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Missed grant deadline
requires change at high
Re: “Oakland misses deadline for state crime support” (Web page A1, Sept. 16).
The information that Oakland’s Financial & Workforce Growth division did not submit the state grant software on time is extraordinarily disappointing. Nevertheless, please don’t throw particular hires or consultants on the downside. As a substitute, use the people who find themselves already benefiting from the residents’ tax {dollars} to get the EWDD’s home so as.
In response to town’s web site, the EWDD has a employees of about 28 folks, plus the division head. In the event you rent a further individual for grant purposes, it’s good to hearth those that are already presupposed to be doing that job. Think about a change in management, additionally.
Oakland is my hometown, and in my lifetime, crime has by no means been this dangerous. I’m saddened to see how Oakland has modified.
Finally the buck stops with Mayor Sheng Thao. Please deal with this judiciously.
Peggy Simmons
Hercules
Calling out NAACP on
crime stance is racist
Progressive Blacks in Oakland are mad on the native NAACP for supporting “powerful on crime” insurance policies even when crime in Oakland is now utterly uncontrolled. Are they severe?
To be in opposition to crime shouldn’t be racism, and wanting accountability for legal conduct can’t be shouted down simply because a sure share of the suspects concerned are folks of coloration.
To excuse or ignore such conduct due to race is definitely racism at its worst since this pondering will solely additional destroy the Black neighborhood from inside by encouraging ever extra lawlessness.
Nick Yale
Oakland
PG&E’s name for price hikes
on high of hikes was buried
Re: “PG&E prospects dealing with large invoice will increase” (Web page B1, Sept. 15).
This time PG&E is asking for 2 raises in charges on high of earlier price hikes.
It will be nice in the event that they put their stockholders on a dividend weight loss program and put extra money into the work that must be carried out first. Or if not stockholders then maybe scale back the pay and perks of higher administration. After all, the PUC will go together with PG&E. Possibly they are going to make them scale back the requested raises by some minor quantity.
My query for this newspaper is why this text wasn’t on the entrance web page above the fold as a substitute of the feel-good articles that have been there as a substitute.
Dorothy Miller
Pittsburg
Payments advancing Alzheimer’s
analysis want assist
Whereas volunteering at a day middle for folks with Alzheimer’s, I met Dave, a 38-year-old not too long ago recognized with the illness. Dave was dealing with bodily and cognitive challenges that appeared uncommon and stunning for somebody his age. As I discovered extra about early-onset Alzheimer’s, I noticed that many medical trials didn’t adequately symbolize the range of individuals affected by Alzheimer’s, together with youthful sufferers in addition to girls and ethnic minorities.
The NAPA Reauthorization Act and the Alzheimer’s Accountability and Funding Act (AAIA) are vital steps in advocating for various Alzheimer’s affected person populations in each care and analysis. The NAPA Reauthorization Act addresses disparities amongst underrepresented populations and AAIA ensures funding for analysis aimed toward successfully treating Alzheimer’s.
I’m grateful to Rep. Ro Khanna for co-sponsoring these essential payments. It’s important that we proceed to advocate for people like Dave, underrepresented of their circumstances, and assist inclusive Alzheimer’s analysis.
Namrata Vedagarbha
Fremont
State ought to sue itself
for its failed insurance policies
Re: “State sues oil giants over shifts in local weather” (Web page A1, Sept. 17).
We’re all alarmed by local weather change and see it as a name to motion now. Suing oil firms and claiming we have been deceived is a minimum of disingenuous and at its worst denies any private duty as shoppers of fossil fuels and the federal government’s function in encouraging their use by creating automobile-oriented transportation and land use patterns after which lavishly taxing them.
Large Oil, as Gov. Gavin Newsom calls it, has at all times been Large Authorities’s favourite money cow. Now, Lawyer Common Rob Bonta at Newsom’s path would have us consider that for many years we as shoppers, authorities as regulators, environmentalists as watchdogs, and scientists and business as producers of petroleum byproducts all collectively went about our method with cheerful and callous indifference to fossil fuels impact on the surroundings due to Large Oil’s deception is ludicrous.
California ought to be suing itself.
Bruce Rank
Discovery Bay
U.S. ought to put worth
controls on gasoline
Is it not time for worth controls on gasoline in america?
