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Training a way to slash
secondhand smoke

Numerous multi-unit housing people are plagued by secondhand smoke in the Bay Spot and have to endure from coronary heart disorder, most cancers and asthma assaults even if they never smoke themselves. A lot of local community users really don’t realize this common health and fitness hazard that threatens their homes’ protection, which is why it is very important for multi-unit housing people and people who smoke to be educated about the impacts of secondhand smoke.

Oftentimes, citizens offer with secondhand smoke utilizing air flow devices, like air conditioners but in accordance to the CDC, this does not prevent exposure to secondhand smoke and in its place even more distributes smoke during a unit. To go an efficient city policy limiting smoking cigarettes in multi-unit housing and combating secondhand smoke, leaders want to acknowledge the wants of group users and the effects of secondhand smoke. I implore audience to observe the direct of organizations that are fully commited to advocacy through instruction.

Samiksha Lingan
Hayward

What was level of
Pelosi’s Taiwan excursion?

I have no issue with defying China. However, I also believe that there should be a strategic purpose driving this defiance.

If Nancy Pelosi had one particular for her stop by to Taiwan, it has not been manufactured public. To make the stop by with the sole intent of “poking the bear,” or in this circumstance, the dragon, does not make considerably feeling relative to globe tensions in today’s surroundings.

Mitch Fidziura
Pleasanton

Voters really should abandon
Democratic Party

I had to chortle when I browse Steve Koppman’s letter (“Democrats squander their political funds,” Web site A6, July 27) complaining that the Democrats waste their political cash by standing guiding democratically untenable phenomena.

At very first I believed he was a Republican becoming sarcastic. But that is who the Democratic Occasion leaders are now. It reminds me of Ronald Reagan stating that he did not depart the Democratic Social gathering they left him. Elon Musk not too long ago tweeted something identical. Individually, I felt the Democratic Get together remaining me in 1980.

Probably it is time for Koppman and other Democrats to arrive to the identical summary. Californians would be improved off if far more men and women realized that the Democratic Get together does not characterize our common values.

Lester Cost
Walnut Creek

Liberty Mutual wears
out its welcome

Properly, I’ve last but not least observed one far too several Liberty Mutual commercials with the tagline: “Only pay out for what you want.”

Last 12 months, though obtaining my householders, auto and umbrella liability coverage all with Liberty Mutual (what I wanted), I received a letter stating that they would no for a longer time cover owners insurance policies in my ZIP code. Not just me, all of 94549 Lafayette.

Wouldn’t real truth in promoting call for their tagline to be: “Only fork out for what we want to promote you”?

Peter Coenen
Lafayette

National priorities are
not in sync with needs

It’s fascinating to see what our national priorities are.

VFAB reviews that the U.S. Army assignments slipping 40,000 troops short of its recruiting targets in excess of the upcoming two years. At the same time, DHS claims it doesn’t have adequate Border Patrol agents in the crucial South Texas and Central Arizona sectors.