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College students ought to
maintain masks in place
It's disheartening to see that, regardless of excessive transmission charges, so many youngsters are at school with out masks.
It makes me anxious to ship my older son to high school. It looks as if a no brainer to require masks of youngsters which can be indoors all day with one another, particularly when a lot of these youngsters have youthful, unprotected siblings.
I do know it is probably not a preferred alternative, however Castro Valley Unified College District ought to arise for what's in the perfect curiosity of our neighborhood and require masks indoors.
Jessica Klein
Castro Valley
Petersen deserves place
on SRVUSD board
Michelle Petersen, an area mother, dad or mum chief and former firefighter, ought to fill the seat on the San Ramon Valley Unified College District Board of Schooling this November that long-time trustee Ken Mintz held.
Michelle is an academic chief and advocate inside SRVUSD, most just lately as president of Alamo Elementary PTA. She cares about public training, our academics and our children. She is an efficient volunteer chief, neighborhood advocate and believes each baby deserves to really feel a way of belonging.
SRVUSD is a wonderful district and Michelle will work with our neighborhood to safe a high quality training for all college students. Her expertise has offered her with the abilities to navigate this function and competently characterize Space 1, which incorporates stakeholders zoned for the colleges in Alamo, Danville and San Ramon. Vote for a mother who has a toddler in our district and is aware of methods to get issues achieved.
Nancy Daetz
Danville
Details level to maintaining
Diablo Canyon open
Steven Chu and Jacopo Buongiorno are proper (“Diablo Canyon is protected, dependable and may combat local weather change,” Web page A6, Aug. 10). Conserving the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant open is crucial if California is to fulfill its local weather commitments and preserve grid reliability.
Closing the plant will significantly improve the chance of blackouts. Even when plans for brand new renewable technology and battery storage go completely, there shall be an influence technology shortfall of 1800 megawatts in 2025. Conserving Diablo open will eradicate that shortfall.
Closing the plant would significantly sluggish the discount in gasoline technology, leading to considerably extra air air pollution and CO2 emissions. To make progress on local weather, we should maintain all the present carbon-free technology we now have, and use renewables to switch fossil fuels as a substitute.
A majority (58%) of Californians assist maintaining Diablo open. Assist is 74% within the plant’s native space.
James Hopf
Tracy
Get politics out of
local weather change combat
It’s such a tragic day when partisan politics performs such a task within the local weather change concern.
Not one Republican voted for President Biden’s local weather and spending bundle. Does that imply Republicans don’t get scorching in 100-degree climate? Their lungs don’t notice smog and so they don’t see catastrophes round our Earth?
Democrats are additionally responsible of comparable points up to now once they didn’t vote with the Republicans. Some points are simply logic.
One factor I’m sure of – although I’m a Democrat, I'll vote for Liz Cheney if she runs for president.
Jack Gayle
Castro Valley
Let’s plan now for
coming superstorm
The East Bay Occasions experiences California faces an elevated menace of a superstorm (“Prospect rises for California Superstorm,” Web page A1, Aug. 15). Their ominous warning gives two options. However there is just one. We should head for the hills.
Veteran engineer David Peterson warns, “Change the place the water goes, or change the place the persons are.” Nature loves surprises. The world discovered this June 12, 1991. Twenty-six thousand survivors escaped to the ocean.
In 1991, scientists predicted when Mount Pinatubo would erupt within the Philippines. Thank God we listened. It could show to be the century’s largest volcanic eruption in a densely populated space. Shock; Hurricane Yunya lands and turns Pinatubo’s falling ash into cement.
The Marine Corps gave me a front-row seat to this apocalypse. Certainly, a whole bunch of lives have been misplaced. Nevertheless, an epic sea evacuation, often called “Operation Fiery Vigil,” saved tens of hundreds from a Pompeii-like destiny.
What's predictable is preventable.
Mark R. Clifford
Moraga
With federal local weather invoice
handed, it’s state’s flip
It’s no secret that younger persons are involved about local weather change, and the way it will have an effect on our future. Nevertheless, it already impacts us now, particularly in California. We endure from excessive fires, droughts and air air pollution. Rising up, I bear in mind college being canceled from dangerous air high quality. Sports activities have been shut down, then we couldn’t go exterior at college, till finally, we needed to keep house as a result of the publicity to smoky skies was too dangerous, particularly for kids.
It's essential, not only for our future, however for the current security of our communities that we combat local weather change. Congress has just lately taken steps on the federal stage, so now could be the time for California to step up with even stronger motion. I’m glad that the state Legislature is contemplating new local weather motion, and I'd strongly urge California to prioritize local weather at this turning level, for our communities and our planet.
Clara Castronovo
Piedmont