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Orinda wants to complete
hearth protection plan

As one who witnessed the Oakland Hills Fireplace, for me wildfires can by no means be an abstraction. From our orchestra-seats deck, we watched plane crisscrossing above us, trailing gouts of water, making determined lace patterns in opposition to the smokey sky, and all of the whereas TV information channels have been flashing the header “Orinda Threatened.”

Orinda was spared and we have been fortunate sufficient to have the ability to shelter good buddies within the wildfires’ aftermath.  However right here we’re as soon as once more at a crossroads, with the next issues unmet: wildfire evacuation; emergency response capability; essential buy-in by Moraga Orinda Fireplace District/Cal Fireplace.

As a co-leader of Orinda’s incorporation, I sought to empower our group, not endanger it. Simply as with incorporation, Orinda is as soon as once more being threatened with forfeiting to the political agenda of a extra highly effective authorities entity.

As soon as once more, we now have a chance to responsibly look after each other.

Marianne Aude
Orinda

BART tube will do extra
than serve S.F. riders

Re: “Newsom funds one other BART tube that district won’t ever want” (Web page A6, Could 4).

Sure, clear, dependable service is essential; nonetheless, the column is short-sighted.

BART serves greater than riders going or at this cut-off date not going to San Francisco to work. It additionally serves the north Peninsula and importantly San Francisco Worldwide Airport and as a connection to Caltrain. So, what occurs if the prevailing tube is disabled and I stay in San Francisco and have to get to Oakland Airport, one other BART hyperlink? My level is that downtown San Francisco is just one of many served factors on this hyperlink below the bay.

Gerald Veiluva
Oakland

Gun violence imperils
lives and financial system

Given the excessive variety of shootings and different violent crimes involving firearms which have occurred within the Bay Space through the years, residents ought to be apprehensive about their security on the subject of gun violence.

The Bay Space could also be a hazardous location to stay or work as a result of prevalence of handguns in addition to different points together with gang violence, poverty and drug trafficking. This could have unfavorable psychological results like trauma and terror, in addition to unfavorable social and financial results like falling property costs and fewer job potentialities.

Because the scenario shouldn’t be good for anybody dwelling in or close to the Bay Space, our elected representatives should implement adjustments to forestall gun violence in our communities.

Isabella Marvin
Hayward

Rights exist solely
by authorized processes

Re: “Battle over transgender rights simmers throughout the USA” (Web page A5, April 29).

Your current article in regards to the battle over transgender rights completely illustrates how the media manipulate language to additional the Democrat agenda.

No particular person or group has any rights just because they declare that they do. For instance, males shouldn’t have the correct to enter girls’s loos or play on girls’s sports activities groups, and minors shouldn’t have rights to gender-related medical procedures.

Rights solely exist pursuant to the Structure, legal guidelines or sure courtroom rulings.

Little doubt media of us know tips on how to take care of these issues precisely with phrases. For the sake of their credibility, they need to achieve this.

Steve Mink
Walnut Creek

Renew READ Act
to bolster schooling

In a largely rising world, schooling is without doubt one of the most essential issues in right now’s age.. It is usually one thing many kids shouldn’t have entry to. Fifty-eight million of the world’s major school-age kids don’t attend college and 260 million shouldn’t have entry to high quality schooling. This is a matter that isn’t talked about sufficient by world leaders, given its severity.

The READ Act was signed into legislation in September 2017, and S 41 would reauthorize this act for one more 5 years, giving thousands and thousands of youngsters worldwide entry to high quality schooling. Financial advantages, well being care advantages and the general well-being of residents are all seen when there may be common entry to schooling. I hope you’ll be part of me in emailing Congress in help of this act.

Elizabeth Popovich
Danville