Letters: Who cares about ‘No Kings’? Millions of Americans.

Submit your letter to the editor via this form Read more Letters to the Editor Who cares about No Kings Millions Donald Trump s response to the No Kings protests on Oct was who cares We the people nearly million of us here in the U S care We care about all aspects of Trump s retribution agenda that are taking us swiftly into a fascist dictatorship that will harm everyone except Trump s MAGA followers from his cabinet on down Related Articles Letters Expanded Spare the Air Alerts deserve Bay Area sponsorship Letters Ending the truck ban on I- will only spread the pain Letters San Jose animal shelter still turning deaf ear to neighborhood Letters E-commerce necessities smart business protocol to thrive Letters Democrats need a candidate not a careerist Americans say they re scared but are they scared enough Are they scared enough to publicly protest courageously and peacefully or accompany immigrants to buy groceries who are afraid to go out of the house or phone their D C elected leaders to express their fears and outrage or speak up publicly instead of being silent or cancel Facebook or use Android instead of an iPhone Mark Zuckerberg and Tim Cook bent their knees and are now two of Trump s biggest supporters or boycott Target and Walmart both scaled back their DEI initiatives on orders from Trump When will Americans be scared enough before it s too late Ramona Krausnick Dublin Aid state effort to restore CEQA rules Re Chamber pushing initiative to revise CEQA permitting rules Page A Oct Dan Walter s review of the Chamber of Commerce s proposed ballot initiative mischaracterizes a new law overhauling CEQA California s landmark environmental protection law Walters states SB applies particularly to high-density multi-family projects In reality it encompasses a broad category of construction unrelated to housing exempting advanced manufacturing projects from constituents disclosure environmental review and mitigation of environmental and medical harms Thirty-five concerned legislators including East Bay state Senators Jesse Arregu n and Christopher Cabaldon and Assemblymembers Rebecca Bauer-Kahan Mia Bonta and Liz Ortega signed onto a letter urging fixes In response Assemblymember Damon Connolly introduced AB to restore vital environmental protections I urge state Senators Arregu n Cabaldon Tim Grayson Jerry McNerney and Aisha Wahab and Assemblymembers Bauer-Kahan Bonta and Ortega to join Assemblymember Connolly as co-authors We re counting on you to protect us from industrial poisoning and not allow the need to boost housing to be used as cover for giving industry a free pass to pollute and undermine our bedrock environmental protections Kate Zimmerman Berkeley GOP Democrats milking shutdown problem for votes Never let a predicament go to waste words every politician lives by and why both Democrats and Republicans especially the lifers who run the Senate and House are willing to let their shutdown fester a scant more weeks After all their next I m fighting for you every day to save our democracy balloting is only months away They need someone to blame for all the chaos and suffering their incompetence and unwillingness even to try to improve our failing strength care system has caused Solving problems is not what politicians do for a living Winning their next voting is all that matters so if a sparse thousand kids go hungry or eventually there are fewer nurses doctors and hospitals so be it there s an voting process to win and they all need someone else to blame Bill Behan Brentwood US should engage with Russia on SALT Re Putin tests nuclear weapons as talks with U S falter Page A Nov The New York Times article that you published on Nov was generally dismissive of any negotiations with the Russians but at least it acknowledged that Vladimir Putin proposed last September to extend the sole remaining nuclear arms limitation agreement between the U S and Russia for an additional year to prevent its expiration this February This extension would forestall an accelerated nuclear arms race and provide time for negotiations Unfortunately there has been no response from the Trump administration other than vague threats to resume nuclear test explosions Despite the perverse suggestions of specific commentators cited in this article that negotiations with the Russians would only give them leverage over us preventing a new nuclear arms race is vital to our safety and humanity s At a time when multiple experts are alarmed that the danger of nuclear war is at an all-time high we must not allow START to expire Michael Dunlap Oakland