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Don’t let trash haulers
set their very own phrases
One wonders why cities within the Bay Space enable the trash haulers to dictate what they’ll or gained’t recycle.
Plainly the Affiliation of Bay Space Governments, ABAG, ought to have sufficient energy to dictate phrases to all the realm haulers relatively than the opposite manner round. If that have been carried out all plastics could be diverted from landfills, and the haulers could be required to work collectively to arrange recycling for every type of plastic.
Karen Onken
Fremont
Photo voltaic stays below
menace by CPUC plan
House photo voltaic is once more at grave threat of being strangled by the California Public Utilities Fee. The brand new NEM3 proposal, solely barely much less terrible than the final one, will wipe out most as an alternative of all new rooftop photo voltaic installations.
PG&E’s “value shift” marketing campaign works to divide and conquer us, as they foyer the CPUC to stifle our photo voltaic to protect their monopoly. As an alternative, the CPUC ought to SOAR by committing to Photo voltaic On All Roofs, the place our cleanest, least expensive, most secure, most dependable and finest vitality supply belongs.
Gov. Newsom appointed 5 of the six CPUC commissioners together with President Alice Reynolds, who was assigned the NEM3 proposal. Whether or not they maximize our rooftop photo voltaic or decimate it once we most want it should quickly grow to be Newsom’s good, or benighted, legacy.
Doug McKenzie
Berkeley
Arduous selections may
save BART, transit
I’ve ridden BART because it opened within the late ’60s and have seen it go downhill. It’s costly, soiled, problematic and currently, harmful. Many might have stopped commuting, however that’s not the primary reason for the ridership loss. Fixing it requires powerful selections, however it should clear up the issue.
I’ve studied transit elsewhere and seen that you need to change what doesn’t work.
• Privatize it. The unions are unaccountable to the general public and wish an excessive amount of. The prepare doesn’t really want drivers, and the police don’t want automobiles. Prices will come down whether it is run as a enterprise. Automate.
• Clear up the issues. Deal with ridding the automobiles of bums and creeps. This may take authorized modifications, however crime is a significant factor in driving folks away.
• Cease elevating the speed on parking. We will’t all the time stroll to a station, and bus service is erratic.
Denise Kalm
Walnut Creek
The one factor that stays
the identical is change
Mike Heller laments in his Nov. 16 letter that occasions have modified, and he remembers the nice outdated days. His outdated days sound exceptionally good, although I think that he views them by way of rose-colored glasses.
I think that Mike didn’t develop up as an African American in a poorer neighborhood as a result of the apply of redlining had prevented his household from dwelling wherever else.
I think that Mike didn’t develop up homosexual and having to cover that for concern of being ostracized or crushed up.
I think that Mike didn’t develop up a girl, attempting to compete in a person’s world and getting decrease pay and fewer probability of development irrespective of how proficient she was.
The outdated days are gone. They have been good outdated days for some, and never for others. It has all the time been this fashion. The one factor that stays the identical is that all the things modifications.
Kevin Allen
Brentwood
Two payments may
assist thousands and thousands
Congress nonetheless has the chance to make important strides within the struggle towards poverty this yr. First is by increasing the Baby Tax Credit score (CTC). In 2021, the CTC helped reduce baby poverty by 46%. Congress let it expire and baby poverty is once more on the rise. Reinstating the CTC with
