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Richmond council good
at undoing, not doing

This week marks one yr for the reason that Richmond Metropolis Council pulled the plug on improvement at Level Molate, claiming that they’d saved town from chapter. Subsequently, they offered the 30% developable portion of Level Molate for $400 to Level Molate Futures, LLC, a Delaware restricted legal responsibility firm managed by the Guidiville Rancheria of California.

It’s no secret that the Metropolis Council majority needed to make all of Level Molate a park, though 70% of it has at all times been reserved for park use. They collaborated with state Sen. Nancy Skinner to acquire a $36 million state appropriation for “cleanup and acquisition.”

A yr later, nothing has occurred — no park, no Bay Path, no public entry, no plan, and the historic buildings of iconic Winehaven are actually falling aside. The Metropolis Council is awfully good at stopping tasks however has no clue how one can make one thing optimistic occur.

Tom Butt
President, Winehaven Belief
Former mayor, Richmond

Congress should test
corrupt excessive courtroom

The U.S. Supreme Courtroom has run amok, and it’s time to get it beneath management.

For the final yr, we have now witnessed scandal after scandal come out of the Supreme Courtroom. And within the final month alone we’ve seen a number of breaking information tales about Justice Clarence Thomas’ shady conduct: accepting luxurious holidays and lavish items price hundreds of thousands; having his mom’s dwelling purchased and renovated; his grandnephew’s non-public college tuition paid. And all of this by Republican megadonor Harlan Crow with not a single one disclosed.

Fortunately, this unhealthy conduct may be addressed. Congress has the flexibility — and duty — to behave as a test on the Supreme Courtroom and restore religion in our judicial system. It’s time they take step one and cross a code of ethics for the Supreme Courtroom.

Nobody is above accountability, and that features our justices on the Supreme Courtroom.

Vaughn Egge
Oakland

Israel has each proper
to defend itself

Re: “Spend Israel’s cash on constructing peace” (Web page A12, Might 14).

Israel is threatened by Hamas and its ilk in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Palestinian Authority within the West Financial institution, and, most dangerously, Iran.

In early Might 2023, a whole bunch of rockets launched from Gaza had been geared toward civilians in Israeli cities. Gazans urged youngsters to have fun the homicide of Israelis. Israel continues to have the temerity to defend itself, a proper accorded to each different nation on Earth however denied — by some — to Israel.

Israel is the one nation on earth that has nations and organizations dedicated to its destruction. The above-named actors do all they will to additional this finish, indoctrinating their folks that this can be a noble trigger. In the event that they ceased, Israel wouldn’t want navy help from america, nor would it not have to answer missiles/rockets and sniper assaults on civilian vehicles.

Fred Korr
Oakland

Amazon ought to finish
plastic packaging use

Because the pandemic is formally declared over, we have now had time to replicate on the “unprecedented occasions” that occurred and their impact on our communities. One of many largest environmental results comes from Amazon, which had a 29% enhance in plastic waste in the course of the pandemic.