Homeless advocatesmust pool sources
Regardless of tireless efforts by mission-driven nonprofits, the homelessness disaster stays stubbornly persistent — largely as a result of we’re fixing in silos. Every group measures success utilizing its personal key efficiency indicators, with no systemwide lens.
This method isn’t about extra reporting — it’s about collective readability. After we see the entire system in actual time, we empower smarter selections, quicker motion and higher outcomes. To actually transfer the needle on homelessness, we should shift from remoted influence to shared perception.
Jagdish GirimajiLivermore
Demand on-sitevets for rodeos
Rodeo season, alas, is upon us, an exercise condemned for its inherent cruelty by almost each animal welfare group on Earth. Rodeo is generally hype, a macho train in domination. Each Cesar Chavez and Pope Francis have been vocal critics.
California boasts the nation’s most complete rodeo legislation, Penal Code 596.7, enacted in 2000, amended in 2007 to cowl the lots of of Mexican-style rodeos referred to as “charreadas.” The legislation forbids the usage of electrical prods within the holding chutes, and requires both an on-site or on-call veterinarian at each rodeo and charreada. The legislation needs to be amended, dropping the “on-call” vet possibility. Racetracks, horse reveals and endurance rides all require on-site vets — so ought to all rodeos.
State rodeo legislation additionally requires that harm experiences be submitted to the state Veterinary Medical Board. These experiences are public file, free for the asking.
Let your state reps hear from you.
Eric MillsOakland
Media portrays Israelisas innocent, proper
Re: “2 staff members of Israeli embassy killed in DC shooting” (Might 22):
The tragic killing of two Israeli embassy staff is instantly getting used falsely by these advocating for the Israeli battle in Gaza to show Israel proper and innocent.
It’s laborious to not discover that victims of this crime, just like the Israeli hostages, are portrayed in our media as full people we are able to establish with.
In contrast, the greater than 100 common Palestinians killed day by day by Israel (together with by hunger and illness), plus dozens who lose limbs, go by us as empty numbers.
But Israel makes use of each chance to reassert its absolute rightness regardless of the carpet-bombing and hunger of civilians, which they indicate has one way or the other been fabricated by the world media.
Israel’s authorities has change into a horrific historic shame to the Jewish individuals worldwide, who ought to completely separate from it. It has no extra allegiance to reality than Donald Trump does.
Steve KoppmanOakland
Huge Oil isn’t solely partyresponsible for local weather
Re: “We must revive bills to make polluters pay” (Web page A6, Might 20).
Susan Harris’ letter eager to sue the oil firms is presumptuous and incorrect.
The oil firms have been supplying a vital service that everyone used. In the event you glided by her idea, you would need to sue everybody who used the merchandise to get to work and college and ship groceries and different necessities. Everybody who heated their home and water, too. CO2 wasn’t even referred to as a pollutant till 2009. In reality, it’s a vital fuel that crops want to provide oxygen for us to breathe.
The one ones that will make out are the legal professionals.
Randy DorePleasanton
Trump’s ‘Big Bill’ seeksto neuter the courts
Essentially the most harmful a part of Trump’s Huge Ugly Invoice is a hidden provision that may stop courts from holding Trump or any of his minions in contempt. Thus, there’ll not be any protection of our beloved Structure or its Invoice of Rights. There’ll not be any restraint on Trump or Mission 2025 and MAGA zealots. Trump will change into a dictator in all however identify. Fascism will reign in America.
When this heinous invoice involves a vote within the Senate, I urge all Democratic representatives and senators to exit their chambers, collect on the steps outdoors the Capitol sporting black armbands, stand in silence as a lone trumpet intones faucets, and to thus publicly mourn the top of democracy in america. “Government of the people, by the people, and for the people” may have perished in America — not with a bang, however a whimper.
David EllisonBerkeley
Trump has earnedanimosity aimed toward him
Re: “Hatred of Trump is unhealthy for U.S.” (Web page A6, Might 21).
This isn’t the primary time I’ve learn a Donald Trump supporter decrying hatred of him. The hatred is actual. It’s justified.
Trump is doing his greatest to destroy our nation together with his assaults on the judiciary, the press and the colleges, which aren’t veiled threats however actual. The rule of legislation is severely threatened by a mindless narcissist who tried a coup and is now aiming for authoritarian rule.
He’s nothing like President Ronald Reagan. Reagan had a way of decency and an unquestioned allegiance to the Structure. Trump is an unbalanced grifter with out the barest sense of decency.
By the way in which, the place was the outrage over the hatred for Joe Biden when he was president? “Let’s go, Brandon” nonetheless rings in my ears. Hatred for Trump is an unlucky byproduct of his personal outrageous actions.
Stephen GutierrezCastro Valley
