East Bay Times Letters to the Editor for July 20, 2023
City goes to trial with developer in ‘coal war’Thank you for your timely coverage of the Oakland “coal war.” However, despite his quoted comment about preventing coal dust, Phil Tagami has never committed to using covered cars. For good reason — covers for coal cars are not commercially available. If they were, they would be prohibitively expensive and might lead to the spontaneous combustion of the coal.
PM 2.5 disproportionately affects infants, children, the elderly, the poor and people of color. It causes cancer, heart and lung disease, dementia, adverse birth outcomes and learning disorders. And what it will do to the city of Pittsburg when great-paying jobs with excellent benefits are all gone? There is nothing else to offer the 600-plus people that will be without jobs. And it will cause a ripple effect in the canning business, driving up the price of canned foods.Prop. 13 at heart ofaffordability crisisAccording to the article, “California’s divergence from the rest of the nation is really due to the affordability crisis.
Keeping a home’s assessed value artificially low underlies so many issues such as low funding for schools, police, fire and infrastructure. It’s a sad commentary on California’s “liberal” values.
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