I was flipping through the T.V. stations Saturday morning when I came across America’s Test Kitchen, one of my favorite cooking shows. (Bridget and Julia rock!) They were preparing baklava, the Middle Eastern treat I hadn’t had in decades. (I’ve had plenty of halvah, which is similar but different.)
Happy Memorial Day
I salute the men and women of the armed services who have always protected our freedom and our lives. I’m thinking in particular of my Uncle, Dr. Leonard Lincoln Heimoff, who served in the Pacific under General MacArthur during World War II. He was a medic and his specialty was venereal disease, which was a real problem among the troops. Uncle Lenny returned from active service to set up a general practice in The Bronx. He was our family doctor. I mourn the loss of the personal relationship doctors used to have with their patients before managed care took over.
Thank you Uncle Lenny and to all the vets! God bless and keep you.
Steve Heimoff
Kudos to Ramachandran for advocating “a culture of enforcement”
It’s never popular for an Oakland politician to urge greater law enforcement in our progressive city. Too many voters resent cops, a sentiment they’re steered into by liberal city officials who, one way or another, insinuate that the police are horrible, bad, rogue racists who delight in bashing Black skulls.
It’s tough to be a Catholic these days
The myth of police overtime
I’m sick and tired of people complaining about OPD’s overtime. Look: the department currently has about 667 full-time cops. That is hundreds less than a city the size of Oakland, with our horrible crime rate, requires, according to LeRonne Armstrong, the former OPD chief whom recalled mayor Sheng Thao fired. Therefore, OPD depends on overtime in order to keep cops on the beat. If the City Council really wants to reduce overtime, then let it act responsibly and fund another 500 cops. Then we’ll see police overtime fall dramatically.