LETTER: Compassion and the homeless in Las Vegas

Donna Coleman Henderson

May 25, 2023 - 9:01 pm

A homeless individual takes a nap beside some possessions below the Flamingo Road overpass on Tuesday, May 14, 2019, in Las Vegas. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @Left_Eye_Images

I don’t believe that Ron Moore’s Sunday commentary saying society hates the homeless is true. Millions of dollars and volunteer hours are spent every year addressing the homeless problem. I believe society has run out of ideas and is puzzled about a problem that seemingly has no fix. Throwing money at the problem doesn’t work, handing out tents and drugs doesn’t work, outlawing the problem doesn’t work. I believe the problem has grown and so has our tolerance levels.

LETTER: A teachable moment on the U.S. debt

David Beerman North Las Vegas

May 30, 2023 - 9:01 pm

Thank you to Richard Strickland, whose May 26 letter to the Review-Journal about the federal debt provides a teachable moment for all of us.

LETTER: Two Las Vegas DUIs, two radically different sentences

Ken Catron North Las Vegas

May 30, 2023 - 9:01 pm

Marco Benitez gets rightfully sentenced to 16 to 40 years for killing someone while driving drunk when Henry Ruggs gets only three years for the same crime?