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DA dropped the ball
on taking pictures fees

Re: “3 charged in deadly freeway taking pictures” (Web page A1, April 15).

Alameda County District Lawyer Pamela Value is not going to cost three males with enhancement clauses who’ve been charged with the homicide of Eliyanah Crisostomo, the 5-year-old caught in a crossfire on Interstate 880.

When booked for homicide by the CHP, they filed enhancement causes, which might probably lengthen their jail sentences. We all know Value is not going to cost enhancement or particular circumstances in instances. She has indicated she would weigh enhancements in a criminal offense that triggered “in depth” bodily damage. What might be extra in depth than dying?

Whether or not or not these longer sentences deter others from utilizing a firearm, there might be little question {that a} perpetrator who makes use of a firearm and is incarcerated for many years is not going to be injuring or killing different harmless victims throughout that incarceration.

Except she is recalled, she is going to serve a four-year time period.

Ninfa Wooden
Walnut Creek

Feinstein not
getting the job accomplished

Re: “Former Sen. Boxer on Feinstein: ‘You’ve bought to have the ability to do the job’” (Web page A1, April 15).

I believe it’s time for Sen. Dianne Feinstein to step down from the Senate.

She has missed greater than 60 votes this yr. If the votes might be accomplished remotely, it could be okay. However that apparently will not be attainable. It is vitally necessary for everybody to vote on all measures introduced.

The article says that she sees her job “as a calling,” however her two-month-and-counting absence doesn’t permit her to do her job. When the vote is even, that makes it so nothing will get accomplished.

Gae Mora
Harmony

Navy retirement pay
must be tax-free

Assemblyman James Ramos launched Meeting Invoice 46 within the 2023 California Legislature to exempt navy retirees and surviving spouses from California revenue tax of navy retirement pay. California is the one state within the nation that fails to offer any type of tax reduction regardless of having the biggest variety of assigned active-duty navy members and rating fourth in america within the variety of navy retirees.

AB 46 has vital assist no matter get together. Nevertheless it wants assist from all residents. The Appropriations Committee will overview this invoice round mid-April, and with out its approval, the invoice is not going to go to the Meeting for a vote. Please present your assist for this laws by sending an e-mail or letter of assist to Chairman Chris Holden and the Appropriations Committee.

Susan Stewart

Alameda

Flooded communities
ought to search IRA funds

Re: “Sen. Alex Padilla visits Pajaro River with native, federal officers” (April 13).

Thanks a lot for highlighting the affect of local weather change on our native communities. As somebody who was born and raised in Santa Cruz County, it’s been devastating seeing how wildfires, floods and big storms have ravaged my hometown.

I hope that together with masking the fact of the devastation, your writers additionally spotlight methods to make an affect. For instance, since Congress handed the Inflation Discount Act, this system has unlocked a virtually $370 billion price range allotted to a spread of applications that deal with the local weather disaster. One among these applications is known as the Greenhouse Gasoline Discount Fund, a $27 billion accelerator for financing tasks that may scale back greenhouse fuel emissions. Importantly, a proportion of the funds have to be used to learn deprived communities.

It’s the proper time to succeed in out to our elected officers to reap the benefits of this program.

Jennifer Williams
Oakland

Controlling weapons solely
solution to management shootings

Re: “Give attention to households quite than seizing weapons” (Web page A8, April 14).

I recognize Rob Ricioli’s proper to his opinion in his letter to the editor, however as a member of the family who has been a sufferer of a mass taking pictures, I disagree with him.

The shooter of seven individuals, who killed my nephew, had a mom and father; he was taught the worth of exhausting work as he was employed; and he had honesty, ethics and a few neighborliness. However he didn’t see the results of his actions when he took assault weapons and destroyed seven lives and all of the relations affected.

It’s weapons that kill individuals. If he didn’t have weapons that day, they might be alive at present.

Virginia Kamp
Berkeley

US is oil dependent
by trade alternative

Those that say that america had vitality independence beneath President Trump are incorrect. That was not the case. The US imports about 75 p.c of its crude oil from what’s a worldwide market of crude oil, and it exports about an identical quantity to different international locations.

There are literally thousands of crude oil tankers on this planet, a few of which maintain hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil. As such, the buying and selling of crude oil is a significant a part of globalization.

Sure, U.S. producers of oil may, theoretically, provide 100% of our crude oil wants, however they select to not. U.S. oil producers wish to promote their oil on the prevailing international costs to whoever needs it.

Varied causes make the mix of home and imported oil helpful to those that purchase it in america. This can all the time be the case.

George Fulmore
Emeryville