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Submit your letter to the editor via this form<\/a>. Read more Letters to the Editor<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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State must stopwasting rainwater<\/h4>\n

Professor Andrew Fisher\u2019s article on increasing groundwater storage (“How California can save water from the atmospheric river<\/a>,” Page A9, Jan. 8) may be feasible in the Pajaro Valley but not in the Central Valley due to the hardpan<\/a> and salt buildup<\/a>\u00a0in the soils there.<\/p>\n

It would be far better to build the Sites Reservoir south of Sacramento to store winter rains from the Sacramento River. But despite voters approving Proposition 1 in 2014 to build more water storage, Sacramento politicians seem to prefer sending years of excess rainwater down the Sacramento River to the ocean.<\/p>\n

Ed Kahl<\/strong>Woodside<\/em><\/p>\n

Don’t reward migrantsfor breaking the law<\/h4>\n

If you don\u2019t own a car and steal one, the law will not let you keep the car. If you embezzle, even if you are needy, you must repay the money. Similarly, if you break immigration laws, you should not be provided with food, housing, medical care or travel. Our justice system is based on the idea that you cannot benefit from breaking the law.<\/p>\n

When people know that by crossing a border they can immediately improve their lives because of the foolish generosity of Americans, they will come in droves, as they have been. We need to stop giving away our wealth to lawbreakers; there is enough need here. Work on changing immigration laws, but don\u2019t open the border and welcome lawbreakers with our taxes.<\/p>\n

Denise Kalm<\/strong>Walnut Creek<\/em><\/p>\n

Letter ignorescritical COVID stats<\/h4>\n

Bob Wheeler would have us believe blue states with sustained lockdowns saved lives compared to red states that minimized lockdowns (“Plenty of reasons to vote for Democrats<\/a>,” Page A6 Jan. 3). As evidence, he correctly states COVID deaths were higher in Florida (3,919 per million<\/a>) than in California, (2,504 per million<\/a>).<\/p>\n

He conveniently ignores COVID deaths in New York, the poster child of lockdowns, which were almost the same as Florida \u2014 3,897 per million<\/a> according to the website Worldometer.<\/p>\n

He also needs to take into consideration that about 75% of COVID deaths occur in people 65 and older, and Florida has a much higher percentage of seniors<\/a>\u00a0than either California or New York.<\/p>\n

He also believes school closure learning loss is no big deal. In an affluent city like Walnut Creek with an abundance of resources, the learning gap in math and science can be closed. In Hayward, not so much.<\/p>\n

Martin Wilmington<\/strong>Hayward<\/em><\/p>\n

Paper should updatethe comics page<\/h4>\n

I am really tired of seeing political commentary on the comic pages: “Doonesbury,” which is outdated; “Mallard Fillmore,” which is out of touch; and “Dilbert,” which is just bad.<\/p>\n

If you quit publishing dead white guys (Charles Schulz \u2014 and I love “Peanuts,” don\u2019t get me wrong), please make room for new voices, especially women and people of color. The comics pages are still largely white, heterosexual, male, patriarchal standard fare. <\/p>\n

Please update your comics pages. (And I\u2019m sorry, \u201cCathy\u201d doesn\u2019t count.)<\/p>\n

Karinne Gordon<\/strong>Pacific Grove<\/em><\/p>\n

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