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Vote for Josey
for Dublin council

I would like to really encourage men and women to reelect Jean Josey for the Dublin Metropolis Council. As element of the city of Dublin’s fiscal sustainability undertaking power five many years back, I bought to see her potential to perform with people today of divergent views and backgrounds, and the diligent way she prepares.

Her background of volunteering and currently being unafraid of leadership started off pretty much 20 several years in the past as the Father or mother Faculty Council president at Dublin Elementary and Wells Middle colleges. She is really smart, and equally personable, and enjoys the difficult work of finding out as a lot as she can about a matter in advance of generating her choices. She doesn’t consider campaign funding from developers and keeps herself out of cases that would present a conflict of interest. Her conclusions are exclusively dependent on what is greatest for the metropolis she loves.

We want much more candidates who are as selfless and committed as Jean.

Joe Washington

Dublin

$1.1 billion much too substantially
for trashy highways

Re. “Help is on the way for ‘trashy’ California freeways: Roadshow,” Sept. 25:

Of course, California’s highways are complete of trash, but shelling out $1.1 billion of public money to clean up trash is a trashy option.

I was lifted to toss my trash in the garbage, and I lifted my three little ones to do so as properly. If California executed its current penal code for littering and authorized citizens to choose pictures of offenders and deliver them to Caltrans so that the litterers will be held accountable, we would have an army of trash collectors. An additional deterrent would be to increase the time of offenders for buying up roadside litter to an overall week of services.

I was also taught that money does not improve on trees. Would seem like cash grows on trees in California, and I can imagine of a large amount greater use of $1.1 billion than to clean up up other people’s trash.

Andrea Bloom
Pleasanton

Column must have
encouraged dialogue

I was astonished by Amy Dickinson’s response to a question from a individual upset about a neighbor’s flag (“Neighbors fret over massive flag,” Page B14, Sept. 22).

The individual asking for information produced an hard work to be apolitical. It could have been about a U.S. flag, an Earth flag, a Ukrainian flag or anything with text.

All we are instructed is that the flag is objectionable simply because of its “message,” dimension, proximity and flapping noise. Yet Amy chose to conclude with the appeal or command, “God bless The us!”

This experienced absolutely nothing to do with the question. There was no superior explanation to inject any spiritual sentiment.

In any case, our secular Constitution makes sure that American patriotism does not need beliefs in elves, fairies — or gods.

In addition to introducing a divisive remark, Amy did not reiterate in her summary what is possible the most helpful assistance she instructed earlier — to essentially speak with the neighbor about the concern.

Jon Alexandr
Enjoyable Hill

GOP introduced us close
to Putin’s wildest desire

Republican positions are not normally well-known. Who’d vote, just after all, for a lot more tax cuts for billionaires, additional air pollution, banking deregulation, gutting Medicare, privatizing Social Protection, transport work abroad, preserving drug rates substantial, voter suppression, avoiding employees from forming unions, undermining intercontinental cooperation on local weather transform and withdrawing from NATO?

Republicans also voted no on capping out-of-pocket health care prices for seniors, decreasing health insurance policies expenditures for 13 million People in america, producing hundreds of thousands of clean up-vitality employment, creating massive corporations pay out more of their honest share in taxes, producing tax cheats pay back, and decreasing the expenses of little one care and instruction.

If points had long gone the other way on Jan. 6, it would have been a victory past Vladimir Putin’s wildest aspiration: an authoritarian United States that breaks away from democracy, ditches NATO and embraces an isolationist, White nationalist chief with a fondness for massive armed forces parades.

Frank Grygus
San Ramon

Musk’s feedback level
at route towards peace

Elon Musk proposes an conclude to the Ukraine war by an arrangement to make Ukraine a neutral country. That would indicate ending NATO’s press to prolong its get to to Ukraine’s border with Russia. It is only acceptable our country would hardly ever enable an adversary to station troops and war content, including nuclear-capable missiles, any place around our borders.