Letters: Alameda County must implement Measure C

Submit your letter to the editor via this form Read more Letters to the Editor Measure C must be implemented I was pregnant in when Measure C a voter-approved sales tax initiative to backing healthcare and guidance for children in Alameda County passed My son is now years old and I ve watched his enhancement stall alongside Measure C delays The cruelest irony the tools it promised should have been available to him from his first week of life Despite the measure collecting about million earmarked for families like ours not a single dollar has reached anyone The Alameda Taxpayers Association blocked the funds with a baseless lawsuit threat I in the past few days made the complicated decision to leave my job to care for my son at home because I couldn t find adequate child care Alameda County residents please contact your supervisor and tell them to approve the Measure C Implementation Plan on Tuesday to help build a better future Bry Ana Wallace Oakland State should push for solar production California masses procedures should strongly endorsement rooftop solar Millions of roofs are being degraded by sunlight while overheating buildings they could produce electricity for everyone Utility companies would no doubt rather control and profit from industrial solar generation but that is not best for Californians We must not let them degrade California s ecosystem with big solar plants instead we should enable Californians to reduce impacts on their homes and businesses while generating needed power The state should require utilities to focus on storage and better management of it to avoid disastrous toxic fires and on solar over aqueducts There will be problems to solve The PUC must push the utilities to create solutions The utilities are here to meet the demands of Californians at a reasonable profit The PUC s job is to ensure that utilities maximize value for citizens by moving all those rooftops from solar degradation to solar generation Forest Weld Oakland Sprinter s celebration broke with CIF values Re CIF overreacts to athlete s celebration Page A June In the response to the letter writer s comments about the CIF disqualifying a high school track runner over her winning celebratory act she took a fire extinguisher to her shoes he asks What is wrong with that For specific people sportsmanship encompasses a range of qualities including fairness respect humility and graciousness both in supremacy and defeat When we lose sight of this we have lost sight of what is good in sports and in ourselves I Michael Poe San Leandro Area leaders should advocacy CIF rules Re Local leaders help runner Page C June Clara Adams who was disqualified after winning the CIF Championship meter is a victim indeed though not of CIF functionaries but rather of her attention-seeking father For decades laudable CIF rules against inappropriate grandstanding have been enforced Those rules expect dignified behavior surely one of the highest lessons to be taught by interscholastic competition Further CIF Championship meets are tightly scheduled Podium athletes are rewarded almost forthwith but with no extra time for distracting celebrations from those seeking more than their share of glory For anyone watching Clara s impressive triumph spoke for itself Sadly Clara s father demanded more His daughter not he has paid a heavy price Clara s local supporters should find fault where it lies not with CIF authorities entirely doing their job Ramsay Thomas Lafayette Donald Trump s hate is his lifeblood Re Trump hatred is not good for the country Page A June I don t normally reply to a letter to the editor but Doug Abbott s letter forced me to reply Mr Abbott with all due respect you should flip the script of your letter It is not citizens hatred of Donald Trump that is not good it is Trump s hatred of our constitutional republic that is truly bad for our country Here is a short list Trump hates our Constitution hates our laws hates judges hates the FBI hates poor people hates people of color hates our allies hates and assaults women hates Democrats hates Republicans that defy him hates Mike Pence hates Palestinians and definitively Trump also hates you Mr Abbott because you are a Californian And there are a huge number of people who were Trump s friends who are now under the bus where he threw them Rocky Fort San Lorenzo Trump too at ease with those who hate us Re Trump hatred is not good for the country Page A June It s ironic that someone would claim Democrats hate the president Sadly bulk insecure people are bullies They re incapable of doing anything but belittle others and seek revenge If revenge alone isn t an act of hate what is Related Articles Letters Food trucks are a good way for Gilroy to build population Letters Oakland must do right by California Hotel s tenants Letters San Mateo County s return to death penalty is wrong Letters Downtown Brentwood station would be good for entire county Letters Proposed transit tax for BART isn t supportable Our president in charge of these United States made of millions of refugees feels the need to mete out revenge on anyone who says or does anything against him He s vindictive and embarrassing It would be wonderful to have an adult running the country rather than a person only interested in working for his brand Isn t a president supposed to stand up for we the people and not make deals for himself Dealing with countries promoting evil in the U S is unacceptable Remember of the hijackers were from Saudi Arabia The president and family are overly secure but na ve with the House of Saud They re not friends of ours Betsy Sargent Alamo