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Hold Liz Ames on
the BART board

Liz Ames is greater than fiscally savvy. I’ve identified Liz for a few years and collaborated together with her in preventing the housing improvement on the hillsides of Union Metropolis. Liz Ames is an individual of excessive ethics and integrity. She is just not a corrupt politician.

The BART board is bending over backward to fulfill the extremely unethical calls for of the labor unions. The 2021-22 Alameda County civil grand jury said that 4 years after the voters spoke, some members of BART’s board and administration proceed to withstand the independence of the Workplace of Inspector Common mandated by voters and the Legislature. BART wants this unbiased oversight of the inspector normal very badly. Liz Ames helps the unbiased position of the inspector normal.

The fiscal issues of BART are actual. We want Liz Ames for one more time period on the board to battle for us.

Subru Bhat
Union Metropolis

CHP should do extra
to make Hwy. 4 secure

It’s time the CHP does one thing about driver security on Freeway 4.

I’ve witnessed too many instances extreme high-speed drivers who weave inside inches of automobiles whereas making harmful a number of lanes adjustments and have full disregard for security. I’m sure it’s caught on many secure driver’s GoPro cameras.

How can the CHP put an finish to reckless driving, street rage and shootings? Elevated patrolling or cameras perhaps? Apart from white-knuckle-driving, what can we do to assist make our highways secure once more?

These drivers clearly have rubber to burn and a daredevil spirit, so one wonders if we are able to “quick monitor” their functions on the Antioch Speedway and provides them an outlet to burn off that so-called “Mario Brother’s” maneuvering, as an alternative of placing our lives in danger.

My household and buddies and I are all afraid to drive Freeway 4 — and we shouldn’t be.

Charleen Earley
Oakley

Meet hospital workers wants
so they are going to meet ours

I spent my Labor Day and my day without work in ache on the emergency room within the Kaiser Permanente Walnut Creek Middle due to delayed medical remedy on the Livermore Kaiser Permanente resulting from staffing shortages. The staffing shortages resulted in underpaying and overstressing our first responders to exhaustion, leading to a strike.

Per week prior, on the Livermore clinic, I used to be delayed seeing a health care provider once I requested for quick remedy. If I had seen a health care provider that day, the physician would have given me antibiotics and I might not have been in a lot ache at work.

I thank the Walnut Creek ER personnel for saving my life. Medication works when medical doctors, nurses and workers personnel wants are met.

Jean Paulsen
Livermore

Slicing fossil fuels
is a Catch-22

Relating to “Prop. 30 supplies a treatment for climate-induced well being care” (Web page A8, Sept. 9), a doctor and mom spoke of the necessity for her to maintain her new child inside resulting from wildfire exercise in 2018 and wrote of the necessity to management local weather change.

Primarily, this is able to contain stopping the burning of fossil fuels. Nonetheless, her article by no means mentions the big advantages that fossil fuels have bestowed on the world and the potential slowing of these advantages that might outcome from the stoppage of their use.

Additionally, world warming isn’t only a native matter. In reality, China produces extra CO2 than all the United States and the E.U. mixed. If fossil fuels have offered nations with a lot, it appears uncertain that the poorer ones will cease burning them as a result of Californians don’t like their suspected impression on its well being care system.

Daniel Mauthe
Livermore

USPS ought to get
with inexperienced program

So the federal government desires us to go inexperienced: recycle, reuse, repurpose, and many others.

Nicely, the USPS is just not consistent with this philosophy. In yesterday’s mail, we obtained two packages from the USPS containing our COVID take a look at kits, one equipment in every nonrecyclable plastic package deal. And after they ship stamps within the mail every sheet of stamps is individually wrapped in “cellophane-like” materials with a cardboard backing. I can repurpose the cardboard however the different materials is rubbish. Even Amazon has modified to double paper luggage to ship small stuff, not plastic bubble wrap luggage.

Too dangerous the USPS can’t observe what’s being preached.

Joanne Berven
Livermore

Time to normalize
our relationships with Cuba

Our nation’s remedy of our southern neighbor, Cuba, over the previous half-century has been embarrassingly shameful. We want not worry Cuba, which is one-eightieth the dimensions of america.