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Roseville’s broken oath

“Roseville drag show shut down due to conservative backlash,” (sacbee.com, March 7)

The most frustrating and sad thing about this situation is that the Roseville Joint Union High School District School Board has made clear how lazily it intends to be in governing our kids and their education. If the board so easily bows to the pressures of one group, without making any attempt to really understand the other, then their sympathies are not with the welfare of every student and parent in the district, but with the ideology of outside interest groups that are expressly exclusionary and harmful.

The board has broken its oath to kids who don’t and won’t fit into the world inhabited by the people who pushed to cancel the drag show. A drag show is just that: a show. It can be anything it wants to be just like any play, movie, book or other form of artistic expression. To advocate otherwise makes no sense.

Neva Marie Parker

Roseville

Disheartening coverage

“Sacramento City Councilwoman Caity Maple made a bad vote,” (sacbee.com, March 6)

I am a lifelong Democrat and Bee reader, and I have concerns about the influence of police unions. But the attacks on Sacramento City Councilwoman Caity Maple over her vote to approve the purchase of a Rook are disheartening.

To me, the acquisition of a Rook does not “militarize” Sac PD, despite what columnist Robin Epley writes. Epley makes the astonishing charge that Maple lied to her constituents. It seems that “constituents” for Epley are limited to “her” people, and Maple must vote lockstep with that group.

Epley dismisses “moderate and older voters.” Compared to her, I fall into that group. As an older voter, I have no hope of redemption in Epley’s world. I am not good enough for Epley, though I wonder if The Bee is good enough for me.

David Camozzi

Sacramento

Call for balance

“Sacramento City Councilwoman Caity Maple made a bad vote,” (sacbee.com, March 6)

I have found The Bee’s attacks on City Councilwoman Caity Maple to be biased and unwarranted. The Rook purchased by the Sacramento Police Department is a shield, not a tank.

We do not employ police officers to get killed trying to protect people in peril. Perhaps Maple should have prepared her people for her vote, but the attacks on her are unnecessary.

The Bee should be more balanced in its opinions, attacks and crusades.

Ron W Loutzenhiser

Galt

New format has issues

“The Sacramento Bee: Sacramento CA News, Sports & Politics,” (sacbee.com)

What’s with the new format listing of birthdays? Why are you listing dead people? It was fine the way it was when you listed celebrities, sports figures and politicians.

Please bring back the prior format. It wasn’t broken, so there was no need to fix it.

Mike Barrow

Citrus Heights

Substandard

“The Sacramento Bee: Sacramento CA News, Sports & Politics,” (sacbee.com)

From a long-time customer and advertiser: The new birthday format is substandard. Displaying birthdates for dead people is not journalism, just laziness. Please reinstate the former birthday announcement format.

Paul Brecher

Fair Oaks

Historic racism

“Lawmakers say to question AAPI loyalty is ‘dangerous,’ ‘racist’,” (sacbee.com, March 6)

Questioning the loyalty of Asian American citizens, solely based on their skin color, is racist and perpetuates their “perpetual foreigner” status. Please visit the fully rebuilt exhibit “Uprooted: An American Story” at the California Museum to learn how Japanese Americans were rounded up and incarcerated during WWII.

Harry Wang

Sacramento

CPUC broke the law

“Why energy leaders say California gas bills spiked this winter,” (sacbee.com, Feb. 8)

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has broken the law. Last December, the CPUC voted unanimously to approve Net Energy Metering 3.0, slashing payments for excess solar production sent to the grid by 75%.

Three environmental groups have formally appealed the CPUC’s decision based on five specific violations. For example, the CPUC’s decision violates the law by making solar uneconomical for low-income people with no viable alternative. They also broke the state’s mandate to keep rooftop solar growing. This decision potentially shrinks rooftop solar adoption by half.

The appeal details how the CPUC’s decision was based on faulty math and incomplete evidence. Breaking the law should have consequences. The CPUC must delay implementing their decision until they resolve the issues raised in the environmental groups’ appeal.

Rene Wise

Fremont