It’s about garbage pickup, not recycling
To the editor:
Heaven forbid anyone express a negative opinion about the valley. Last year, someone wrote to complain that they had experienced auditory and sight-line problems during a production at the new Smith Center for the Performing Arts. Two days later came the obligatory “That’s not true!”
On Friday, letter writers Susan Casey and Peter Howe mocked those of us concerned about the reduced trash collection system proposed by Republic Services. They say it simplifies recycling, and that we’re complaining simply because we don’t know how to organize our refuse.
Our concern is not recyclables; our concern is maintaining decomposing waste products such as fruit/vegetable leavings and meat wrappings and byproducts in over-heated garages for longer periods of time, possibly causing health, vermin and odor issues.
There seem to be a lot of shills in the valley.
ALAN VAN EES
LAS VEGAS
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Big Trash
To the editor:
There have been many letters to the editor in recent weeks concerning the changes to trash pickup schedules proposed by Republic Services. Most of the writers see a negative impact if the changes become a reality. Some complain of smelly garbage resulting from once-a-week pickup, while others say the containers will be too large and cumbersome to lug around or store in their garages. Some complain that people might be put out of work.
I have noticed, however, that the single complaint that is almost universal with the naysayers is that Republic Services might make a profit by adopting weekly pickups of garbage and recycling.
OMG! Making a profit on the backs of the garbage generators! We must circle the wagons and protect our children from “Big Trash.”
BILL DIRKSE
LAS VEGAS
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Getting personal
To the editor:
I visited my cardiologist this past week and was given eight pages to fill out for personal information that ObamaCare now deems necessary. Apparently, my physician for the past 17 years needs the information to continue his excellent care. Most of the information was already in the history I gave on my first visit.
The one question that absolutely stumps me: “What language do you speak in your home?” What has that information to do with my heart problem? For that matter, what does “What is your ethnic background?” have to do with his diagnosis of my condition? I’m madder than a wet hen.
I answered the language question, English. I started laughing. Wouldn’t the English, who deny that we in the U.S. speak English, be appalled?
LOUISE G. FORTIER
LAS VEGAS
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Story about nothing
To the editor:
Sunday’s Review-Journal contained a headline, “IGT chief’s tie not shared,” referencing a $10 million purchase of a small social gaming technology company involving an investment bank that oversaw the purchase ... [where] Patti Hart’s husband is a top executive. The article in the Business section stated that under SEC regulations, public companies are required to disclose material transactions, “yet IGT did not disclose the $10 million purchase of San Francisco-based BringIt Inc., when the deal was completed” a year ago. All of this was obviously intended to imply that Patti Hart did something wrong.
The facts within the story, however, revealed that Patti Hart did in fact disclose everything about the $10 million BringIt deal to IGT’s board of directors, the only disclosure she was required to make. She and her husband went beyond this, excusing themselves from voting or participating in the transaction, because the size of the transaction was immaterial, the board decided a public disclosure was not necessary. An expert quoted in the article stated that the entire transaction was properly handled.
The story also referenced a “bitter proxy battle” heading into the March 5 annual shareholders meeting but said the BringIt deal hasn’t been brought up by either side. It appears, therefore, that the Review-Journal article was written with a single goal in mind: to create a controversy over nothing.
ALBERT G. MARQUIS
LAS VEGAS
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Party reconstruction
To the editor:
The more Americans come to see that Tea Party lawmakers are more interested in collecting their $174,000-plus annually while advocating not only the overthrow of the president, but the democracy that pays them, the more the GOP will continue to lose elections and any credibility it may still have.
There’s a lot more to “redefinition” than the lip service currently being offered by both Republican Party and Tea Party leaders. It’s called “reconstruction,” and that involves separation of two very different and incompatible philosophies of what America is and should continue to be.
DIANE KREMSER
LAS VEGAS
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Tired act
To the editor:
Caesars Entertainment put out a statement confirming the company is considering hiring Britney Spears as a Planet Hollywood headliner (Feb. 9 Norm Clarke column). If I were Caesars, I would think twice.
Ms. Spears was a lip-synching teeny-bopper star years ago. She was eye candy. Would adult audiences pay to see an over-the-hill bubble gummer pretend to sing songs?
What is it with these stars today? It’s all pretend talent, pumped up by smoke, mirrors and mixed music. It will be a sad day when Caesars hires such a tired act.
BRAD EVANS
LAS VEGAS
