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Legitimize sideshows,
don’t punish them

Re: “Sideshows spin heated debate” (Web page A1, July 5).

Relating to harmful sideshows: Why doesn’t somebody enable the sideshow individuals to legitimatize their pastime? Use the Coliseum as a venue to carry indoor, authorized, secure sideshows and cost admission.

That might make the streets safer, put cash of their pockets, and it may very well be numerous enjoyable every weekend year-round.

Derek Carney
Oakland

Holmes advantages
from White privilege

Re: “Elizabeth Holmes’ sentence diminished by nearly 2 years” (Web page C7, July 12).

When you’re searching for a very good illustration of “White privilege,” simply check out the article within the East Bay Instances on Wednesday about Elizabeth Holmes very mysteriously getting her sentence diminished by practically two years after simply six weeks behind bars.

Do her race (White) and socioeconomics (billionaire) have something to do with this? In fact they do.

Wallace Hunter
Walnut Creek

Help laws
to manage drug prices

I not too long ago misplaced my grandmother to diabetes. She’d struggled to handle the excessive out-of-pocket bills for prescribed drugs. I’d like to see California lawmakers do extra to cut back these bills and enhance entry to very important care.

Fortuitously, the state Legislature is contemplating laws to just do that. SB 873 would require insurers and their pharmacy profit managers (PBMs) to go the financial savings they safe from drug firms to sufferers to assist scale back prices on the pharmacy counter.

It’s surprising that insurers and PBMs normally pocket these financial savings to spice up their earnings as a substitute of sharing them with customers. Susceptible sufferers shouldn’t must pay extra out-of-pocket simply so insurance coverage firms and PBMs can make more cash.

Lawmakers ought to go SB 873 now to deliver some aid to sufferers struggling to afford the excessive out-of-pocket bills for prescribed drugs.

Axcely Cruz
Union Metropolis

Push for invoice that
would save the bees

Animal pollinators, particularly bees, are accountable for California’s biodiversity and pure marvel. All through the state, bee pollination has allowed wildflowers to thrive, produced complicated and assorted ecosystems, and bolstered California’s agriculture. Actually, practically 90% of wildflowers and 75% of meals crops require bee pollination.

California’s pollinators, nonetheless, are in disaster. Almost one in 4 of our native bee species are on the precipice of extinction. Neonicotinoid (or “neonic”) pesticides are accountable for a dramatic decline in our bee populations, main our bee colonies to break down at over twice the speed thought of sustainable by specialists.

The East Bay, dwelling to myriad farmers’ markets and neighborhood gardens, is deeply reliant on native bees. We should act to guard our state’s pollinators. Be part of me in calling for our elected officers to go AB 363 and AB 1042 to limit using neonics and protect California’s abundance for future generations.

Tariq Ravasia

Berkeley

Time to interrupt up
with gasoline engines

Re: “Let’s not put gas-powered vehicles out to pasture with out correct farewell” (Web page A9, July 2).

The article’s writer, Farhad Manjoo, was programmed into romanticizing gasoline vehicles by Madison Avenue and the billions spent by Massive Oil to manage the political narrative. Sizzling wheels, revving engines and “The Quick & Livid” — these are just a few of our favourite issues.

What’s the value society pays for this oil trade gaslighting? Yearly, we spew 5 billion metric tons of CO2 into our fragile ambiance. File warmth waves, wildfires and droughts, oh my. The EPA has now recognized over 60,000 gasoline station contamination websites, leaking tens of millions of gallons of gasoline into American aquifers.

If we are able to’t breathe or drink, what’s stopping us from saying no extra? No to excessive gasoline costs, expensive repairs and runaway greenhouse gasoline emissions. Public transit and EVs can be found. Have the braveness to withstand the seduction of fossil fuels and divorce yourselves from gasoline vehicles whereas we nonetheless have a planet to dwell on.

Andrew Sensible
Fremont

5G expertise hasn’t
boosted web velocity

5G expertise in your mobile phone has been talked about for years. The trade stated, “film downloads will lower from 7 minutes to simply 6 seconds.” Nonsense.