Homeless camp banis merciless, misguided
Re: “Homeless camp ban is among state’s toughest” (Web page B1, Feb. 13).
The Fremont Metropolis Council’s current insurance policies and actions are nothing wanting merciless. Primarily town is criminalizing homelessness and poverty.
What’s felony is permitting individuals to sleep on sidewalks, in vacant heaps and in parks within the wealthiest nation on the earth. Fixing the homeless drawback requires complicated options that embrace houses and jobs, and a few individuals want rehabilitation and counseling. However principally, individuals want compassion and help.
Oversimplified options solely make issues worse whereas ignoring fixing homelessness and poverty issues.
Joe NavarroHayward
Collaboration a muston insurance coverage points
As wildfires and different pure disasters develop into extra frequent and extreme, the monetary burden on owners continues to escalate with exorbitant insurance coverage premiums.
A number of components contribute to this predicament:
Regulatory challenges: The federal government in Sacramento has struggled to implement efficient insurance policies that stability shopper safety with the monetary realities confronted by insurance coverage corporations.
Legislative priorities: Legislators are distracted by vote financial institution points, leaving the insurance coverage market reforms inadequately addressed.
Insurance coverage trade dynamics: Pushed by revenue motives, they’ve more and more withdrawn from high-risk areas or raised premiums to unsustainable ranges.
This confluence of regulatory inefficacy, legislative oversight and trade practices has left California owners in a precarious place. The FAIR Plan, supposed as a final resort for these unable to safe conventional insurance coverage, is now overwhelmed and inadequate to satisfy the rising demand.
It’s crucial for stakeholders to collaborate on complete options that guarantee each the provision and affordability of householders insurance coverage.
Sanjay KalraFremont
Trump’s autocracymust be stopped
Donald Trump is making a one-man present; autocracy. However, then he informed us he was going to be a dictator.
He’s eliminating too many authorities businesses and firing profession staff, individuals who might have longevity of their positions. There isn’t a method the Trump administration might have checked out every worker to find out who must be let go in simply three weeks. Trump must be held accountable.
Evidently, guardrails have been eradicated, and he’s doing his ordinary of pushing all boundaries. He must be stopped, now.
Gae MoraConcord
Media ought to boycottdictatorial Trump
Re: “AP barred from Oval Office over Gulf name” (Web page A2, Feb. 12).
It’s time for the media to chew the bullet and refuse to cowl Donald Trump. When he reveals up within the Oval Workplace and there aren’t any cameras, mics or floodlights, he’ll understand that the press protection he has at all times courted was the “wind beneath his wings.” No reporters within the press room day-after-day with pens poised over pads will give Karoline Leavitt pause, as properly.
Will probably be exhausting for just a few days, undoubtedly, nevertheless it received’t be lengthy earlier than Trump feels the dearth of consideration making it exhausting to breathe. I’m fairly certain that a big portion of the populace will discover it refreshing to not should see his image in every single place or hearken to his inane rants. The embargo also needs to cowl Elon Musk for all the identical causes.
N. L. MorrisWalnut Creek
Trump, Protection keepingcampaign guarantees
I used to be so happy to learn how the Trump administration is following via on guarantees made throughout the marketing campaign. Our new, clear-sighted Secretary of Protection has been rooting out the misguided “woke” insurance policies of the earlier administration. His newest goal was one in all our largest navy establishments within the nation, Fort Liberty in North Carolina.
It had been generally known as Fort Bragg for a few years till Congress took exception to the naming of navy establishments after Accomplice slave-owning officers. Congress handed a legislation making it unlawful to call a fort after a slave-owning Accomplice officer. So President Donald Trump’s new head of the Protection Division someway managed to discover a soldier who served in World Conflict II named Non-public Roland Bragg and so Fort Liberty’s identify was modified to honor him. What a fortuitous coincidence.
Joseph SklarCastro Valley
