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LETTER: Southern Nevada Housing Authority to modernize old complex

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LETTER: All burned up
By Doug Farmer, Las Vegas
September 28, 2019 - 9:00 pm
 

In a Sept. 21 article, the Review-Journal’s Michael Scott Davidson reports that the Southern Nevada Regional Housing Authority is going to spend $12.3 million to modernize a 125-unit public housing complex. That’s $98,400 per unit.

The local housing authority could buy a prefabricated home for one-third of that price — and that includes delivery.

This scheme sounds like a big payoff to someone. Business as usual in Sin City. This is a deal that the mob would have been proud of.

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LETTER: Nevada Legislature, NBA player step up for kids who stutter
Salvador Montoya Ortega Bakersfield, California

Both Michael Kidd-Gilchrist and the Nevada Legislature deserve much praise for stepping up to bat for children who stutter and ultimately transforming so many lives in the process.

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Edward A. Lenz Alexandria, Virginia The writer is senior counsel for the American Staffing Association.

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Kathryn Buffington-Lacey Henderson

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Stephen V. Savran Las Vegas

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Jack Corrick Boulder City

The U.S. Department of Transportation grant to study the alternatives to improving public transit on Charleston means we will spend $5.9 million of before Charleston ever sees an orange cone. Wow.

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Bruce Feher Las Vegas

I’ve lived in Southern Nevada since 1996, and school zones are invisible to many drivers. It seems that the casual attitude of local officials hasn’t helped much.

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