Bike-path gambitdoesn’t improve security
Re: “Safety debate at crossroads” (Web page A1, Oct. 30).
In a current assembly held behind closed doorways, Contra Costa County and the town of Walnut Creek agreed to make use of over $6 million in funds from packages designed to advertise freeway security and enhancements to carve out a three-block-long bicycle path on Deal with Boulevard.
The affected space runs from North Predominant St. to Jones Highway, a stretch that at present handles over 40,000 autos a day. The proposed path duplicates the prevailing Canal Path, which is devoted to bikers and pedestrians, is positioned two blocks south of Deal with Boulevard and connects on to the Iron Horse Path for entry to the Nice Hill BART station.
The town acknowledged each the excessive threat to bikers utilizing the proposed paths and the adverse impacts on site visitors on this extremely congested space. So, why is that this venture going ahead?
Larry McEwenWalnut Creek
Opposing investmentpolicy is out of step
Re: “Ethical investment policy approved” (Web page B1, Oct. 10).
The Jewish Group Relations Council (JCRC) got here out in opposition to an Alameda County Moral Funding Coverage on the Oct. 3 Board of Supervisors assembly. The supervisors handed the coverage however delayed implementation.
Nearly all of Jews current at that assembly had been mobilized by Jewish Voice for Peace and supported the coverage.
A September Washington Publish ballot discovered that almost all of U.S. Jews don’t help present Israeli insurance policies. The JCRC’s place of opposing a pro-human rights coverage isn’t a mainstream place, and it isn’t aligned with Jewish values.
The JCRC accused Israel’s critics of antisemitism and expressed concern about Jewish security. Associating Jews with the acts of a murderous regime makes Jews much less protected. Jews are safer in a world that works for all, together with Palestinians.
We urge the supervisors to implement the Moral Funding Coverage as quickly as doable.
Cynthia KaufmanOakland
California should go itsown means on well being care
Re: “Policyholders brace for price increases” (Web page A1, Nov. 22).
Staying in the USA isn’t useful to California. In 2022, we gave $83 billion to the federal authorities, which finally ends up getting redistributed to different states. The California Nationwide Occasion is the one occasion that acknowledges this and has common well being care (Cal-Care, or Medi-Cal for all) as a part of its platform.
Maya RamUnion Metropolis
Structure will haltthird time period for Trump
Re: “Don’t think Trump won’t try for third term” (Web page A6, Nov. 18).
A letter author opined that President Trump may search a 3rd time period as president by being vice chairman on a ticket headed by JD Vance, and, after Vance received the presidency, Vance may, by prearrangement, resign, and Trump would develop into president.
Nonetheless, the twelfth Modification of the Structure stipulates that one who’s constitutionally ineligible to be president can also be ineligible to be vice chairman, which might presumably stop Trump from turning into president beneath this subterfuge.
Trump may argue that the twenty second Modification of the Structure prohibits him solely from being “elected” — however not truly serving — as president for a 3rd time period. However the Supreme Courtroom would probably reject this subterfuge on grounds that it conflicts with the plain intent of the twenty second modification to forestall an individual from serving a 3rd time period as president by way of the electoral course of, as Franklin Roosevelt did within the Thirties.
Roderick WalstonOrinda
Don’t cancel comedian;simply transfer it
Re: “Don’t cancel comic for having an opinion” (Web page A8, Nov. 23).
I’m one of many individuals who have written to request that “Mallard Fillmore” be moved to the Opinion Web page, since it’s clearly political in nature. I’m not asking that or not it’s censored or faraway from the paper, simply that or not it’s acknowledged as political opinion.
Previously few days, “Mallard Fillmore” has implied that the media solely appears to be like for unhealthy issues about Donald Trump and twists the reality, that liberals are stealing our tax {dollars} to help their very own political occasion, and solely care about illness in an election yr, and the media is hypocritically deceptive us concerning the destruction of the White Home East Wing. In the meantime, “Pickles” taught Nelson to say I like you to his grandma, and “Luann” adopted a pet. Which of those isn’t like the opposite?
By the way, “Doonesbury” is providing more-than-20-year-old strips. That’s not a good steadiness.
Sampson Van ZandtWalnut Creek
