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Alameda County supes
ignore their constituents
Re. “Proposed ban on wild-cow milking threatens rodeos,” Web page A1, Aug. 14:
I reside in Alameda County District 4, “represented” by Supervisor Miley. I requested a gathering to debate the Humane Rodeo Ordinance, on the agenda for Sept. 20.
I used to be knowledgeable that Miley is ready to listen to from “his MACs” earlier than making a choice. Municipal Advisory Councils symbolize unincorporated Alameda County the place the “ordinance may have essentially the most affect,” I used to be instructed. I used to be denied a gathering.
There are three MACs. Boards are appointed by the supervisor(s) of their district. Two boards had been appointed solely by Miley. The third is shared by Miley and Supervisor David Brown. Miley will bow to the wishes of his appointed MAC members.
A constituent in Supervisor Carson’s District 5 was additionally refused a gathering.
The supervisors of Alameda County take pleasure in a carte blanche method to legislating. Voters in Alameda County want to concentrate on the dearth of regard for the individuals who put these supervisors in workplace.
Margaret McAdam
Oakland
Meals banks should
share their assets
That is in response to Mengyuan Dong’s article within the East Bay Instances (“Legislation to scale back meals waste has added to meals financial institution duties,” Web page B1, Aug. 24).
Insufficient storage, the necessity for extra automobiles, tools, staffing, well timed redistribution and receiving expired meals are all legitimate points, however partly attributable to monopolizing meals entry. It happens amongst bigger organizations and their lack of ability to handle the abundance attributable to their greed. Maybe spreading the products and workload with out strings connected would enable extra organizations to take part and ease the burdens and challenges talked about on this article.
Meals restoration teams that decide up from donors and ship on to recipients tackle the issues of meals high quality, storage, staffing and tools wants. Donors ought to low cost their surplus. Starvation is the results of monopoly and paperwork.
Maria Hing
San Francisco
Krugman’s mission is
confuse the reader
Paul Krugman’s “Should People undergo to deliver inflation down?” (Web page A7, Aug. 26) appears to be in every single place relating to inflation.
He begins by writing “estimates primarily based on preliminary information — recommend that inflation will stay low in August.” He should be the one economist within the nation who believes 8.5% inflation is low. He expects us to have fun that the 40-year excessive in July is an enormous enchancment over the 41-year excessive in June. I don’t suppose many People are shopping for that. He then devotes the remainder of the column to discussing completely different means by which the Fed may also help to lower the presently too-high fee of inflation. Go determine.
Maybe the East Bay Instances ought to rename his column in order that it reads “Should People undergo one other ridiculous column from Paul Krugman?”
Invoice McGregor
Berkeley
Christian proper’s goals
for homogeny are clear
Christopher Andrus (“Conservative Christians consider in pluralism,” Letters to the Editor, Web page A6, Aug. 30) is entitled to make up his personal opinions however not his personal information.
Andrus falsely declares separation of church and state “is definitely the perfect of Marxism, not American democracy,” ignoring the First Modification’s clause, “Congress shall make no regulation respecting an institution of faith.”
Theologian Roger Williams, Rhode Island Colony founder, in 1644 famously beneficial a “hedge or wall of separation between the backyard of the church and the wilderness of the world.”
Moreover, Andrus falsely claims that the majority conservative Christians reject the concept America must be a “Christian nation.”
Nonetheless, PEW Analysis stories that whereas most People assist this separation, totally 35% of White Evangelicals say america must be declared a “Christian nation,” 58% say public faculty lecturers ought to lead Christian prayers, and 65% say non secular symbols must be displayed on public property.
Andrus’ letter screams “Christian nationalism,” not pluralism.
Edward Chainey
Richmond
Comedian sensibly argues
we snort at ourselves
This morning’s cartoon “Luann” depicts the very best and most purposeful motive for a comic book strip to be written. Bernice, Luann’s brainy buddy, states to Luann, who’s mulling over which humor story to write down relating to her household, “These all snort on the expense of others. Can’t your story snort at you?” Examine and distinction this cartoon to “Mallard Fillmore” wherein nearly the entire so-called laughs come on the expense of others, and everyone knows who these political others are.
One needn’t suppose too exhausting about which author has the extra wholesome, smart and mature outlook on life. Could all of us attain the enjoyment and abundance of the Laughing Buddha, whom, I consider, discovered way back to snort at himself in order that he can freely snort with delight on the planet round him immediately (and depart malice the place it belongs – out of sight).
Lisa Rigge
Pleasanton
