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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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Alameda County DAis coddling criminals<\/h4>\n

It should not surprise anyone that Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price dropped special circumstances<\/a>\u00a0against David Misch, one involving his alleged kidnapping and murder of Michaela Garecht in 1988, giving him the possibility of being paroled, instead of serving life in prison.<\/p>\n

Soon after Ms. Price was elected, she said she would \u201cseek to remove all 41 local cases from Death Row and to resentence people who were sentenced to life without parole<\/a>.\u201d She also said her \u201cadministration will begin an era of change that ultimately will make us (Alameda County residents) stronger and safer.\u201d I beg to differ, not with the likes of Misch running around.<\/p>\n

The voters and residents of Alameda County are being introduced to a new form of criminal justice \u2014 one that, in my view, is not going to keep them safe and favors the perpetrator.<\/p>\n

Ninfa Wood<\/strong>Walnut Creek<\/em><\/p>\n

Quarry plan willundermine rural road<\/h4>\n

The EBMUD plan to fill in the old quarry on Lake Chabot Road, located on county land between San Leandro and Castro Valley, with soil excavated during pipeline maintenance proposes to run 60 to 100 dump trucks a day along Lake Chabot Road for 40 to 80 years.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s right. If anybody now alive is here to see it, the site and adjacent hillside will eventually be seeded and planted with native plants.<\/p>\n

Lake Chabot Road is currently closed because of landslides and erosion that have undermined the roadbed. It\u2019s doubtful that it will ever be able to support the constant dump truck traffic.<\/p>\n\n

Gary Sloane<\/strong>San Leandro<\/em><\/p>\n

Agencies must makebetter use of tax dollars<\/h4>\n

Re. “Prop. 13 proves costly to government programs<\/a>,” Page A8, Jan. 13:<\/p>\n

I disagree with the notion that local and state governments don’t have enough money already from other taxes and bonds for impoverished schools, understaffed government offices and infrastructure.<\/p>\n

Our property taxes are plenty high in California and enough businesses have been run out of the state. We don’t need any more lost jobs and tax base.<\/p>\n

The real problem is not a lack of funding but how all of these agencies use the money they have.<\/p>\n

Herman Betchart<\/strong>Fremont<\/em><\/p>\n

Recount cost is worthelection integrity<\/h4>\n

The article “Are Alameda County elections actually headed to a recount?<\/a>” (Page B1, Jan. 15) regarding \u201cvoters confusion about everything from the results of certain races to the future of ranked choice voting\u201d helps me understand why people might question election results.<\/p>\n

The District 4 Oakland Unified school board \u201csnafu\u201d demonstrates that our election systems are not infallible. That said, I believe that the seeds of doubt this might have cast is very troubling. The cost of letting any doubts remain will be much more costly to our society in the long run than any monetary cost of a recount now. We should not put a price on maintaining faith in election integrity.<\/p>\n

Dennis Carlisle<\/strong>Newark<\/em><\/p>\n

Predicting climate changeisn’t settled science<\/h4>\n

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recently stated<\/a> to \u201cExpect record-shattering hot years soon, likely in the next couple years because of \u2018relentless\u2019 climate change from the burning of coal, oil and gas.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last October, this same NOAA released its U.S. Winter Outlook. Researchers predicted<\/a> that through February 2023, “California will still have to contend with the ongoing drought and won\u2019t see much precipitation.\u201d Wrong.<\/p>\n

Scientists admittedly can’t predict hurricanes a year out with any accuracy, but they want us to believe they can predict global temperatures and sea levels years out.\u00a0Real science is never \u201csettled.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jon Rego<\/strong>Clayton<\/em><\/p>\n

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