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President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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LETTER: Film tax subsidies and other Nevada handouts
James O’Brien Las Vegas
March 30, 2020 - 4:46 pm
 

I was the former director of Emergency Management for Clark County (1989-2010). Whenever the local government cannot cope with an emergency, it declares an emergency and requests state resources. Similarly, the Nevada Division of Emergency Management, unable to assist, declares an emergency and places a request for assistance from the federal government. Those have happened in Nevada. The federal government declared an emergency.

Then, President Donald Trump said the states should find their own ways to obtain resources. That’s not how it works. Nothing but incompetence plagues this administration.

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LETTER: Film tax subsidies and other Nevada handouts
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History teaches us that the average age of the world’s greatest civilizations is about 200 years. So with our republic now going on about 250 years, perhaps there is reason for concern that we may be overdue for the end.

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Saints walk among us. Those who earned a Medal of Honor, Bronze Star, Silver Star or Purple Heart because they valued someone else’s life more than their own.

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