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Cooperation is vital
to fixing water disaster
Your Feb. 2 editorial (“With snowpack down, Newsom must step up,” Web page A6) appropriately factors out the necessity for swift motion on water. Fortunately, a number of the most crucial steps are inside fast attain. California desperately must restore and construct water infrastructure to assist us transfer what water we have now in addition to seize extra when it’s accessible. Each the federal and state governments have handed funding for short- and long-term tasks, however they should start these tasks instantly.
Your editorial’s remaining paragraphs refer to a different crucial piece of California’s water puzzle – cooperation between all water customers on the native degree. With out cooperation between individuals, farms and environmentalists, we'll stay locked in an countless loop of ineffective litigation, which advantages nobody.
Individuals of excellent religion on all sides are working arduous to succeed in a cooperative settlement and we sincerely hope these efforts succeed. All California water customers will profit.
Mike Wade
Government director, California Farm Water Coalition
Sacramento
Photo voltaic payment construction
shouldn't be sustainable
In “Newsom caught between pursuits in photo voltaic debate,” (Letters to the Editor, Web page A6, Feb. 3) Rene Clever argues rooftop photo voltaic is the important thing to wash power transition and altering the present web metering coverage will permit “ruthless companies to set our local weather coverage.”
However the inconvenient reality about rooftop photo voltaic: It at the moment receives a big subsidy for set up prices, receives web metering costs vastly greater than the wholesale price for extra photo voltaic offered again to the grid and doesn't pay the total prices of the system that gives them with electrical energy when the sunshine shouldn't be shining.
The present subsidy system transfers wealth from the upper-middle class and rich who can afford to purchase or lease rooftop photo voltaic from these with decrease earnings who can't afford it or stay in housing the place photo voltaic shouldn't be an choice.
In different phrases: you possibly can’t save the earth until you make another person pay.
Martin Wilmington
Hayward
State’s leaders should
step up for animal rights
It’s stated that individuals who care about animals comprise the only largest foyer within the nation. Sadly, that isn't mirrored in Sacramento.
The 2021 Paw PAC Legislative Voting Chart, which yearly tallies the votes of all state legislators on animal welfare laws, is now accessible.
In Paw PAC’s first 30 years (1980-2010), not a single Republican earned an A grade. And fewer than a half-dozen within the years since have accomplished so.
Shouldn’t animal welfare be a bipartisan subject? It clearly shouldn't be, and Republicans and Democrats alike have to up their recreation. The deadline for the introduction of latest payments is Feb. 18. Contact your reps now.
Eric Mills
Oakland
Well being care failure
prices political help
Assemblywoman Rebecca Bauer-Kahan, the remainder of the California Assemblyfailed to go crucial well being care laws this week in AB 1400.
Endorsed by the California Nurses Affiliation, this Cal Care invoice would have revolutionized our well being care. Increasing entry with single-payer well being care would have saved cash general for our state and in addition saved lives. A research discovered that 33% of COVID deaths in the USA are related to a scarcity of protection, as reported in The Catastrophic Price of Uninsurance: COVID-19 Circumstances and Deaths Intently Tied to America’s Well being Protection Gaps. Politicians usually praised nurses and referred to as them heroes in the course of the pandemic, however when the time got here to hearken to them, Bauer-Kahan and Newsom appeared the opposite approach.
I hope Newsom is challenged within the main by a progressive who isn’t corrupted. I’ll look to help candidates throughout the state whom I belief, and neither he nor Bauer-Kahan quantity amongst them.
Alan Marling
Livermore
Residents disengage when
Washington doesn’t hear
Concerning the Opinion piece “Trump’s legal acts — will America care?” (Web page A7, Feb. 26) there are a number of factors that the writer doesn't convey up.
Individuals have some actual issues affecting their lives: Gasoline costs are so excessive, many individuals can't afford this. Meals has additionally risen greater than individuals might be able to afford. Public security issues lots of people. I, as an illustration, don't dare to go on BART alone anymore. We should always cease passing lenient legal guidelines letting individuals get away with theft. One of many drug shops that I went to repeatedly closed its doorways. I've to journey rather a lot additional, which typically is tough. I'm an individual with a incapacity and don't drive. Additionally, the Democrats, together with President Biden, haven't accomplished a lot to unite this nation.
Each Democrats and Republicans would do effectively to hearken to the individuals. Individuals don’t really feel heard.
Marianne Haas
Berkeley