Officials with the Nevada Department of Transportation insist that HOV restrictions reduce emissions by removing vehicles from general purpose lanes (Wednesday Review-Journal editorial).
I sit in four lanes of slow-moving traffic, all of us polluting our air quality. Occasionally I see a car go by in the HOV lane. Those occasional vehicles are reducing emissions?
I was shocked by our senators’ votes to march the government idiotically toward shutdown.
With a few budget “haircuts” here and there, the prospects of a balanced federal budget are much closer to reality. What a novel concept.
About the criticisms of the “please come to Nevada” campaign: What can a slogan, no matter how compelling or clever, do when the deck is stacked against us?
What I don’t get is why, with the water crisis, we continue to build around 12,000 new homes here in Las Vegas every year.
A woman gets probation for pulling out a gun and firing shots at a group of individuals on the Strip? Insanity.
