Blame the School Board, not union chiefs
To the editor:
The Sunday editorial, "School unions out of touch," got it wrong. Stephen Augspurger and Ruben Murillo are employees of their respective unions. They were hired to get the highest wages and best benefits possible for their members, and they are doing a great job.
The problem is with the people who allow the wages and benefits to become a reality -- the Clark County School Board. Members of the board need to learn to say "no" and instead protect the taxpayers. The Review-Journal needs to give out the phone numbers of the School Board members.
PHILLIP REGESKI
LAS VEGAS
Train wreck?
To the editor:
In Monday's Review-Journal, architect Frank Gehry related that the nearly complete Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, which he designed, took his breath away ("Unique building pleases its creator"). Being from Santa Monica, Mr. Gehry certainly shows the California attitude for design.
As a worker in downtown Las Vegas, I have watched this structure go up since the dirt was plowed. Five days a week, I drive by the site, and as the building took form, I always thought it looked like a site where a plane had crashed into a structure. We can only hope the Ruvo center serves its seriously ill patients better than its architect, Mr. Gehry, served the design of the building. Most unusual.
TODD WHEELAN
NORTH LAS VEGAS
Speech police
To the editor:
Some 16-year-old kid commandeered a Wal-Mart courtesy phone and ordered all black people in the store to leave (Associated Press story, Saturday Review-Journal).
Dumb? Yes. Inappropriate? Yes. But, worst of all, politically incorrect. So the kid was arrested and charged with bias intimidation and harassment.
This is our future, folks, if the "speech police" have their way. No matter that the Constitution of these United States allows for stupid, even offensive, speech. Politically correct "progressives" are determined to tell you what you can say. They have already passed laws mandating what you can eat or drink, how much water you can use to flush your toilet or to take a shower, and many Americans have meekly surrendered to them.
It may be 26 years late, but "1984" is fast becoming a reality. That is, if we allow the leftists to abrogate our rights.
I, for one, will not.
JERRY FINK
LAS VEGAS
'Smart meters'
To the editor:
Regarding "NV Energy tests smart meters in new valley initiative" in Saturday's Review-Journal: I can't remember a more disturbing article than this one.
Here I am living in the desert, and the power company, which has no competition, is going to charge me more for electricity in the daytime, when I need it, and less in the nighttime, when I don't need it as much.
If ever there were a time when government regulation was needed, this is it. People who are essentially confined to their homes should be exempt from this scheme to charge us more for electricity. Nevadans already pay too much for electricity.
I have no doubt this will be rammed down our throats. What choice do we have? We can't switch power companies. I only hope that our lawmakers will stand up for us and regulate it to the extent that the pain is bearable.
ROGER WITCHER
LAS VEGAS
Wayne Allyn Root
To the editor:
Wayne Allyn Root? Oh my god! You guys don't even pretend anymore.
I love reading your editorial pages. I guess that's the point, right? It reminds me where I stand politically and intellectually.
-- I don't think decisions made in our country in the 21st century should be based on 18th century beliefs;
-- I don't think Ronald Reagan was our greatest president;
-- I voted for Barack Obama, and I'm proud to admit it;
-- I would hate to wear a gun just to go to the store to get milk;
-- I don't think Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are enemies of freedom, or communists, or socialists or whatever else your columnists want to call them;
-- We as a state are already last in the country in almost everything; everybody in the country wants to ship their nuclear waste here. Might as well vote Harry Reid out and move immediately to the back of the line in the U.S. Senate and make it complete.
MARK BRADSHAW
HENDERSON
To the editor:
I just got done reading Wayne Allyn Root's Sunday column. I was excited to see a piece by him in the newspaper. I am a big fan of his and would love to see more of him in the Review-Journal.
DEBRA DEDMON
LAS VEGAS
Losers
To the editor:
The shrill voice of the Review-Journal is on the wrong side of history again. How can you expect to influence thinking people with your whacked-out editorial policy? You're just like the others -- you have no facts or proposals of your own. No problem, you just yell louder.
Losers.
KEVIN WILCOXON
LAS VEGAS
