Saturday’s Letters to the Editor

Putin’s local weather risk

EDITOR: The Russian navy surrounds and threatens the Ukrainian individuals. In doing so, Vladimir Putin has vastly elevated the worth per barrel of oil on the worldwide market, making him the large winner, whereas all of us undergo larger costs.

The extra troops on the border, the upper the worth per barrel of oil. This pattern is locked in place, particularly in winter. On the one hand, Putin threatens Ukraine, and however he threatens the worldwide economic system with document inflation due to this oil worth spike. This weakens the U.S. economic system and all our democratic allies.

To defeat Putin within the brief time period we have to arm the Ukrainians, and within the long-term we should transition to climate-friendly inexperienced energy.

President Joe Biden’s Construct Again Higher plan has a instrument package for this transition. This won’t be straightforward, and all of us could need to sacrifice for the brief haul.

To get to the following mountain, first you need to go down into the transition valley, ending fossil gas dependence. Subsequently, one optimistic consequence of this inexperienced revolution could be the collapse of the Russian dictator’s oil economic system so we will throw Putin onto the dustbin of historical past.

STEVEN GARCIA

Sebastopol

Disparity vs. injustice

EDITOR: The current examine about high quality of life in Sonoma County and sure neighborhoods referred to “inequity” (“Uneven progress for some,” Jan. 26). One quote was this inequity is the results of choices made by these in energy.

Disparity can simply be quantified. Inequity implies injustice and victimization, and is a judgment, not a quantifiable statistic.

Disparity is way extra sophisticated than injustice, and its correction won’t ever be obtained by judgments of injustice and victimization. That’s passing the buck and can by no means end in equality. It’s a drawback way more advanced than injustice or inequity.

It’s definitely extra advanced than neighborhood.

ROGER DELGADO

Sebastopol

Individuals at warfare

EDITOR: As a Japanese American, and having been an internee throughout World Struggle II, I learn the Jan. 30 articles about veterans with nice curiosity. The interview with Anne Ohki about her husband, Ed, who was a part of the 442nd Regimental Fight Workforce preventing in Europe through the warfare, introduced again reminiscences of my father volunteering within the Topaz camp and preventing in Italy and France (“Exploring lives of veterans’ households”). My mom all the time mentioned she would take fewer medals if it meant fewer wounds.

The opposite article was about H.R. 6434, the invoice launched within the Home to create the Japanese American World Struggle II Historical past Community to advertise heritage visits to the websites linked to Japanese American internment (“Highlighting historic tragedy”). I hope it passes on Feb. 19, the date Franklin Roosevelt signed Govt Order 9066 creating our internment and helps stop it from occurring to some other group of Individuals.

JON YATABE

Bodega Bay

Making historical past private

EDITOR: I used to be honored with a point out as soon as in Gaye LeBaron’s column, when she profiled my accordion instructor, Guido Canevari. That was cool. However what actually resonates for me is how she created neighborhood (her old-older recreation) and taught neighborhood historical past.

Due to her, I do know a lot extra about Sonoma County than I ever may have realized from journey guides or espresso desk books. I moved right here from Calistoga in 1963 (massive transfer for a 7-year-old), and I don’t keep in mind a time once I wasn’t studying from LeBaron’s column, even throughout her first “retirement.” Nobody may have made historical past extra attention-grabbing, as a result of she made historical past private. And since she is a fantastic author.

Take pleasure in your retirement, Gaye. You might be one in all my beloved-friends-that-I’ve-never-met.

JAN LAPPIN

Rohnert Park

Have a look at sheriffs’ data

EDITOR: What number of of my fellow residents learn Dave Edmonds’ Near Residence column (“Time to repair the damaged Sheriff’s Workplace,” Jan. 23)? I encourage readers to analyze each level made by Edmonds, a candidate for sheriff and a 30-year veteran of the Sheriff’s Workplace.

You probably have been taking note of the workplace beneath the final two elected sheriffs, you’ll be able to hardly be stunned by this perception. Permit me to recite the outcomes of their management. Final yr the county’s annual insurance coverage premiums jumped a whopping $2.7 million, or 46%, due to make use of of power settlements; Andy Lopez was shot and killed by a deputy in 2013; and the Sheriff’s Workplace continues its political video games to stymie progress of the Impartial Workplace of Regulation Enforcement Evaluate and Oversight.

They opposed the desire of 65% of the neighborhood in exercising each attainable angle to dam Measure P, they file lawsuits towards the Board of Supervisors and are accused of bullying Supervisor Lynda Hopkins. Final Might, the sheriff went rogue once more, defying the county well being officer’s COVID-19 orders.

The place is the respect for neighborhood pursuits and belief? Do your homework and assist a candidate who campaigns for actual change and could have nothing to do with the ethics and methodologies of our final two sheriffs.

FRANK DARIEN

Santa Rosa

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