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Oakland should act
to blunt hearth hazard

Lisa M. Krieger’s glorious article (“Preventing hearth with hearth,” Web page A1, Nov. 13) reminds us that Oakland’s Joaquin Miller Park is precisely the sort of forest that might profit from prescribed burning.

It’s unhealthy, with overgrown and non-native bushes and underbrush internet hosting quite a few dangerous bugs and vermin. It final burned 89 years in the past in a conflagration that swept downslope to Piedmont. The risk to houses within the hills is big, as they’re merely extra gasoline in one more a part of that forest. Such a fireplace threatens Oakland too, not not like the 1991 hearth. In the end, it can burn.

Whereas a prescribed burn would work, it could be very harmful for the explanations cited by Krieger. What to do? Mechanical removing of bigger brush and bushes together with goats to eat decrease vegetation would do the trick however is dear. Our new mayor and council individuals should make this a precedence to stop one other disaster.

Jere Lipps
Oakland

Hold strain on
CPUC over photo voltaic plan

As soon as once more, grasping PG&E is attempting to kill rooftop photo voltaic. Our previous activism has pressured the corrupt California Public Utilities Fee (CPUC) to again off the earlier plan of a photo voltaic tax. Now their company masters are merely demanding an finish to the rooftop photo voltaic trade. Beginning in 2023, rooftop photo voltaic would turn out to be impractical and unaffordable.

The CPUC’s proposal is so shameful, Gov. Gavin Newsom delayed it till after the election. The governor appoints CPUC’s commissioners and is in the end liable for this travesty. He has obtained a whole bunch of hundreds of {dollars} in marketing campaign funds from PG&E and has helped draft laws to allow them to get away with this. Begin by calling his workplace: (916) 445-2841.

Subsequent, be certain that to talk on the CPUC’s assembly on Dec. 15. That’s once they’re threatening to cross this travesty. They need to  all resign.

Alan Marling
Livermore

Which classes did GOP,
Dems take from election?

If Republicans be taught from their disappointing midterm efficiency that it’s lastly time to dump Donald Trump, then the end result of the midterms would be the greatest it presumably might have been for the get together.

If Joe Biden decides because of the midterms that he has a mandate to run in 2024, then the end result would be the worst potential for Democrats.

We are able to do higher in 2024 than a rerun of the terrible selections of 2020.

Daniel Brinton
Lafayette

Yr-round normal
time greatest for our well being

Concerning normal time vs daylight financial savings time, sleep medical doctors agree that we should always use normal time three hundred and sixty five days a yr.

Quoted from The American Medical Affiliation, Nov. 20: “Ready assertion revealed within the Journal of Scientific Sleep Medication, the American Academy of Sleep Medication (AASM) is unequivocal in advocating elimination of daylight saving time, the apply of setting clocks forward one hour between mid-March and early November. … The U.S. ought to remove seasonal time modifications in favor of a nationwide, mounted, year-round time,” says the place assertion, including that “present proof greatest helps the adoption of year-round normal time, which aligns greatest with human circadian biology and supplies distinct advantages for public well being and security.”

We tried year-round DST in 1974 below Richard Nixon and it was a depressing failure. Observe the science, not the politicians!

Susan Paulson
Castro Valley

Democrats ran
on worry, not coverage

The letter author on division (“Division stretches again to ’80s, comes from proper,” Web page A16, Nov. 13) has harsh phrases for conservatives whereas admitting “the left shouldn’t be with out sin.” That’s an understatement.

Democrats didn’t run on coverage (inflation, vitality dependence, open border) within the latest elections, however identify calling and fear-mongering. It was absurd to say the destiny of our democracy hinged on electing Democrats. But sadly, many believed the declare.

Whereas both sides has its nuts, Republicans are usually not terrorists or deplorables. They’re half of the nation. This name-calling simply provides to the unhappy state of politics and additional divides our nation. Regrettably, I anticipate it to proceed.

Then the peak of disrespect, which results in animosity: Speaker Nancy Pelosi publicly tore up President Trump’s speech after the State of the Union Deal with. I’ve by no means seen such ill-mannered, infantile, uncouth conduct at a joint session of Congress.

Douglas Abbott
Union Metropolis

Surroundings calls for
change from meat, dairy

Whereas the world watches COP27 unfold, I’m reminded of when “Local weather Change Threatens World Meals Provide” was making headlines; prompted by the discharge of a abstract report by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Local weather Change (IPCC), stating what COP27 overlooks.