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PG&E should shoulder
value of undergrounding
Re: “PG&E payments may rise with burying of energy traces” (Web page A1, Aug. 22).
PG&E isn’t updating {the electrical} grid as an act of kindness. Its negligence has annihilated whole cities and killed over 100 individuals. PG&E bears the burden of correcting this.
Let’s have a look for a second at PG&E’s funds. They’ve been posting document earnings, with the corporate incomes greater than $400 million in earnings for the quarter ending in June. They’re additionally a legalized monopoly on a public utility, so it’s not like their shopper base will vanish.
PG&E have to be made to bear the complete monetary burden of undergrounding, and if unwilling to take action, ought to be taken over by the state. As for the traders and the hit they might take, the market has dangers. All the time be sure that your investments are with sincere firms.
Christopher Dooner
Sunnyvale
Remedy of feminine
prisoners unconscionable
Re: “Group recordsdata lawsuit in opposition to ladies’s jail” (Web page B1, Aug. 19).
The decades-long sexual abuse of the ladies inmates of the Dublin Jail is a complete indictment of the Bureau of Prisons.
Their failure to be absolutely conscious of this horrific scenario and to root out the each day offenders is against the law far worse than that of the inmates.
To position a lady who spoke out within the males’s solitary confinement and inform the boys there to have at her is against the law of utter cruelty.
There must be a cleanout of the offending workers and look-the-other-way administration.
It’s sufficient that ladies are paying their dues to society with out struggling this inhumane and degrading remedy.
Rosemary Everett
Campbell
Probe is true transfer
for Pink Poodle fiasco
Re: “Paper is overdoing Pink Poodle protection” (Web page A6, Aug. 16).
The Mercury Information and the mayor’s workplace are completely doing the suitable factor regarding the Pink Poodle protection. By placing the firefighters’ ft to the fireplace, solely the responsible ones will say, “Ouch.”
They, that means the responsible ones, have loads of day without work to go go to any strip golf equipment they need, with out utilizing our tax {dollars} to do it. And guess what? We’ll by no means even learn about it.
Too dangerous the investigation has taken so lengthy, and therein lies the issue. Sadly, conditions corresponding to this mirror poorly on the remainder of the crew which can be simply attempting to do a great job by doing the suitable factor.
Judith Scarioni
Sunnyvale
Historical past is at all times
evolving with time
Re: “Don’t tear down Western historical past” (Web page A8, Aug. 17).
Joseph Gumina desires to know why “the woke left” desires to vary the story we inform of our historical past. Our understanding of our historical past and our relationship to it’s at all times altering. We study new issues as we discover new sources — or sources we earlier selected to disregard. We study new issues about ourselves, too.
Statues are eliminated, names of forts and colleges and streets are modified after we notice these symbols may be painful to those that had been oppressed by the one they depict or had been named after. And as we study that others assisted with innovations, we’re positive they want their due credit score as effectively.
“Those that fail to study from historical past are doomed to repeat it”: However how can we study to keep away from errors we made as soon as, from a historical past that’s whitewashed to salve the consciences of just one group of individuals?
David Inexperienced
Milpitas
Help payments focusing on
threat of synthetic turf
A November 14, 2021, article listed vital causes introduced by the Sierra Membership for opposing synthetic turf — the toxicity of PFAS, the “endlessly chemical compounds” in synthetic turf, environmental air pollution, and the heat-trapping properties of plastic grass.
