The Concord City Council will negotiate exclusively with the Seeno companies to develop the long-anticipated Naval Weapons Station project. (Dan Rosenstrauch/Staff Archives)
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Urge Concord council
to advance NWS plan
I’m a longtime resident of Concord and a retired police officer from the Concord Police Department. I want to express my support for the city of Concord’s vision for the Concord Naval Weapons Station project. It will be of great benefit to Concord’s residents, to our children and our grandchildren.
Not only will this new project attract future high-paying jobs to our city, but it will provide affordable housing for our young adult children and aging seniors alike. This housing will be close to BART, a new regional park with walking and biking trails and other recreational amenities. The Concord Naval Weapons Station project will include new shopping, dining, hotels and recreational opportunities for those of us who live here.
All of us need to get behind this project and ask the City Council to move forward with making it a reality as soon as possible.
Scott Wagner
Concord
Slate will continue
Acalanes’ excellence
We can be very proud of the accomplishments of the Acalanes Union High School District (AUHSD) over the past years and now. This is a dedicated community that cares deeply about excellence in education for all students.
We and our former colleagues on the Acalanes Union High School Board, Vanessa Crews, Susie Epstein, Tom Mulvaney, Margot Tobias, Fred Weil and Richard Whitmore, would like to recommend strong support for the following candidates for the AUHSD board to continue that excellence. We know that these candidates have shown their dedication to lead in our communities. Their knowledge of the issues has been and will continue to be demonstrated. These are strong leaders who can be trusted: Jennifer Chen, Nancy Kendzierski and Chris Severson.
Please vote for these candidates in the Nov. 8 election to continue the excellence in our schools.
Judy Carney
Lafayette
and Kathy Coppersmith
Walnut Creek
Kumagai will champion
women’s health care
Assembly candidate Shawn Kumagai has the experience we need to improve and protect access to women’s health care in California.
As district director for Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan, D-Orinda, Kumagai has worked tirelessly to move Bauer-Kahan’s legislative agenda forward, including helping to pass new laws to protect a woman’s right to choose and to ensure that all women can obtain the health care they need. He has worked hard as part of Bauer-Kahan’s leadership team to help safeguard a patient’s right to access reproductive health care safely and privately, and assisting her in her position as chairwoman of the Assembly Select Committee on Reproductive Health.
Our assembly district needs a leader like Kumagai who can jump right in on this important issue and already knows how to get the job done. I’m voting for Shawn.
Linda Knapp
Dublin
Vote Lauritzen for
CoCo Water District
Re. “Water board has weak candidates in contested race,” Page A6, Sept. 15 :
There was one line in the editorial on the Contra Costa Water District race about Mariah Lauritzen advocating for recycled water. Blink and you would miss it.
In 2020, Lauritzen promised to push recycled water at Central San to prepare for the effects of climate change. When she couldn’t push recycled water at Central San due to regulations, she chose a winning strategy and got the district to move on net zero emissions goals instead.
Now in 2022, Lauritzen is running for Contra Costa Water District, where she will have the power to push recycled water as she had promised. I only wish more elected officials would be as persistent and focused in trying to keep their promises.
Let Lauritzen finish the work she has already started. She has shown that she can build consensus on a board to act now on the huge water challenges ahead.
Jessica Ozalp
San Ramon