Letters: State must seize chance to change coyote management
Submit your letter to the editor via this form Read more Letters to the Editor State must change coyote management As the saying goes crazy is doing the same thing over and over but expecting different results By this measure coyote management in California and nationwide has been crazy for decades with constant indiscriminate killing and taxpayer-funded extermination programs all while coyotes survive and move into new areas Fortunately California is poised for change The state s Wildlife Materials Committee will consider new rules to limit coyote killing Science demonstrates that intense persecution of coyotes increases conflicts by encouraging more reproduction and opening territories to inexperienced juvenile dispersers prone to seek food like garbage and small pets Non-lethal methods such as hazing livestock fencing and keeping pets on leash and garbage secured have proven far more effective in reducing human-coyote conflicts The committee s recommendation must be adopted ASAP so that the state can advance new approaches to coyote coexistence which in these changing times are both very necessary and very sane Camilla Fox Larkspur Alzheimer s centers need more state funding The California Alzheimer s Condition Centers including the outstanding UC Davis Center in Walnut Creek are in trouble with a few at danger of closing soon potentially leaving Californians with Alzheimer s in the cold The centers are a smart expenditure that leverages hundreds of millions in federal research spending to expand access to expert assessment and cure for ordinary Californians and to increase provider training Sadly the centers have been underfunded for years while the need for their services has exploded I urge state legislators to actively encouragement the Alzheimer s Association s request for a million increase for the centers Without action we ll lose these precious centers that California has spent millions of dollars and several decades to develop and threat being unprepared for an increased older adult population that we re already woefully underequipped to serve Partha Parthasarathy Concord Alcatraz is another Trump smokescreen Re Reopening Alcatraz no easy task Page A May As usual Donald Trump tosses a wacko idea as red meat into the mediasphere and it becomes news that fills limited news holes with nonsense These are called distractions aimed at taking our eyes off the ball a con artist s trick to keep us from looking closely at the dangerous things he is doing to destroy our democracy Reopening Alcatraz is right up there with making Canada the st state or invading Greenland bewildering hooey It should be treated as such Tom Debley Walnut Creek Co-ed sports answer to transgender issue Re Transgender athlete reveals pain Page A April Let me see if I understand this Greater part boys want to play sports only with boys Majority of girls want to play sports only with girls Specific boys would like to play sports with girls while particular girls would like to play sports with boys The answer is obvious Create a third league and call it co-ed End of matter Am I missing something here Ron Fitch Alameda High-speed rail is too far along to quit Re Trump blasts rail project Page A May I agree with Gov Gavin Newsom s response to the Donald Trump quote The project is too far along for it to be abandoned The Central Valley link should be completed After all the San Francisco to San Jose link is electrified and showing improved ridership Let us see if the completion of this link can begin to recover selected of the money spent Perhaps if the Trump family could profit off the completion of the project the president might not cut off the funding Gerald Veiluva Oakland Hamilton letter predicted Trump In a letter to George Washington Alexander Hamilton wrote Related Articles Letters Without reorganization Santa Clara County grants look like favors Letters Cortese plan to use taxpayer credit to fund housing is a bad pitfall Letters San Jose s homeless law is cruel and unnecessary Suspect in Santana Row Valentine s Day murder event attacks rival gang member in juvenile hall Letters Finance continues to rule U S fitness care When a man unprincipled in private life desperate in his fortune bold in his temper possessed of considerable talents having the advantage of military habits despotic in his ordinary demeanour known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty when such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity to join in the cry of danger to liberty to take every opportunity of embarrassing the General Regime bringing it under suspicion to flatter and fall in with all the non sense of the zealots of the day It may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion that he may ride the storm and direct the whirlwind His topic was demagoguery and he was prescient Michael Youngblood Danville
