LETTER: Texas school shooting hits close to home

People react outside the Civic Center in Uvalde, Texas, Tuesday, May 24, 2022. An 18-year-old gunman opened fire at a Texas elementary school, killing multiple people. Gov. Greg Abbott says the gunman entered Robb Elementary School in Uvalde with a handgun and possibly a rifle. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

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Jimmy Kimmel speaks at the Oscars. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

LETTER: The free speech debate

The Dome of the U.S. Capitol Building. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

LETTER: Congress must assert itself

President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

LETTER: Trump should lead the way on civil discourse

LETTER: Public safety workers and bloated public pensions

Franklin D. Fite Henderson

May 25, 2022 - 9:01 pm

I am retired military — with my children, their spouses and their children we total 100 years of service to our country. So guns and weapons are no stranger to our family. We are also no stranger to Texas. Two children born in Texas, I graduated from a Texas university and we as a family have lived in at least six different cities there.

At this time, one of our grandsons lives in San Antonio with two of our great-grandsons. Early Tuesday, we received a call telling us of their plans for summer, which included us. It was a happy time, and the two boys were bubbling over with the news.

Wednesday morning, we received the news that one of our great-grandsons, a fourth grader, was too frightened and distraught to go to school. Too bad all senators and representatives did not get that same call this morning.

We have moved from muskets to AR-15s, and we see no need to look at changes? What is the next step, drones with rockets that will take out an entire school?

LETTER: The free speech debate

David Fanning Las Vegas

October 1, 2025 - 9:01 pm

Kimmel comment was misinformation.

LETTER: Congress must assert itself

William Pates Las Vegas

October 1, 2025 - 10:25 am

This is getting too scary. It is time for Congress to take back control of what is supposed to be a division of powers.

LETTER: Trump should lead the way on civil discourse

John Schryver Henderson

October 1, 2025 - 10:25 am

How can there be any civil debate when not even the president of the United States can be civil?

LETTER: Public safety workers and bloated public pensions

Peter D. Kinsley Las Vegas

September 30, 2025 - 9:43 am

I found Tom Conlin‘s Thursday letter to be ridiculous. It was an exercise in justifying gross benefits for life at the expense of the taxpayer.

LETTER: Activist judge shouldn’t be on the bench

Joe Howard Henderson

September 30, 2025 - 9:42 am

The Nevada Commission on Judicial Discipline should fire Judge Erika Ballou, not suspend her.

U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @bizutesfaye

LETTER: Nevada senators vote for a government shutdown

Samuel Ingalls Henderson

September 29, 2025 - 6:57 am

I was shocked by our senators’ votes to march the government idiotically toward shutdown.

LETTER: One way to pay down the federal debt

John Turzer Henderson

September 28, 2025 - 9:01 pm

With a few budget “haircuts” here and there, the prospects of a balanced federal budget are much closer to reality. What a novel concept.

LETTER: Tourism decline: Donald Trump isn’t helping

Joan Bockholt North Las Vegas

September 29, 2025 - 6:55 am

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?