In response to your Thursday article, “Lawmaker wants Nevadans to buckle up or get a ticket”: I think lawmakers need to focus more on texting/facebooking/tweeting drivers than on seat-belt use. The person not wearing a seatbelt is a himself. If he doesn’t want to buckle up, so what? The other drivers who can’t put their phones down are a danger to everyone around them.
I found Tom Conlin‘s Thursday letter to be ridiculous. It was an exercise in justifying gross benefits for life at the expense of the taxpayer.
The Nevada Commission on Judicial Discipline should fire Judge Erika Ballou, not suspend her.
I was shocked by our senators’ votes to march the government idiotically toward shutdown.
With a few budget “haircuts” here and there, the prospects of a balanced federal budget are much closer to reality. What a novel concept.
About the criticisms of the “please come to Nevada” campaign: What can a slogan, no matter how compelling or clever, do when the deck is stacked against us?
What I don’t get is why, with the water crisis, we continue to build around 12,000 new homes here in Las Vegas every year.
