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Decrease bridge tolls with
infrastructure cash
With the newest incoming federal infrastructure funds let’s see if we will, as Walmart does, roll again the worth of the bridge tolls.
Shouldering the price of our buses and boats and roads and bureaucrats’ pet initiatives on the backs of the individuals who must cross the bridge to get to work is solely unfair. Bridge toll will increase are uncontrolled. Let’s cease utilizing bridge tolls as so-called “money cows.” I do know “we” voted for this, however most of the sure votes got here from counties that haven’t any bridges to cross.
Let’s get our tolls lowered to the purpose the place the funds are used to take care of the bridges and nothing extra.
Joe Strupeck
Harmony
Reinstate Armstrong
as Oakland chief
Re. “Police chief plans to ask that he be reinstated,” Web page B1, Feb. 5:
Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao put police Chief LeRonne Armstrong on administrative go away whereas she was in Washington. Her motion was hasty, ill-informed, incorrect and unpopular. She criticized him in a press release by claiming the choice “is vital for the protection of our group,” as if the chief on responsibility was a right away hazard to folks.
Mayor Thao has mentioned nothing in regards to the rampant carjackings, robberies and car smash-ins in Oakland, however she rushed to grab an unfounded grievance towards the chief created when monitor Robert Warshaw snatched a self-discipline case from him.
I began a web based petition to place Chief Armstrong again on responsibility now. Inside two weeks greater than 1,500 folks signed. Dozens have joined press conferences, together with group leaders Carl Chan and Councilmember Noel Gallo.
It’s time to stanch the injury — to public security in our metropolis, to Chief Armstrong, and to the mayor’s political standing.
Charles Pine
Oakland
Satisfaction flag removing
sends improper message
Sadly, my district (John Swett Unified) has condemned displaying equality for our college students, and has taken down all pleasure flags on the flag poles in school websites deeming them “pointless.”
College students labored onerous for a number of years to get these flags up by the district, and now it’s unhappy they’ve chosen to not fly them. Though this may increasingly look like a small factor, it has drastically impacted college students and has them questioning their belonging in school.
I simply hope with slightly gentle shining on this, one thing can change.
Mikala Surman Mikala
Rodeo
Spaying/neutering helps
pets stay longer, more healthy
Through the month of February, it’s necessary to acknowledge Nationwide Spay/Neuter Consciousness Month. Spaying and neutering assist shield towards critical well being issues akin to ovarian, uterine and testicular cancers and may lower behavioral points. A College of Georgia examine concluded that the life expectancy of neutered male and spayed feminine canines was 13.8% and 26.3% longer, respectively.
Moreover, spaying and neutering forestall undesirable litters, serving to scale back overcrowding at animal shelters and fight pet overpopulation. Spaying and neutering might be carried out as early as eight weeks outdated, though the typical age for this process is round six months.
Inexpensive spay and neuter choices are broadly out there, together with monetary help from the Contra Costa Humane Society for residents of Contra Costa County, which went into impact in January 2023. Let’s do our half in defending our beloved pets by spaying and neutering them.
Keren Rivkin
San Ramon
McCarthy favors energy
over requirements
Home Speaker Kevin McCarthy says Rep. George Santos’ standing in Congress is a matter for the voters to resolve. He refuses to censure or expel.
