Re: “ ” (Page A1, May 25). While the media rightly covered the tragic Skyline High shooting, the community’s resilience and the graduates’ achievements will be overshadowed. We won’t hear about the joyous celebration, beautiful speeches encouraging kindness and perseverance, community support providing parking and transport, or the valedictorian’s inspiring words embracing identity while showing empathy.
The response to this shooting represents a tiny fraction of Oakland’s vibrancy overcoming oppression through love. The Class of 2024 embodied this spirit, now drowned out. When will enough be enough? Child gun deaths rose from 2019-21.
The United States is the only developed nation where it’s the top cause of child death over car accidents. How many more lives must shatter before demanding real gun law reform? Prioritizing child safety over gun lobby interests is vital for their futures. This can’t be another tragic statistical blip.
The passing of the instilled much-needed hope and invigorated our country’s momentum in transitioning to a clean energy future. Let’s not let our outdated power grid hold us back. Estimates show that if we continue at our current pace of transmission buildout we’ll miss out on 80% of the infrastructure law’s emissions reduction potential.
The current bottlenecks are severe: There’s waiting to connect to the U.S. power grid than the total generation capacity of existing power plants.
This is a daunting challenge, but a .