hill
Information don’t bear out
voter restriction claims
In his editorial entitled “In a season of no hope, you possibly can’t assist however develop weary” (Web page A7, Jan. 20), Leonard Pitts wrote that he has grown weary of the fitting making legal guidelines that make voting harder for folks of shade. He’s weary. Interval. He felt no want to supply particular examples.
Just a few specifics: The appropriate-leaning state of Georgia offers extra days of early voting and affords extra mail ballots to its voters than the left-leaning states of New York and Delaware. (Offering extra days of early voting, and extra mail ballots makes it more easy for folks of shade to vote.)
Daniel Mauthe
Livermore
Column’s rants are solely
issues that don’t change
There's a new ingesting sport the place a reader takes a shot each time Victor Davis Hanson makes use of the phrase “woke.” It's positive to go away the sturdiest of constitutions with a buzz.
His latest column (“Biden is main U.S. towards an entire programs collapse,” Web page A7, Jan. 21) blames the woke for attacking hallowed U.S. establishments such because the filibuster and 50-state union, venerable solely because of their longevity. One wonders if earlier incarnations of Hanson bemoaned the lack of male-only voting, slavery, the decline of the horse-and-buggy and the addition of Vermont because the 14th state.
Certainly there are conservative writers who're able to acknowledging progress, versus Hanson’s clear perception that the reign of Augustus was the height of civilization.
Lou Ascatigno
Harmony