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Colleges’ shopping for energy
might pressure change
Re: “Dying Chromebooks crowd e-waste bins” (Web page A1, July 24).
Fascinating to be taught that Google Chromebooks have a “baked-in demise date” of three to 6 years. Would we settle for that with some other client product, like a automotive, or a stereo? We might not.
This raises the query: Is “client” one other phrase for “powerless”? When “deliberate obsolescence” goes from being a humiliation to deliberate company planning, then we had higher change our perspective. As an alternative of the college districts talked about in your article saying, “Gee whiz, that is horrible and a horrible waste” why don’t they (collectively) inform Google: “We’re not going to just accept this. Both you reverse the demise date and open the code to permit us to proceed working the machines the place attainable, or we won’t purchase anymore from you.”
If college districts did this, what do you assume would occur?
Philip Rapier
Oakland
Reopen Union Metropolis
Library on Mondays
Alameda County Public Library this week began closing the Union Metropolis Library on Mondays, with out enter from the neighborhood and for the primary time ever within the library’s historical past.
Whereas asserting this closure, the county library system stated that libraries strengthen communities and remodel lives each day. Closure of the library is like placing a dagger within the coronary heart of the local people. This library may be very near Logan Excessive Faculty with over 4,000 youngsters. They rely on this library after college to do their homework within the afternoon. There are a lot of alternatives for our youngsters to go off monitor and damage their lives. This is without doubt one of the only a few that can preserve them away from that path.
They library system reviews to the Board of Supervisors; do they know what is occurring? Please, reopen the library on Mondays.
Subru Bhat
Union Metropolis
No specifics in critique
of homeless packages
Re: “Democrats preserve repeating the identical errors” (Web page A6, July 18).
A latest column by state Sen. Steve Glazer claimed that spending cash on homelessness has not been profitable. Per Glazer, “We’ve spent billions of {dollars} on the identical issues, with little or no to indicate for it.” However he provides no specifics.
Glazer blames remedy for these on the streets being blocked by “civil rights teams,” when it has been the courts which have principally made these choices. He additionally throws in “our woeful efficiency on homelessness” and “a cautionary story of failed guarantees” with none element.
That is all pink meat for many who actually don’t need to help funding by the federal government to scale back homelessness in our state. However Democrats must be extra optimistic and hopeful that options could be discovered.
Particulars about packages which have labored are on the market in case you search for them.
George Fulmore
Emeryville
Goal reparations,
although they’re unlikely
I imagine that relations of slaves ought to get reparations. Not all Black folks must be eligible although.
