No shortage of nuclear weapons

Letter to the Editor, Tracy Press Patricia Howell Editor, I bet you have been checking your budget! Don’t worry! The federal government is on the job! You can cross Bombers, Subs and ICBM’s off your budget list. They’ve increased the Pentagon Budget by 25% for 2027 to...

Deadly plutonium and families don’t mix

Letter to the Editor, Tracy Press Gail Rieger Editor, I’ve lived In Tracy for 30 years. I’ve watched our town grow from a handful to more than 100,000 residents. Yet, when I logged onto energy.gov to research the government’s plan to restart industrial-scale plutonium...

Scrutinize nuke plans

San Francisco Chronicle- Marylia Kelley The U.S. government plans to produce 80 or more deadly plutonium bomb cores, called pits, to place inside new nuclear warheads. Manufacturing will be at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and the Savannah River Site in...

Local nuclear weapons activities

Tracy Press– Patricia Howell May 8, 2026   Editor, Public hearing on nuclear weapons in our back yard! I am a director for Tri Valley Community Against Radioactive Environment (CARES). It is a citizen group that keeps watch on the activities of Lawrence Livermore...

Plutonium Hearing

Pleasanton Weekly Letters to the Editor– Marylia Kelley May 8, 2026   Tri-Valley residents have a rare opportunity to stem plutonium increases locally and impact nuclear weapons policy nationally at an upcoming public hearing. The National Nuclear Security...