LETTERS: Park-and-ride provides better solution
To the editor:
How about a park-and-ride system for getting visitors to the Strip, minus their cars? Provide free parking lots off roads leading to the Strip, with free buses taking visitors to their hotels. Perhaps these buses could be used on the Strip to take visitors from one hotel to another, even with a minimum charge, like a quarter or so.
Also, provide the same free buses on routes throughout the valley to bring workers and others to the Strip without their cars. They may enjoy not having to fight the traffic, the problems of looking for a parking spot and the savings associated with not using their cars every day.
These buses should be on the small side and be environmentally friendly, and they should run often. This system is used around Chapel Hill, N.C., where there is a large university with thousands of students, faculty and support personnel converging on a small town each day.
Park-and-ride sure beats an expensive mass transit system that will take years to build and would be even more costly to maintain.
DORIS BLUTH
LAS VEGAS
Watered-down thinking
To the editor:
In response to Michael Ritter’s letter on politicians’ lack of response to Lake Mead’s water levels (“Building freeze,” June 4 Review-Journal), once someone becomes a politician, all common sense flies out the window — followed closely by honesty and trustworthiness. You just have to figure out which candidate you think is the least corrupt before you vote. Good luck with that.
CLAUDIA HALL
LAS VEGAS
Private school funding
To the editor:
Gov. Brian Sandoval should be congratulated for recognizing the tremendous need for a boost in funding for Nevada’s public schools (“Governor signs education bills, declares state ‘at the bottom no more,’” June 4 Review-Journal). Hopefully the new initiatives will make a difference in getting and keeping qualified teachers, providing necessary encouragement, assistance, methodology and supplies to students, relieving overcrowded classrooms and improving the graduation rate.
However, there is absolutely no reason to supply funding to private schools in any category. Private schools should remain private, and parents who choose to send their children to private schools should be expected to pay unless they receive private grants or scholarships.
As a taxpayer, it is insulting for the state to support a private school when the public schools are in such dire need of help. Hopefully, you will rethink this “education initiative for a new Nevada.”
SHEILA MORSE
HENDERSON
Armed citizenry
To the editor:
President Barack Obama was recently discussing his legacy and mentioned that under his watch, the popularity of the U.S. has increased. I am not sure I believe that, nor do I think that accomplishment is very important. However, under the president’s watch, private gun ownership has soared because of the public’s distrust of the government.
Thomas Jefferson is credited with saying: “When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.” Maybe if more of the citizens of Ferguson, Baltimore and Cleveland had guns, there would have been less innocent people injured or killed in the hateful rioting.
MICHAEL ANTHONY
LAS VEGAS
