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DA assembly leaves
questions unasked
Re: “Folks query leaders over muggings and carjackings” (Web page B1, July 29).
We attended the neighborhood assembly on July 27 internet hosting DA Pamela Value on the Montclair Presbyterian Church. The road of individuals making an attempt to enter snaked across the block and many individuals had been unable to enter the ability.
We had been requested to submit inquiries to Value upfront and I did so. Nevertheless, the assembly devolved right into a shouting match with aggrieved residents airing their points with violent crime in Oakland. I left in frustration after greater than 1 1/2 hours with the moderator asking no questions, correctly submitted, of Value difficult her on her efficiency in workplace: as an illustration, her refusal to switch juvenile killers to grownup court docket and her refusal to cost legislatively mandated enhancements.
After I left in frustration nobody had challenged her on her workplace’s comfortable stance on unlawful weapons fees, decreasing felony fees to misdemeanor tendencies with little time served, and so forth.
Charles Jameson
Oakland
Oakland ought to deputize
ex-corrections officers
Contemplating the large improve in legal exercise in Oakland, it appears it will have been cheap that the town authorities would have utilized their correctional officers within the capability of deputized officers to help on the streets together with the cops.
On the jail stage, they functioned as peace officers underneath the route of police sergeants, however their service was terminated in 2005.
They had been, considerably, forged to the wind out of their classification.
Stanley Flemmings
Oakland
For transparency’s sake,
move two local weather payments
The California Legislature will vote on two crucial payments.
SB 253, the Local weather Company Information Accountability Act, requires corporations with a minimal of $1 billion in revenues to report greenhouse gasoline emissions they’re answerable for, together with emissions from the usage of their merchandise as soon as bought. SB 261, Greenhouse Gases: Local weather-Associated Monetary Threat, requires corporations with $500 million or extra in revenues to organize an annual monetary report explaining the implications they face by taking measures to scale back local weather danger. This can inform traders if they need to put money into these corporations.
Each payments present for civil penalties for noncompliance or inaccurate experiences. Each measures should move. In tandem, they are going to present important information to traders as the worldwide economic system adapts — because it should — to the realities of worldwide warming and transitions away from fossil fuels. Please name your state legislators in late August and demand that they move each SB 253 and SB 261.
Marcia Liberson
Walnut Creek
Republicans fiddle
whereas planet cooks
Re: “July takes its toll on scorched Earth” (Web page 1A, July 28).
The GOP has misplaced contact with actuality. “Rome” is burning, and the MAGA Republicans ignore local weather change whereas taking part in their fiddles. Even former Vice President Mike Pence is working on a platform to get rid of the Environmental Safety Company and any Joe Biden incentives to combat local weather change.
Our planet has simply suffered the most well liked July in historical past. Let’s let that sink in — in historical past. The oceans are like scorching tubs, and all of the Republicans wish to do is stick it to the liberals. Banning books, gays and abortions won’t finish international warming.
The time for political video games has come to an finish. We now have just one election left to get it proper earlier than greenhouse gases make our planet insufferable.
Your mission: please vote for Democrats if you wish to save our world from what many think about unattainable. This planet will self-destruct if you happen to disregard this message.
Sandy White
Fremont
A’s Vegas plan
doesn’t look too sensible
Right here’s how actually dumb the A’s Vegas transfer is:
• The stadium will solely have a capability of 30,000, presumably 33,000, requiring sellouts each sport to make a revenue.
• The common temperature in Las Vegas is above 100 levels in the summertime, so individuals may not even exit of their homes to attend day video games in July and August.
Oh and, by the best way, the present web site seems to be too small for including a retractable roof, so attendees should endure the burning warmth throughout video games as nicely. No true main league participant will play video games underneath these circumstances.
As they are saying, “Silly is as silly does.”
Gene St. Onge
Oakland
