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Bike trails are good
for all park customers

Re: “Kudos to EBRPD for testing new path concepts” (Web page A6, Might 16).

I loved studying the opinions, each professional and con, relating to the park’s building of bike-specific trails in Briones East Bay Regional Park.

The anti-biking teams complain of person battle on the paths, a concern that has been proven to be extra theoretical than actual. One solution to decrease battle is by creating well-designed authorized bike trails. I’m assured that the EBRPD will assemble such trails in a protected and ecologically delicate method, enhancing the park expertise for all customers.

Michael Udkow
Oakland

State is on improper
monitor on large points

Re: “High quality-of-life points inflicting California flight” (Web page A12, Might 14).

I want to thank the creator, Invoice Packwood, for a really correct description of the explanations for leaving California.

This stunning state is seeing a horrible time, and I don’t actually see modifications for the higher. The leaders will not be results-oriented. Our tax cash is thrown at numerous initiatives with no optimistic end result. The homeless numbers are rising. The roads actually don’t appear to be mounted even with SB1. Extra prisons are closed to assist with the funds, however the place are the inmates going? I really feel as a lifelong resident that the criminals have extra rights than law-abiding residents.

The issue with getting older on this state is that I bear in mind once we had the perfect colleges, legal guidelines have been obeyed and people who didn’t obey them felt the implications. I’ve entered the bizarro world.

Leona Lindberg
Richmond

In actuality, Biden is
doing a terrific job

Regardless of the right-wing media declaring that President Joe Biden is “destroying the nation,” the fact is sort of completely different.

With the Infrastructure Act, the Inflation Discount Act, the CHIPS and Science Act, and the PACT Act, Biden has achieved extra in two years for the center class, seniors, veterans and the working poor than something Donald Trump did in his 4 years. Biden’s applications are additionally paid for with a 15% minimal tax on firms making over a billion {dollars} in earnings every year.

Now, the Republicans are holding the debt ceiling hostage and demanding unthinkable cuts to those applications. Why is it that when the federal government offers cash breaks to the large firms, who make billions, it’s referred to as subsidies, however when the federal government offers cash breaks to the center class and the working poor, it’s referred to as socialism?

Frank Grygus
San Ramon

U.S. is a rustic
struggling a disaster

I’m writing to tell you of a humanitarian disaster.

In my nation, the place the extremists have taken over, most individuals are thought of nugatory. They don’t earn dwelling wages, and can’t afford meals or well being care. Docs are threatened with imprisonment if they supply sure varieties of medical care for girls. Little one labor is extra prevalent. Youngsters as younger as 12 are working with harmful chemical substances in factories. Youngsters as younger as 10, who solely just lately found out how one can safely cross streets, can carry weapons. Some persons are crushed up or killed as a result of they don’t gown in a approach the extremists deem applicable. Black persons are killed by the police for minor infractions. In poor areas, the air and water are poisonous, but the extremists refuse to take measures to take away the toxins.

What backward nation do I stay in? The US of America.

Belinda Neuman
Nice Hill

Detentions crucial for
critical psychological sickness

Re: “Psychiatric detentions gained’t assist psychological well being” (Web page A7, Might 4).

Rob Wipond’s writing towards CARE Courtroom is dangerously flawed.