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Vote for Josey
for Dublin council
I want to encourage folks to reelect Jean Josey for the Dublin Metropolis Council. As a part of town of Dublin’s fiscal sustainability process drive 5 years in the past, I acquired to see her capacity to work with folks of divergent views and backgrounds, and the diligent approach she prepares.
Her historical past of volunteering and being unafraid of management began nearly 20 years in the past because the Mum or dad College Council president at Dublin Elementary and Wells Center faculties. She is extraordinarily clever, and equally personable, and enjoys the arduous work of studying as a lot as she will a couple of topic earlier than making her selections. She doesn’t take marketing campaign funding from builders and retains herself out of conditions that might current a battle of curiosity. Her selections are solely based mostly on what's greatest for town she loves.
We want extra candidates who're as selfless and dedicated as Jean.
Joe Washington
Dublin
$1.1 billion an excessive amount of
for trashy highways
Re. “Assistance is on the way in which for ‘trashy’ California freeways: Roadshow,” Sept. 25:
Sure, California’s highways are stuffed with trash, however spending $1.1 billion of public funds to wash up trash is a trashy resolution.
I used to be raised to throw my trash within the rubbish, and I raised my three kids to take action as properly. If California carried out its current penal code for littering and allowed residents to take footage of offenders and ship them to Caltrans in order that the litterers can be held accountable, we might have a military of trash collectors. An extra deterrent can be to extend the time of offenders for selecting up roadside litter to a whole week of service.
I used to be additionally taught that cash doesn't develop on timber. Looks as if cash grows on timber in California, and I can consider quite a bit higher use of $1.1 billion than to wash up different folks’s trash.
Andrea Bloom
Pleasanton
Column ought to have
inspired dialog
I used to be astonished by Amy Dickinson’s response to a question from an individual upset a couple of neighbor’s flag (“Neighbors fret over massive flag,” Web page B14, Sept. 22).
The individual asking for recommendation made an effort to be apolitical. It may have been a couple of U.S. flag, an Earth flag, a Ukrainian flag or one thing with textual content.
All we're informed is that the flag is objectionable due to its “message,” measurement, proximity and flapping noise. But Amy selected to finish with the attraction or command, “God bless America!”
This had nothing to do with the question. There was no good motive to inject any spiritual sentiment.
Anyway, our secular Structure ensures that American patriotism doesn't require beliefs in elves, fairies — or gods.
Along with introducing a divisive remark, Amy didn't reiterate in her abstract what is probably going probably the most useful recommendation she advised earlier — to really speak with the neighbor in regards to the concern.
Jon Alexandr
Nice Hill
GOP introduced us shut
to Putin’s wildest dream
Republican positions usually are not usually widespread. Who’d vote, in spite of everything, for extra tax cuts for billionaires, extra air pollution, banking deregulation, gutting Medicare, privatizing Social Safety, delivery jobs abroad, retaining drug costs excessive, voter suppression, stopping employees from forming unions, undermining worldwide cooperation on local weather change and withdrawing from NATO?
Republicans additionally voted no on capping out-of-pocket well being care prices for seniors, reducing medical insurance prices for 13 million Individuals, creating tens of millions of clean-energy jobs, making massive firms pay extra of their fair proportion in taxes, making tax cheats pay, and reducing the prices of kid care and training.
If issues had gone the opposite approach on Jan. 6, it will have been a victory past Vladimir Putin’s wildest dream: an authoritarian United States that breaks away from democracy, ditches NATO and embraces an isolationist, White nationalist chief with a passion for giant navy parades.
Frank Grygus
San Ramon
Musk’s feedback level
at path towards peace
Elon Musk proposes an finish to the Ukraine struggle by an settlement to make Ukraine a impartial nation. That may imply ending NATO’s push to increase its attain to Ukraine’s border with Russia. It's only cheap; our nation would by no means enable an adversary to station troops and struggle materials, together with nuclear-capable missiles, wherever close to our borders.
Musk’s proposal was met with a refrain of concern – that’s how uncommon it's that a outstanding voice for peace is ready to break by in a tightly managed media panorama.
For that motive, you might be to be counseled for operating the opinion piece “Cease fanning the flames of struggle. Search a ceasefire in Ukraine” (Web page A6, Sept. 29). I can solely hope that you'll proceed to permit the expression of voices that oppose the predominant reporting and opinion on this struggle.
Mark Demming
Oakland