Don’t worry, wild horses are doing just fine
To the editor:
Why would the Review-Journal perpetuate the dumb-down syndrome of Nevada?
First, you print the Wednesday letter from Connie Brady, who whines that the Bureau of Land Management is decimating our wild horse population by taking out 280 of 300.
Then, on Friday, you repeat this with a letter from Ron Moers agreeing with this woman and complaining that all we will have left are metal sculptures of horses along Interstate 15.
News flash:
In all of the western U.S. there are approximately 34,000 wild horses -- of which nearly half, or 16,000, are in Nevada. The range cannot support their rate of growth.
Thanks, Review-Journal. How many more uneducated Nevadans will read and believe that drivel in your letters to the editor section?
michael portch
Las Vegas
Two standards
To the editor:
Herman Cain is getting hammered by the press for some questionable things he may have done or said 10 years ago. George W. Bush had to account for a DUI from 30 years prior.
Thank God for our media. These guys have been exposed. Wait, I can't remember these same "journalists" asking then-Sen. Barack Obama in 2008 about his marijuana and cocaine usage as a young man, or about his friends and associates.
Shame on those journalists.
Richard Santa Maria
Las Vegas
Deserves protection
To the editor:
It was good news, especially for Northern Nevada, to read that our congressional delegation had united behind a bill to create the Pine Forest Range Wilderness Area (In Brief, Thursday Review-Journal).
And it would be great if they would do the same for an important piece of land in Southern Nevada.
There is a swath of protected land about 150 miles long, stretching across northern Arizona to the outskirts of Henderson. But there's a hole about 15 miles wide from the Arizona border to Lake Mead. It's called Gold Butte, and its cultural, historical and geological wonders make it more than worthy of protection, too.
It's past time to make Gold Butte a National Conservation Area and further protect several large deserving areas within it with a wilderness designation. In addition to helping protect the area, conservation area status would increase tourism and pump some extra dollars into our economy.
Tony Barron
Mesquite
DA out
To the editor:
While I commend Clark County District Attorney David Roger for the service he has given us so far, I am very unhappy that he has decided to leave office only one year into his third four-year term. We elected him for a full term or close to it, not just a year.
It would be different if he were ill or needed to spend more time with family, but he is just leaving for another job -- and, therefore, I feel he misled voters when he ran for a four-year term without mentioning that he might not complete it if re-elected.
Now we'll get to have a political hack replace him, and we don't even know if the replacement will be temporary or permanent.
Apparently, in this case, we have a problem with another politician, even when he is doing a good job.
I am very disappointed that Mr. Roger has chosen to just leave his constituency by the wayside in order to pursue better personal options.
Rick Gordon
Henderson
Jobs plan
To the editor:
President Obama continues to push his American Jobs Act as a good deal for the U.S. taxpayer. He was going to fix our highways, bridges and infrastructure as part of the nearly trillion-dollar stimulus plan.
Oh my. His shovel-ready projects weren't as shovel ready as he thought.
Where did all that money go? How many jobs did it create? More recently, Mr. Obama's Energy Department gave $535 million to Solyndra to create green energy jobs. What a waste.
But again, $118 million was granted to Ener1 to build electric car batteries. The company stock was just de-listed by NASDAQ.
Fisker Auto received $529 million to build electric cars in the United States -- and then announced a move to Finland. So taxpayers are funding jobs in Finland?
Mr. Obama's jobs czar, Jeff Immelt, just moved a few thousand General Electric "medical products" jobs to China.
Just how much change can we afford?
Skip Blough
North Las Vegas
