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Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor.Climate change authorsmust pick up the tabRe: “California’s former insurance commissioner sees grim future, more wildfires” (April 7).
Your article highlights a growing crisis: disappearing insurance options, soaring premiums, and a future where many Californians may be unable to insure their homes at all.We’re paying for preventable disasters we didn’t cause. Our homes are burning, and floods and drought are crushing small businesses, while insurers pull out and polluters — who knowingly fueled this crisis — rake in record profits.
To make matters worse, the federal government now threatens to withhold disaster funds.The climate emergency is a fossil fuel problem, yet it is families, not polluters, who are stuck with the bill.That’s why I join thousands calling on the legislature to pass the Polluters Pay Climate Superfund Act (SB 684/AB 1243), introduced by state Sen.
Caroline Menjivar and Assemblymember Dawn Addis.Make polluters pay. Our future depends on it.
Kathryn GraceSan RamonVote yes on Measure T,educational excellenceAs the presidents of school boards serving Lafayette, Moraga, Orinda, and Walnut Creek, we collectively urge you to vote yes on Measure T for high schools in the Acalanes Union High School District.Acalanes, Campolindo, Las Lomas and Miramonte high schools are among the best in the state and the nation.Local parcel tax funding has not increased in 15 years and supports excellent teachers, manageable class sizes, advanced placement classes and academic counselors.
Our top high schools protect our property values, help our students succeed and enhance our quality of life. Unless we vote yes on T, a reduction of teachers and programming will occur, having a significant negative impact on our students and community.Every penny from Measure T stays local to benefit our high schools only and cannot be taken away by the state.
Join us in voting yes on Measure T by mail by May 6.Jennifer Chen, Acalanes school districtEdda Collins Coleman, Orinda school districtRob Sturm, Lafayette school districtLetter turns realityof Trump on its headRe: “Trump’s detractors are being bad Americans” (Page A6, April 9).Christopher Andrus contends Democrats do not “accept the legitimacy of a democratically elected president.
”Related ArticlesLetters: Cortese’s bill is a start on equalizing school fundingLetters: Despite guardrails, Acalanes’ Measure T is a blank checkLetters: San Jose’s threats are no help to the homelessLetters: Apple’s biggest problem is groveling for TrumpLetters: American citizens deserve better than Elon MuskHe’s wrong. We accepted the result of this last election, whereas Donald Trump and MAGA clearly did not on Jan. 6, 2021 — nor even today.
As for “anti-Trump rallies,” we defend free speech rights at those rallies because Trump would deny us them. Rallies are happening because Trump is not “doing what [we] elected him to do,” as Andrus asserts. Quite the opposite.
No one voted for Trump to alienate our allies and coddle our enemies. He was elected to lower grocery prices, not inflate them; to make government efficient, not eviscerate it; to protect our borders, not create a police state.Trump only does what’s best for himself and Vladimir Putin, not “what’s best for our nation.
”Not accepting these truths is “not acting like a good American.”Edward ChaineyRichmondMeasure T is good forschools, communitiesAs a member of the Independent Citizens’ Oversight Committee for Acalanes high school district parcel taxes, I have seen firsthand how the existing static parcel taxes (approved by voters 15 years ago) have been unable to keep pace with the rising costs of providing a top-level education. If Measure T does not pass, the district will need to cut advanced academic programs, increase class sizes or make other changes that would negatively affect our children’s education.
Given that need, and the desire to maintain our highly ranked schools (top 4% nationally in AP program strength), I will be supporting Measure T. I encourage my fellow citizens to do the same.Measure T includes the same important accountability, transparency and oversight requirements as Measures G and A.
The Citizens’ Oversight Committee will monitor and ensure the funding goes directly toward academics.Vote yes on Measure T by May 6.Karl RichtenburgOrinda.
