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Assist for homeless
merely a PR stunt
Re. “Bay Space will get $5M for homeless housing,” Web page B1, June 30:
The “homeless housing” referred to is vastly insufficient.
For instance, in Santa Clara County it quantities to $6,258 for a pregnant lady. The typical residence rental — if one will be discovered — is $2,500. Pregnancies final 9 months. Do the maths. And what occurs as soon as a toddler is born? How does a mom, who could produce other youngsters, survive?
It is a feel-good PR gesture by Gov. Newsom and his political allies. Disgrace on them for doing so little when the necessity is so nice.
Larry Bensky
Berkeley
Pac-12 defections present
it’s all in regards to the cash
The faculty soccer cash seize is getting extra brazen and outrageous every year.
USC and UCLA, two Los Angeles-based universities becoming a member of a Midwestern-based convention? (“What’s subsequent for devastated Pac-12 with out USC, UCLA?” Web page C1, July 1) A convention that has already expanded to the East Coast (Rutgers/New Jersey and Maryland) removes any pretense of custom and long-standing rivalries as a driver for school sports activities.
It’s strictly in regards to the cash for coaches and directors, not the athletes.
Barry Gardin
Hayward
Biden should restore
safety for wolves
After I was a boy, I spent summers on my uncle’s ranch in Wyoming. At night time the sky would blaze with the fires of billions of stars, and there was soulful, haunting music on the airwaves – the singing of what appeared like a whole lot, hundreds of wolves. It was primal and magical.
Now I hear that the federal authorities has allowed the wolves’ safety from death-by-hunting to lapse. And I learn that they're being slaughtered by “hunters” (executioners utilizing baits, traps and poisons, in addition to weapons) in these exact same Rocky Mountains and valleys the place they'd thrived for eons. That is so incorrect and so heartbreaking.
Please, Mr. President and Secretary Haaland, do the correct factor — and do it straight away. Restore the endangered species standing to wolves, and implement the regulation, instantly and emphatically. Please, earlier than we lose any extra of those treasured creatures.
Michael Talbot
San Rafael
Roe determination was not
a left-wing aberration
All of the information experiences in regards to the Supreme Court docket’s overruling of Roe v. Wade have did not level out that the opinion in Roe was written by Harry Blackmun, a justice nominated by a Republican president, and joined by 4 different Republican justices, Chief Justice Warren Burger, and Justices William Brennan, Potter Stewart and Lewis Powell. Two justice nominated by Democratic presidents voted within the majority: William Douglas and Thurgood Marshall. A Republican and Democrat dissented: William Rehnquist and Byron White.
Roe was not some left-wing aberration.
Thomas Sponsler
Moraga
Abortion compromise
wanted to heal nation
An abortion compromise is required.
I believe it ought to be authorized to abort through the first three months and unlawful after that. That approach no fetuses trying like infants could be lower up or dismembered, eradicating the primary impediment to aborting. This manner either side will get a few of what they need.
It’s time to finish the controversy and to provide either side a few of what they need. I hope you agree.
Joady Guthrie
El Cerrito
Applaud those that
chip away on the lies
Because the ideas I maintain most pricey in our nation are being trampled and solid apart, one younger lady emerges from the shadow of obscurity to inform her reality. Will her story be trampled and solid apart as effectively? Or will her braveness and integrity coax others to step out from behind shadow figures, a lot bigger and extra highly effective than themselves, to inform theirs?
Nobody particular person, from any single vantage level, can ever know the entire reality of any specific circumstance.
If we are able to’t unite by way of a single notion of what constitutes the reality, allow us to be part of palms in applauding these able to chipping away on the lies, one after the other, till no matter stays is able to setting us all free to pursue these treasured ideas we maintain most pricey.
Linda Thorlakson
Castro Valley
Joyner story exhibits
want to hold a gun
The Supreme Court docket’s determination to assist an individual’s proper to hold a weapon with none required justifiable purpose was the correct determination.
On Oct. 21, 2021, retired police officer Capt. Ersie Joyner shot and killed considered one of three armed robbers and tried carjackers in self-defense. Joyner was quoted as saying in an unique video interview carried out by Channel 2 Information on Jan. 30, 2022, that he knew he was going to need to combat for his life as he felt he was going to be killed it doesn't matter what he did in compliance.
Joyner is allowed to hold a hid weapon as a retired police officer due to the potential focusing on by beforehand convicted or arrested individuals who might search revenge. However this incident had nothing to do together with his previous employment. He was simply one other citizen such as you or me however armed — one thing I can’t do.
Michael D. Scott
Walnut Creek