County parks bureaucracy should get out of the way

To the editor:

In response to Saturday's Review-Journal editorial, "Of parks and profit":

At 62, I am the oldest member of Boot Camp Las Vegas. Director Julie Johnston's dedication to health and fitness got me up off the couch and got me into shape again. If the County Commission imposes new regulations on our park use, it will force members to pay higher fees so she can continue to run her exercise classes in public parks.

Members have paid their taxes to use these parks. Ms. Johnston has paid her county fees to run her organization. But park officials want more money and more rules.

At the last Clark County Commission meeting, Chairman Rory Reid stated that charging fitness groups for park use was a "solution looking for a problem." Unrealistic and arbitrary regulation of a problem that does not exist, kills the ability of a small, shoestring-budget organization such as Boot Camp Las Vegas to help the citizens of Clark County be healthy.

Clark Coleman

LAS VEGAS

On target

To the editor:

Without a doubt, Publisher Sherman Frederick's Sunday critique on the plethora of current world events and the cast of characters who manipulate these events was by far one of his best columns.

He is right. UNLV is a circus. While its staff whines that they need more money, the president and athletic director make more than 20 grade-school teachers put together.

As far as Sen. Harry Reid is concerned, he is nothing more than Nancy Pelosi's hand puppet. From his statement that "all is lost" in Iraq to his lockstep march with any issue that is far-left, Sen. Reid has given us many reasons to vote him out of office.

Mr. Frederick was also right on with his analysis of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. Can you imagine the outcry if a Caucasian nominee stated that a white man with the richness of his experience could arrive at better conclusions than a black or Hispanic who hasn't lived his life? Do you think that man would ever be nominated? The fact that President Obama is even considering this woman is preposterous. Then again, we have a president who appoints tax evaders to his administration to tell the rest of us how to obey the law.

We are fortunate to have a free press and an old-fashioned, hard-hitting publisher like Mr. Frederick.

Ron Moers

HENDERSON