LETTER: The problem with nuclear power as clean energy

Chip Henry Las Vegas

May 5, 2021 - 9:01 pm

Members of a congressional tour make their way through the south portal of Yucca Mountain near Mercury. (Chase Stevens Las Vegas Review-Journal) @csstevensphoto

In response to recent commentaries and editorials about climate change and nuclear power: Did we find a way to get rid of nuclear waste? There’s no need for Yucca Mountain or anything like it?

Seriously, how can we think nuclear is the answer when we have no solutions to the waste? We can always just ship it to another state and sweep it under the rug.

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?