LETTERS: Bundy, Horsford not worth coverage

To the editor:

Earlier this month, I had to endure the life and legend of the Bundy bunch (“Loving liberty and freedoms,” Nov. 9 Review-Journal). Really? This is news? A family settles on federal land and rips off the public for decades, and I am supposed to feel sorry for these crooks? I think not.

Cliven Bundy and family should and someday will either pay up or go to jail. Short of that, we all should go out in the desert, put up a shack, get some cattle and do the same thing as the Bundy clan is doing. The question is: Why is this front-page news?

Then there was a front-page story about the defeated Rep. Steven Horsford (“Horsford weighing comeback,” Nov. 18 Review-Journal). I think we the people smelled him out for doing nothing, but also taking perks and going to Ferguson, Mo., for a photo op before all the facts were in on that case. For these reasons and others, we got rid of him. He now can go live in Washington, D.C., where his wife has a good job and his kids are in school. Somehow, this too is front-page news.

It seems as if the Review-Journal has too many reporters sitting around trying to figure what to put on the front page, so here’s an idea: have the reporters watch CNN or Fox to see what news really is, and put that on the front page, not wannabes like the Bundy clan and washed-up Rep. Horsford.

GERRY MCNULTY

NORTH LAS VEGAS

CCSD sex education

To the editor:

I am an African-American single mother. As a member of an underserved minority population in this community, I know our children need honest, scientifically accurate sex education. It should be a requirement similar to all other subjects taught in schools. We don’t teach math without numbers, we don’t teach science without formulas, and we should not teach sex education without scientifically accurate information.

Fifty-two percent of Clark County’s population is minority. The highest teen pregnancy rates are among African-Americans and Latino and Hispanic cultures. Our youth deserve to know the facts to make healthier choices and be safe.

I respect that people have varied morals and beliefs about sex education, as I have my own. However, we need more efforts to educate teens in our community, so that they can make better decisions. The schools must update their curriculum and ensure all information given to our youth is accurate. It will remain my job to merge that information with my beliefs and values to my child.

Nevada has one of the highest teen birth rates in the nation. Social growth can only take place when education is accurately provided in and out of the classroom.

TAMIKA M. SHAUNTEE-ROSALES

LAS VEGAS

Deceptive legislation

To the editor:

Jonathan Gruber, and MIT professor and economist, proclaimed with glee how the Affordable Care Act was passed and implemented through deception (“Health care law figure stirs GOP,” Nov. 13 Review-Journal). Several members of Congress and pundits alike expounded, in contorted fashion, the necessity of duplicity because we citizens lack the capacity to grasp their wisdom.

As intelligent as Mr. Gruber professes to be, I hope he is able to understand how dangerous his process becomes. By his method and depending on whom is elected, legislation could be passed favoring one race over another, rich over poor, greed over need, profit over environment, or even men over women.

We the people vote to be represented in a manner that preserves our welfare and our nation. We need accurate, honest information to hold up our end. It is incumbent upon elected officials to render this information succinctly and timely. If you are unable to explain legislation to us, you most likely do not comprehend it yourself.

TOM HOOVER

LAS VEGAS