I am writing to express my dismay over the inflammatory rhetoric and inaccurate reporting in the two recent articles by Paul Harasim highlighting acupuncture in the Las Vegas Valley. Besides the ongoing dismissive, biased and derisive tone used to describe acupuncture, Mr. Harasim has misrepresented many of the facts, both directly and by omission.
The proponents of an appellate court in Nevada will surely face one criticism above all others if the plan makes the 2014 ballot: Didn’t the voters just say no to this idea?
The 25-year-old foundation Nevada Community Foundation, established with a contribution from local gaming pioneer Moe Dalitz a year before his 1989 death, supports more than 150 funds underwriting dozens of local causes, from scholarships and music education to bullying prevention and animal conservation.
A District Court judge’s dismissal last week of a complaint from the city of Henderson complaint against would-be arena developer Chris Milam is certainly not the last chapter of this sorry saga. But it does reinforce the notion that city officials radically failed in their duty to properly vet this increasingly fantastical deal in the first place.
