LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

(Jan. 25): I was hoping Judge Joel Wohlfeil would use the John Gordon case to invalidate the City Council’s terrible decision to burden the taxpayers with $30,000-plus of debt payments per day for the next 30 years.

Now it will be up to the Court of Appeal to remedy the 101 Ash Street disaster.

affecting the mentally ill, their families and those incarcerated with them.

However, the sheriff ’s update report also brushes aside other issues of jail safety, including transporting drugs into jails, failure to screen employees and continued opaqueness of review board findings restricted by the sheriff to bare summaries. The latter practice would have resulted, for example, in the George Floyd murder being reported to the public as “Black male; resisted arrest; stopped breathing; unresponsive to resuscitation.” We need details. I hope the sheriff understands we expect more extensive, faster improvements than she seems to be pursuing.

need to be reclassified as brain diseases.

Efforts to slow solar conversion must end

Re “New SDG&E rate hike is one more punch in the gut. How many more will its customers accept?” (Jan. 4): Thank you for this editorial. However, there is little to no good news about solar power gaining market share, since the California Public Utility Commission’s decision last month to support SDG&E’S and the two other corporate utility companies’ proposal to reduce payment for energy sent back to the grid by a whopping 75 percent.

This will apply to those wanting to go solar after April 2023 and will be a huge disincentive to them doing so, which is the utility companies’ intent. That Gov. Newsom has remained largely silent on this proposal is stunning, given his urgent plan to move the state toward more ecofriendly resource utilization.

(Jan. 26): This letter writer states that Republicans “are not that stupid” to take away benefits that citizens have earned.

Republican senators (Rick Scott and Ron Johnson) have spoken recently about being willing to cut or end Social Security. Republicans spent years and countless votes trying to end health care provided by the Obama administration. Many Republican states have enacted total abortion bans that do not even have exceptions for rape or incest.

Refusing to raise the debt limit is not budgeting but is only refusing to pay debts that have already accrued.

The last time Republicans held the debt limit hostage for budget cuts, the credit of America was downgraded for the first time in our history and it added to the national debt by increasing borrowing costs.

Every time that I think the Republican Party is too

Doomsayers need to look at facts, figures

Re “What recession? San Diego unemployment rate drops to 2.9%” (Jan. 20): I read your article in Saturday’s paper, and I really hope that those who routinely predict doom and gloom can open their eyes and recognize that states led by Democrats passing progressive legislation consistently outperform states that slash taxes on billionaires and cut budgets on the backs of working families.

We need to invest in our future, and education, child care, immigration and health care are directly responsible for improving the lives of most of us, just not the billionaires.

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