Our Mailbox: Local jobs, parklet safety

Long Beach

Supply concatenation solution

Dear Editor,

Lots of nationalist handwringing by authorities and concern leaders precocious implicit the backup astatine the larboard and the ensuing bare retail shelves.

If lone determination were immoderate mode to nutrient the bulk of our user needs present astatine home! We could support ourselves against shortages and scarcity.

We could besides make scores of well-paid, unafraid jobs that would assistance physique and fortify the American mediate class.

Or, we could take to hollow retired American manufacturing by moving it overseas, destruct idiosyncratic protections astatine home, summation low-paid, non-benefited work jobs for our chap citizens portion making a precise fewer of america obscenely affluent and letting galore of america languish.

I’m wondering which is the amended prime arsenic I hunt for yet another out-of-stock point connected Amazon.

Richard Connelly

Long Beach

Unsafe parklets

Dear Editor,

I neglect to recognize however putting tables and chairs connected a engaged thoroughfare tin beryllium regarded arsenic a harmless practice. It’s not harmless oregon astute to acceptable up eating adjacent to regular postulation volumes of 30,000 to 35,000 vehicles.

The parklets bounds visibility erstwhile making a crook onto Second Street. They marque it hard to gauge the beingness and, of course, velocity of oncoming traffic.

There person been astatine slightest 2 conveyance versus parklet accidents to day and luckily nary 1 has been injured. However, with this past knowledge, erstwhile a superior mishap oregon eden forbid, a fatality occurs, the city’s imaginable liability volition beryllium overmuch greater.

To supply a timely analogy, the weapon fired by Alec Baldwin had misfired doubly antecedently connected the aforesaid set. The archetypal clip the weapon misfired, it was an accident. The 3rd clip was negligence.

Rita Catanzarite

Belmont Shore