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Drought calls for
pause in new housing
Your Aug. 22 headline on the entrance web page (“Can space’s drought, housing cohabitate?”) showcases the query of whether or not the drought or housing is the precedence.
After years of perennial drought, the reply would look like apparent. The builders and the politicians imagine each will be addressed. On reflection, a housing and constructing moratorium ought to have been mandated years in the past.
This isn’t a NIMBY concern however a typical sense technique to forestall additional water shortages which we’re presently experiencing. The elevated constructing can even trigger extra energy outages all through your entire area. Let’s hope purpose overrides greed and political pursuits.
Mark Sever
Harmony
Addicts want therapy,
not protected injection websites
Re. “Newsom shoots down Bay Space drug injection websites,” Web page A1, Aug. 23:
Thanks, Gov. Newsom, for being the voice of purpose and customary sense along with your veto on the catastrophe that was Senate Invoice 57. The very last thing any metropolis wants is sanctioned drug abuse on its streets.
Sadly, some elected officers assume that permitting for extra drug use in a protected setting is the reply. Folks with addictions want actual options to assist with preventing and overcoming their substance abuse, no more medication to feed it.
Moreover, well being care suppliers take an oath to do no hurt. I’m fairly positive sanctioning drug abuse is a transparent violation of that vow.
Sharon Dixon
San Leandro
Housing rule places
shoe on different foot
I’ve been ready for this: In his Aug. 28 letter to the editor, Robert Drury decried the existence of off-campus scholar housing in Berkeley, which welcomes all method of individuals aside from us White folks.
Provided that marginalized folks have been excluded and worse for many years, centuries, eons, from locations and alternatives overtly or “understood” to be for Whites solely, perhaps it’s excessive time we expertise what it feels wish to be rejected on the premise of our pores and skin shade alone. I’m positive it’s uncomfortable, Mr. Drury, having that shoe in your foot for a change.
Louise Grey
Danville
Tricks to beat rising
price of staying cool
We perceive nobody likes power payments which can be increased than anticipated. Warmth waves are inflicting clients to crank up their air-con, which might result in increased summer season power payments.
PG&E doesn’t add any markup on the power we purchase for our clients’ use, neither fuel nor electrical. What we pay, you pay. But, the market costs for power provide prices, which account for about half of a buyer’s month-to-month electrical invoice, are anticipated to be about 75% increased this summer season in comparison with final 12 months.
Prospects can take easy steps to enhance power effectivity of their houses:
• Pre-cool the house: use the air-con within the morning or in a single day.
• Set thermostat at 78 levels or increased, well being allowing, when house.
• Change air filters recurrently.
• Shut window coverings.
• Enroll in free packages together with Invoice Forecast Alerts and Price range Billing.
For extra suggestions, go to www.pge.com/summer season.
Aaron Johnson
Vice President of PG&E’s Bay Space Area
Oakland
Conservative Christians
imagine in pluralism
I’m a Christian and a nationalist. However I’m not a Christian nationalist. Thomas Higgins (“The concept of Christian nationalism is a malignant falsehood,” Web page A6, Aug. 23 visitor column) and Invoice McGrath (“Christianity has no place in our politics,” Web page A6, Aug. 25 letter) fail to grasp the distinction.
Most Christian conservatives at present strenuously reject the concept that America must be a Christian nation, wherein Christian views and values ought to dominate. Reasonably, we imagine in pluralism. That’s, that each one folks, whether or not they’re non secular of any kind or non-religious, ought to have an equal proper (as a lot as is feasible) not solely to imagine what you wish to imagine, however to have the ability to categorical it overtly, and, even, to attempt to affect society accordingly.
To imagine that faith should be stored out of politics and authorities is definitely the perfect of Marxism, not American democracy. And all over the place Marxism and its unique secularism prevails it results in the enslavement and impoverishment of all however the 1% or so in energy.
Christopher Andrus
Dublin
Biden is quick and unfastened
with COVID emergency
“It’s the financial system, silly” was the phrase Invoice Clinton used for his 1992 presidential run. Thirty years later “It’s the hypocrisy, silly” that might be related to Joe Biden.
