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Vary of options
for invasive bullfrogs

Re: “Battle over bullfrogs hops up with restrictions thought of” (Web page A1, Could 20).

Calaveras Leaping Frog Jubilee is a beloved custom, bringing income right into a rural space. However invasive bullfrogs are very damaging to the setting.

Potential options: Impose a short lived ban on importing bullfrogs. Concurrently provide a bounty to enterprising frog hunters, with the captured bullfrogs turned over to cooks.

As for the competition itself, placing the animals down afterward wouldn’t be acceptable to animal rights advocates. A number of permits might maybe be granted to maintain the winners as pets.

Within the East Bay Regional Park District, workers and volunteers are instructed to report any sightings of frogs to the park district biologists.

Cute although they’re, bullfrogs extirpate the younger native red-legged frogs — a threatened species.

The lack of a species low on the meals chain could not appear to be an enormous deal to the common individual, however the net of life will depend on every hyperlink, developed over eons.

Amelia Marshall
Oakland

Management disaster
imperils our nation

The absence of management presents one of many best challenges to the US and its future as a world chief. Most of the people who’ve held nationwide in addition to native positions and exercised energy have failed miserably in selling optimistic relationships and uniting the nation. The outcomes are home chaos and a lack of worldwide status.

On daily basis I change into discouraged once I witness and expertise the shortage of belief, respect and interpersonal communication amongst Individuals. Relationships appear restricted to people who share views and reject opposing opinions. Few, if any, residents appear thinking about growing groups. The tradition seems tribal and always at odds.

I lengthy for a return to a united America with genuine relationships, abilities in battle decision and intergroup sensitivity. Solely as a unified and respectful citizenry can our nation regain its status and the respect of different nations. Let’s come collectively once more.

Franklin Burroughs
Walnut Creek

GOP funds ploy would
add to nationwide debt

Kevin McCarthy, main (or maybe following) his occasion’s MAGA extremists, claims to be oh-so-concerned by our nationwide debt that he’s threatening default for the primary time in historical past. Sure, the nationwide debt is just too excessive, however sure, it’s the results of budgets already accepted by each Republicans and Democrats in Congress.

If Republicans had been really involved in regards to the excessive debt, they shouldn’t have accepted tax cuts for the very wealthy, throughout Trump’s mis-administration, whereas lowering sources for IRS tax assortment. Lowered income together with greater spending will increase debt.

Default on the monetary obligations which have already been incurred will decrease our nation’s credit standing. That can improve the fee (rate of interest) for governmental borrowing. Larger borrowing prices will improve the nationwide debt even greater.

McCarthy’s refusal to lift the debt restrict will really improve the very debt he pretends to wish to scale back.

Bruce Joffe
Piedmont

Autism prognosis ought to
include state help

Extra must be achieved to help kids who’ve obtained an autism prognosis and their households.

For starters, there must be extra help from the cities wherein they dwell. This is able to be along with utilized habits evaluation and occupational companies.

Town must do extra by implementing packages that help these kids’s interplay with the world.
One thought is to have lessons at public libraries that particularly goal at serving to younger kids on the spectrum with imitation by music and play.

One other important thought is to show different kids and households about kids who could also be nonverbal and the way they will help their friends.

Households typically really feel remoted and must really feel that their neurodiverse infants, toddlers, teenagers and younger adults and past are accepted.

One in 36 kids is being recognized with autism spectrum dysfunction.

Angela Sierra
Fremont

Micromanaging is
a Republican specialty

Re: “State pork ruling invitations interstate financial warfare” (Web page A7, Could 18)

Does George Could have any sense of irony when he writes “progressivism — the moralistic micromanagement of life”? Does he see Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis when he appears to be like in a mirror?

In 2023, the Republican Get together owns moralistic micromanagement and cancel tradition.

Merlin Dorfman
Livermore