LETTER: The perfect crime, Republicans and greedy big business

Brian Terenzini Las Vegas

September 28, 2020 - 9:00 pm

Tilden Hooper makes his run during National Finals Rodeo in 2018, at Thomas & Mack Center, in Las Vegas. Benjamin Hager Las Vegas Review-Journal

I offer that it’s not the Democrat leadership in Nevada playing politics with the annual holiday influx of cowboys, but rather the cowboys and rodeo event organizers themselves.

They’ve been holding us hostage for years, threatening to move to Orlando just last year. I’m sure they were on the phone to Texas officials the minute the casinos closed in March.

COVID has provided the perfect cover for the perfect crime for so many Republican, big-business interests.

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?