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Sunol faculty board
voted appropriately on flag

Referring to the articles on the vote of Sunol faculty board members written on Sept. 14 (“Chaos in Sunol after flag ban,” Web page A1) and Sept. 15 (“Guaging recall amid Pleasure flag ban vote,” Web page B1), LGBTQ is a gaggle of people that need to be acknowledged and accepted for who they’re. No downside with that.

Nevertheless flying a flag designating their choice has no place on public property as it’s a particular curiosity group, not a national- or state-affiliated image.

Christians or another ethnic group aren’t allowed to fly their flag or put their symbols up. Why such outrage over one particular group of individuals?

Sure, we’re all individuals who need to be accepted. All of us can’t fly particular flags on faculty property to be acknowledged. The varsity board members of the Sunol faculty district voted appropriately.

Joyce Dolan
Livermore

Alameda library will
protect group’s previous

I need to thank the Alameda Free Library — particularly Alameda Collections Librarian Beth Sibley — for accepting Out On The Island’s information and e-newsletter assortment into its organizations vertical file.

Out On The Island, aka OOTI, was Alameda’s most outstanding LGBTQ political group from 1994 by way of the early 2000s. OOTI fashioned in response to the political firestorm that erupted when Alameda’s then-mayor issued a Homosexual Pleasure Proclamation recognizing June as Homosexual Pleasure Month.

Since then, Alameda has issued many Homosexual Pleasure Proclamations, thanks largely to OOTI’s efforts.

Whereas not a lot stays of the group’s basic information, practically all of its newsletters, the Out On The Island Breeze, stay, and they’re attention-grabbing.

Many thanks are owed to so many great folks and organizations who participated in OOTI’s journey, and now I’m so proud and completely satisfied to depend the Alameda Free Library first amongst them.

Sherry Stoll
Alameda

Organized labor
holds an excessive amount of sway

Re: “Organized labor massive winner on payments that await Newsom’s OK” (Web page A1, Sept. 16).

Within the Sept. 16 paper, David Huerta, president of SEIU in California, said, “The cornerstone of our democracy is majority rule.”

I had simply learn concerning the variety of union-sponsored payments our state Legislature has handed to the governor for signature. In 2022, 16.1% of California employees and 11.3% nationally are lined by bargaining items. Majority rule? Who’s he kidding?

With over 80% of wage earners non-union, I get so sick and uninterested in politicians speaking about creating good, union-paying jobs. Are they saying that 80+% of us have unhealthy jobs? Seems like the bulk isn’t ruling.

Small enterprise and franchise house owners don’t want Sacramento’s union buddies setting wages and advantages for them. A state with critical price range points can’t pay voluntarily unemployed folks unemployment advantages.  Unions make good managers, simply ask BART.

Peter Coenen
Lafayette

Invoice would fund gun
violence measures

Re: “Why governor ought to signal gun violence prevention invoice” (Web page A6, Sept. 14).

As a mom and grandmother, I used to be shocked to be taught that since 2020, the primary reason for demise of American kids is firearms. That is merely unacceptable. Little one deaths by firearms are preventable.

California has efficient violence intervention and prevention applications which have a historical past of saving lives in communities hardest hit by gun violence. Nevertheless, funding for these applications has been sporadic, insufficient and unreliable.

AB 28 will present dependable annual funding for varsity psychological well being providers, protected removing of unlawful firearms, assets for victims of gun violence, training for firearm house owners, counseling and help for victims, analysis to stop firearm suicide and save all taxpayers the large prices of gun violence.

AB 28 has handed the state Meeting and Senate. We await gun security champion Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signature to enact this highly effective treatment. It would maintain weapons out of the flawed fingers and save the lives of our youngsters.

Laurie Herbert
Pleasanton

McCarthy wants to guide
manner out of price range mess

Home Speaker Kevin McCarty has created a dilemma for himself on the price range decision.

Whereas he gave extremist radicals the whole lot they requested for, they nonetheless refuse to control responsibly. Though he and the president made an settlement to keep away from U.S. debt default, the extremists wished him to dishonor the cope with new spending cuts, and he complied.