LETTERS: Fremont Street a bad experience

On a recent Friday night visit to the Fremont Street Experience, the street was full of panhandlers and half-naked men and women. It's become a disgraceful circus atmosphere. I have lived here 38 years, and I have never seen such trash and disrespect for tourists and locals alike.

If I was a tourist I would not come back to Las Vegas. Where were Metro police officers? There weren't any to be seen. Come on, Mayor Carolyn Goodman, if you want this to be a great city and grow, clean up the streets. And the Clark County Commission should do likewise for the Strip. There is no excuse.

Once the tourists leave for another destination, they might not return.

Jack Rogers

Las Vegas

Malkin column

The Review-Journal absolutely did not err when it published Michelle Malkin's column on Planned Parenthood ("Paying price for abortion," July 22 Review-Journal). More articles like this need to be published on a regular basis, contrary to what Lori Ernsperger wrote in her letter ("R-J errs on Malkin," July 26 Review-Journal).

Ms. Malkin got it right when she wrote, "Hollywood couldn't conjure monsters this chillingly, banally evil." That's quite a statement when you consider Hollywood's imagination.

At the end of her commentary, Ms. Malkin writes, "When you've recovered from your nausea, ask yourselves this: What kind of country do we live in where law-abiding businesses are fined, threatened and demonized for refusing to bake gay wedding cakes, but barbaric baby butchers are hailed by feminists, Hollywood and a president who asked God to 'bless' them? God help us."

The problem is that we as a nation are not nauseated over the fact that more than 50 million unborn babies have been butchered since the Roe v. Wade decision. That's the truth about our country. All Americans should be sick over this national sin. And the fact that we as a nation are not sick over this answers Ms. Malkin's question about what kind of country we live in.

In the Bible's book of Genesis, the Lord said, "If I find 50 righteous people in Sodom, I will spare the whole place for their sake." I wonder how many of us are thanking the Lord, on a regular basis, for the 50 righteous people living in this country who are keepng the rest of us alive?

Dayne Baverman

Las Vegas

Growing pains

Twenty-five years ago, I asked, "When will the Henderson City Council slow down the growth rate?" Will it happen when all the right-hand lanes on the U.S. Highway 95 become the exit ramps? That came to pass, but it didn't slow the growth rate.

So today I ask, "When will the Henderson City Council and the Planning Commission stop the growth in Henderson?" Will it stop when the ill-lighted and dangerous Boulder Highway has traffic on it that rivals Eastern Avenue? Will it stop when Boulder Highway and other Henderson neighborhoods are lined with approved housing developments that look like Army barracks? Will it stop when every entrance and exit on its highways becomes a diverging diamond, as it has at Horizon Drive and U.S. 95? Wagon Wheel Drive and U.S. 95 is next, so get the crews ready.

Henderson used to be a nice town. Now it has all the problems of a big city. Just ask Mayor Andy Hafen, whose home was recently burglarized. Water issues are always ignored. Budget problems aren't solved by raising taxes and service fees.

More parks, more people and carpetbagging developers is not the formula for raising or keeping the quality of life. Maybe the City Council should ask Boulder City how it managed to limit growth all these years.

Frank R. Dinicola

Henderson

Net metering

As a solar panel owner, I read with great interest a recent article regarding net metering ("Agency proposes more net metering capacity," July 23 Review-Journal online). Several times, NV Energy was reluctant to raise its net metering cap because of the alleged subsidy that other ratepayers would have to pay.

I have to reiterate that NV Energy used ratepayer money to pay for a study done by an engineering firm out of San Francisco that stated the exact opposite — ratepayers do not subsidize those of us with solar panels. That's like saying the price of a gallon of gas is high and subsidized because of people who are driving around in electric-powered cars.

People using solar panels will not reduce demand for NV Energy, even if big users leave the grid. If all of a sudden, there was a mass exodus of consumers due to competition, there would be no need to raise rates. In fact, prices would magically drop, due to supply and demand.

Alise Bamforth

Las Vegas