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Letter mischaracterizes
homelessness disaster
Given the struggling of unhoused or “homeless” residents in most of our communities and the Herculean efforts of elected officers and others attempting to assist them, mischaracterizing the scarcity of reasonably priced housing as a sham, as Mark Fernwood of Danville did on this Opinion Web page (“Housing scarcity is a manufactured disaster,” Web page A12, March 19), is irresponsible at finest.
These sorts of shameless falsehoods have been energizing housing scarcity naysayers since 1972 in order that SB9 and SB10, lastly handed in 2020 by way of the efforts of state officers with the accountability for the well-being of unhoused low-income and minority Californians, turned essential to rein in excessive supporters of “native management.”
Happily, in a democracy choose teams usually are not entitled to “management their futures” by unlawful techniques like redlining different teams out of their communities or misusing the California Environmental High quality Act to bar wanted housing on the pretext of saving wildcats from extinction.
Ruby MacDonald
El Cerrito
Harmony ought to spend
grant on street restore
Re: “Harmony receives grant in bid to enhance visitors security” (Web page B3, March 22).
Are you kidding me? Town’s going to spend this cash on visitors alerts when the roads are barely satisfactory.
You may inform when you've arrived in Harmony from any course by the fast transition from good street surfaces in Walnut Creek or Nice Hill, to the tire- and suspension-ruining street surfaces in Harmony.
Spend a few of this cash repairing the roads.
William Donovan
Harmony
PG&E is failing at
maintaining the lights on
For the second time in a number of weeks, our electrical energy is out. PG&E must spend much less on particular person bonuses and develop a plan to underground our electrical energy strains.
After all, I perceive that prime winds injury our energy strains, and that's the reason we have to underground our energy strains. Transformers are breaking, so in addition they should be inspected.
PG&E’s job is to ship uninterrupted electrical energy, and they don't seem to be doing their job. The undergrounding of our energy strains is dear, so some severe budgeting is required to make it occur.
Energy failures each different week imply PG&E shouldn't be being conscious of our neighborhood. I urge the PUC to supply some fast oversight to rectify the state of affairs. And, sure, our energy was out once more this morning.
Howard Geifman
Walnut Creek
State wants effort
to get on even keel
It seems that the Golden State is a bit tarnished. The physique politic is rearing its ugly head and as a substitute of serving their constituents, the selection of the day is to serve themselves.
The roads are marked with potholes, the highways are affected by trash, homeless encampments are in all places and nothing is being accomplished.
And naturally, PG&E continues elevating charges, and I do anticipate the following invoice I get shall be within the 4 figures.
We should do one thing to get us again on a good keel.
Maryann Sheridan
Walnut Creek
Push elected officers
to guard the oceans
When my dad and mom immigrated to America, they frequented California’s seashores as reminders of their holidays in Roatán, Honduras. Nevertheless, the standard of those seashores has deteriorated over time and so they not examine to the nice and cozy, crystal-clear waters of Honduras.
The Gulf of California’s sardine fishery, due to its aggressive practices, has rendered a number of marine species into close to extinction, and in consequence has collapsed 4 instances within the final 30 years. This, coupled with extreme oil spills, ruins our oceans.
Ocean conservation is a very talked-about subject, which is why I volunteer with CALPIRG to collect petitions, mobilize the neighborhood, and foyer our elected officers for the 30×30 dedication to get Marine Protected Areas carried out in 30% of our oceans by 2030. It's crucial that each one Californians urge their elected officers to assist this dedication in order that we will save our oceans.
Berenisse Suarez
Berkeley
U.S. repeating Iraq
mistake in Ukraine
On the twentieth anniversary of our invasion of Iraq we should always mirror on its causes and supreme failure. Your latest oped “The U.S. invasion introduced day by day devastation to Iraq” (Web page 7, March 22) explains neither the defective reasoning behind the invasion nor its failure to provide a functioning democracy.
The neocons who deliberate this invasion believed they may reshape Iraq by making use of overwhelming navy power. As an alternative, occasions demonstrated the futility of extreme reliance on our navy energy.
Now, after a 12 months of bloodshed in Ukraine, our leaders are repeating that very same mistake. Early fantasies of decisive victories on either side have devolved right into a bloody stalemate with little prospect of complete victory. But the administration retains feeding increasingly more deadly weapons into this battle and rejects negotiations within the futile pursuit of navy victory, guaranteeing additional harmful escalations.
Our leaders want to simply accept the restrictions of our navy energy and search a negotiated settlement.
Michael Dunlap
Oakland