Let the billionaire pay for his own arena

To the editor:

Regarding the April 7 article "Arena sticking point: Taxes," let me get this straight.

Raise my taxes to build an arena and then charge me $100 for a ticket and a bag of peanuts? No thanks. If some billionaire developer wants to build an arena, he can do it with his own money.

Mike Surick

Las Vegas

Bad rap

To the editor:

I would like to add my suggestion for removing the smut peddlers from the Strip. If you are caught throwing trash on the ground, you are subject to a fine. The cards handed out by these smut peddlers contain the phone number and possibly the name of the business doing the solicitation. It would be a simple matter to inform these sleazy operators by phone or mail that they will be assessed a fine for cards found on the ground that become litter.

They can now hire more workers to roam up and down the Strip, picking up discarded cards. Paying for extra clean-up crews and paying fines for litter that is not picked up might persuade them to cease this annoying practice that gives Las Vegas a bad rap.

Phillip J. Sparacino

Las Vegas

Not free

To the editor:

I have long suspected that our governor suffers from delusions. Your lead story Wednesday tells us he now believes that lawyers and a major law firm are going to do something for free ("Gibbons orders fight"). If that is not confirmation of my suspicions, I don't know what is.

By the lawyers' own admissions, this lawsuit will take hundreds of hours of their time, and they will do this for free? Never mind the various legal issues, somehow the governor and his lawyer pals will figure out a way for Nevada taxpayers to foot the bill for this, win, lose or draw. An old saying says: "There is no such thing as a free lunch."

I hope someone will pass that thought along to our good governor.

Jack W. Corrick

Boulder City