San Ramon has chanceto set local weather course
San Ramon is at a essential juncture. On June 10, the San Ramon Metropolis Council will vote on the proposed Local weather Motion Plan (CAP) — a daring, science-based technique to cut back carbon emissions, enhance air high quality and construct resilience to local weather change.
It is a blueprint for a sustainable, wholesome and economically vibrant future. The CAP contains bettering public transportation, vitality effectivity, clear vitality and defending inexperienced areas.
We should present the council that residents help local weather motion. Public feedback matter. Encourage your neighbors, pals and native organizations to talk up.
Let’s work collectively to make sure San Ramon adopts a strong Local weather Motion Plan. The stakes are too excessive to remain silent — our future is dependent upon it.
Sue BockSan Ramon
Congress should rejectcuts to Medicaid
As a well being care supplier working with our most susceptible neighborhood members, these served by neighborhood well being facilities, I’m deeply involved about Congress’ dangerous efforts to chop billions from Medicaid, which threatens the well being of over 15 million Californians, together with kids, seniors, folks with disabilities and low-income households who depend on Medicaid for important, life-saving care.
I see firsthand the distinction Medicaid makes. It allows early intervention, continual illness administration, and preventive providers that scale back long-term prices and enhance high quality of life. With out satisfactory funding, sufferers shall be pressured to delay or forgo care, resulting in avoidable hospitalizations and a better pressure on emergency departments.
Chopping Medicaid is not going to lower your expenses, it would solely shift prices to different components of the system whereas placing lives in danger, which is why I urge all members of Congress to vehemently reject dangerous Medicaid cuts.
Sirina KeesaraOakland
Let’s clear up ourfood packaging
Every day, we study extra concerning the poisonous chemical substances getting used to supply all the pieces we use in our each day lives.
In the present day, 1000’s of meals merchandise on cabinets are stored in packaging containing endocrine-disrupting chemical substances, that are particularly harmful to younger kids. The state Safer Meals Packaging Act (AB 1148) would outlaw the usage of two of probably the most distinguished chemical substances in meals packaging, phthalates and bisphenols, each linked to most cancers and mind growth points.
I sincerely ask you to hitch me in supporting the prohibition of poisonous meals packaging by calling your state consultant right now and asking them to vote sure on AB 1148. I work at my school’s eating corridor, and it feels fallacious to promote meals to a whole lot of scholars every day, realizing it could possibly be contaminated with poisonous chemical substances.
Bera EskiyenenturkBerkeley
Lawless judges arenot final line of protection
Re: “Trump aims to topple the last line of defense” (Web page A13, Might 4).
If Erwin Chemerinsky believes that the final line of protection is permitting judges to smuggle defendants out the again door to keep away from arrest, I’m all for toppling it.
He claims it could have been outrageous if the Justice Division had tried to indict the Milwaukee County choose and that public security was under no circumstances served by handcuffing Hannah Dugan on the courthouse. I disagree. Public security is tremendously served when the Trump administration sends a chilling message to those that abuse their energy and authority to thwart the regulation. In reality, that was the entire level. Nicely carried out, President Trump.
Invoice McGregorBerkeley
U.S. should converse out onGaza earlier than it’s too late
Within the spring of 1982, I visited Israel for the primary time. On my first day there, some members of what was then a fringe group, the Kahanists, shot up the Dome of the Rock, considered one of Islam’s holiest shrines, whereas folks have been in prayer. Now this group’s ideology runs the Israeli authorities.
In October 2023, Israel introduced its hunger marketing campaign in opposition to Gaza. Since March 2025, no provides have entered there. On April 1, Israel bombed the humanitarian help group World Central Kitchen in Gaza. Greta Thunberg and others organized the Freedom Flotilla, a ship carrying provides for Gaza. On Might 1, their boat was attacked and disabled by drones. Israel claimed credit score for the assault. Amnesty Worldwide referred to as Israel’s hunger marketing campaign “a genocidal act” and a “war crime.”
Deborah AppleSan Francisco
Newsom shouldn’t touteconomy for the few
Re: “Fourth-largest economy? State is unaffordable.” (Web page A6, Might 9).
One would suppose that the governor of a state with an enormous economic system, with its residents unable to profit from that bounty, would need to keep away from stating that enormous economic system fairly than emphasizing it.
Daniel MautheLivermore
