DA ought to have onestandard of justice
Re: “Judge closes case for former officer” (Web page A1, Dec. 13).
The appointed Alameda County District Legal professional, Ursula Jones Dickson, was the endorsed candidate of the Pamela Value recall committee, which promised to finish the alleged coddling of criminals. Certainly, Jones Dickson guarantees justice by prosecuting extra youngsters as adults and sending them to grownup prisons.
Now, although, she has lastly discovered a decide to drop manslaughter costs towards the killer of Steven Taylor, former San Leandro cop Jason Fletcher. This regardless of then-District Legal professional Nancy O’Malley’s Possible Trigger Declaration that when he was shot after being tased twice, “Mr. Taylor was struggling to remain standing as he pointed the bat at the ground …” and “posed no threat of imminent deadly force or serious bodily injury to defendant Fletcher or anyone else.” Jones Dickson considers dropping the fees justice.
I would really like a district lawyer who has just one normal of justice.
Bob BrittonCastro Valley
Coal terminal promisesto worsen air pollution
Re: “Oakland surrenders in ‘coal war’ battle” (Web page A1, Dec. 11).
Anybody who really cares about future generations and acknowledges the impacts of local weather change and the well being dangers of coal-related particulate air pollution can’t of their proper thoughts need to regionally deal with, ship and in the end facilitate the burning of a number of million tons of coal yearly.
If Oakland Bulk & Outsized Terminal LLC and its companions intend to develop their export terminal for coal, then they need to construct the specialised, enclosed, dome-shaped terminal they’d stated they might construct to handle coal mud well being considerations — mud that might hurt port staff and close by residents.
The perfect consequence can be constructing a bulk terminal to export a whole lot of commodities, excluding coal. If there’s nonetheless an choice to cease coal as an export commodity right here by gathering extra environmental well being info, then that pathway ought to be pursued.
Dan KalbOakland
Household historical past offerstips for good well being
As your loved ones gathers for the vacations, ask about your loved ones’s well being historical past. Understanding your loved ones’s well being historical past might be key to an extended, more healthy life. And it might assist your well being care supplier determine traits that will put you in danger for sure well being circumstances or ailments.
Speak to rapid relations. Embrace three generations. Grandparents, mother and father, siblings, aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews might all have useful info. Collect details about main medical circumstances, age of onset, and for deceased family members, causes of loss of life. You probably have a household historical past of a situation, it’s necessary to know this. When you can’t change your genetic make-up, there could also be steps you possibly can take now that might enable you to keep wholesome.
Felicia ZiomekLivermore
Root fraud and wasteout of ACA program
Our Congress desires well being take care of all People. All of us need well being take care of all People. However let’s do it the correct manner. The present Obamacare program isn’t sustainable. Replete with the fraud, waste and corruption that has been uncovered — lastly — it’s apparent that it’s costing excess of it ought to. Extending the prevailing subsidies with out enhancing this system and its controls is solely throwing good cash after dangerous.
Let’s get management of the present program, drive out the fraud, waste and corruption, so we will see what the prevailing program would price if managed correctly. Then we will decide how a lot we will afford to spend and design a well-controlled program that meets our wants. Extending the present payouts with out controlling whether or not the cash is spent appropriately, though simpler, is solely irresponsible.
John GriggsDanville
China, Russia watchingSouth America gambit
Why has Secretary of Protection Pete Hegseth ordered our largest, most deadly plane service with supporting destroyers and guided missile ships to sail close to Venezuela? Donald Trump says it’s to cease drug traffickers, but, on the identical time, he launched from jail the Honduran ex-president, who was convicted of huge cocaine trafficking into our nation.
The plane service was moved from the japanese Mediterranean, close to the Ukraine battle. Trump appears to be abandoning our allies in Europe, giving Russia the chance to broaden its war-stolen territory in Ukraine, whereas on the identical time, he’s choosing a combat in our hemisphere with fishermen in small boats.
Is the “emperor” loopy? Are his true loyalties towards aggressive dictators like Vladimir Putin? People have to know.
China is watching us intently and assessing whether or not we’d defend Taiwan, Japan and Korea in the event that they pulled a “Putin” within the western Pacific.
Bruce JoffePiedmont
